Business Controller (f/m/d)

Your Area of Work

Financial Planning & Analytics is responsible for the financial steering of the Clearstream Business Segment, including financial strategy, budget planning, reporting, forecasting and analysis of financial data to provide management insights and support informed decision-making. The team develops financial models and business cases, conducts financial risk assessments and collaborates with various departments to optimize financial performance and ensure steering to target in line with the Group/Clearstream strategy, on both an annual and mid‑term horizon.

Your Responsibilities 

You will be responsible for the end‑to‑end financial management of these legal entities, with a strong focus on legal entity performance, governance and transparency.

• Financial Reporting: Lead the preparation, consolidation and presentation of monthly legal-entity financial reports for the Executive Boards and extend this reporting to the Supervisory Boards on a quarterly basis, ensuring accuracy, clarity and regulatory compliance.
• Performance Analysis: Perform in depth analysis of the entities’ financial statements, with particular emphasis on actuals vs. budget, trend analysis and key performance drivers, to monitor performance and explain variances.
• Intercompany Transaction Management: Oversee and monitor all intercompany revenues and expenses affecting the legal entities to ensure accuracy, proper allocation of costs and income, and correct reflection in the statutory and management accounts.
• Budget and Forecasting: Manage the annual legal-entity budget process, cascading targets from Group budget planning, and prepare regular full year P&L forecasts for each entity to support forward looking steering and capital allocation.
• Stakeholder Support: Act as the primary finance contact for all legal-entity related finance topics, providing proactive support and guidance to internal stakeholders, including Executive and Supervisory Boards, and ensuring alignment between legal-entity financials and overall Group strategy.
• BAU Cost Management (Clearstream Securities Services): Cost Management of OPEX costs in Clearstream Securities Services areas including involvement in monthly closing process and monthly actuals vs. budget analysis to track performance against financial plans and deliver monthly reports to all areas, ensuring full transparency and providing stakeholders with the data needed to manage their operational expenses effectively.
• Active development and further enhancement of the existing financial (SAP based) reporting; Dashboard  maintenance and development based on Power BI; Participation in the implementation of new controlling requirements

Your Profile 

• University degree in business administration and/or comparable education
• At least 3-5 years work experience in Controlling and Financial Reporting
• Strong communication skills – written and verbal, ability to communicate effectively across all seniority levels, in English. German and/or French in addition would be an advantage
• Demonstrated ability to: prioritize competing responsibilities, work under pressure, meet challenging deadlines and capability to build and maintain effective business relationships
• Excellent analytical and technical skills, and proficiency in use of MS Office, SAP and front-end reporting tools e.g. Analysis for Office
• Strong knowledge and understanding of accounting principles and financial concepts
• Persuasive, independent and accurate way of working with a proactive structured approach
• High degree of flexibility and willingness to work on site