SiteControllingManager(f/m/d)

**Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!** # Responsibilities: **Freudenberg Performance Materials** is a leading global provider of innovative technical textiles and a pioneer in nonwovens, serving diverse industries with high‑performance material solutions. In this role, you will act as our General Industry finance business partner - creating transparency, steering performance, and enabling fact-based decisions across a complex stakeholder landscape. * **Transparency:** Build confidence in the numbers through reliable reporting, strong data discipline, and clear financial narratives stakeholders can act on. * **Steering:** Identify cost drivers and profitability levers, translate analysis into decision options, and drive performance improvement. * **Cross-Functional Partnering:** Act as a trusted sparring partner to site leadership, constructively challenging priorities, investments, and assumptions anchored in sound business logic. * **Alignment:** Bridge site realities with BU/global expectations; ensure consistent financial logic, assumptions, and shared understanding across interfaces. * **Judgment:** Navigate tension and conflicting priorities with neutrality and maturity - knowing when to push and when to harmonize to protect business performance. # Qualifications: **Qualifications** * Academic background in controlling, finance, business administration, or a comparable qualification. * Several years of controlling/finance experience in a manufacturing environment; strong budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis foundation. * Solid ERP/SAP controlling and reporting/analytics exposure; strong standard costing and financial close understanding. * **Languages:** English and German languages; both written and spoken **Skills for success in this role** * Stakeholder influence & business partnering (earn buy‑in without authority). * Neutrality, integrity & judgment in complex / political environments. * Business acumen & value orientation (translate