Job Description

What if you worked for a company that shares your ambitions and enables you to unlock your full potential?

A place where your boldest ideas become reality, where you can take on visionary challenges, push your limits, and deliver outstanding results.

As a 150-year-old family business with over 10,500 employees across 180 locations on 5 continents, the Umdasch Group fosters a performance-oriented environment where innovation thrives With our three divisions — Doka, umdasch The Store Makers,and umdasch Industrial Solutions — we’re shaping the future of construction, outfitting, and the operation of industrial plants driven by people who share our attitude. And there’s much more to come.

Join us and take your career to the next level.

• Development, governance, and continuous enhancement of group‑wide controlling and performance management governance, including KPIs, standards, and policies

• Overall responsibility for strategic financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and group‑wide management reporting

• Analysis and commentary on business performance at group level, including the derivation of steering measures and corrective actions

• Business partner to the Executive Board, CFO, and divisions; active support and constructive challenge of strategic and operational decision‑making processes

• Steering of investment, corporate cost, and overhead controlling at group level

• Leadership and/or coordination of group‑wide controlling projects and transformation initiatives (e.g., processes, systems, tools, digitalization)

• Ensuring a consistent, standardized, and business‑oriented group performance management model, in close alignment with Group Finance

Qualifications

• Completed degree in economics, business administration, or a related field, with a focus on Controlling, Finance, or comparable; additional professional qualifications are an advantage

• Several years of relevant professional experience in group/corporate controlling within an international corporate or consulting environment, including multiple years in a strategic and/or leadership role

• Strong expertise in group performance management, strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and management reporting

• Proven experience in designing and further developing group‑wide controlling governance structures, standards, processes, and steering models

• Distinct business partner profile with direct interaction with the Executive Board, CFO, and divisional management; ability to critically challenge business performance and decision‑making

• Experience in group‑wide transformation, optimization, and digitalization initiatives within a finance/controlling environment

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, combined with full professional proficiency in English; German is an advantage

Additional Information

• An attractive working environment within a successful, international family‑owned company

• Opportunities for personal and professional development within an experienced and highly motivated team

• A competitive, market‑aligned compensation package, commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications and professional experience

We are legally required to state a minimum salary.

The minimum annual gross salary for this position, based on the applicable collective agreement (wood‑processing industry), is EUR 62,388 (full‑time basis)