You have a choice of where you want to work! We invite you along on our journey to Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. We aim to attract, retain, and energize passionate people, like you, by investing in your professional development and providing opportunities for personal growth.
Do your values align with ours? Accountability, Growth mindset, One team, Care and a fair and inclusive work environment for everyone, everywhere!
We strive to meet the highest standards of corporate citizenship by protecting the health and safety of our team, safeguarding the environment, and creating a long-lasting, positive impact on the communities where we do business. Are you with us?!?

Do you enjoy working with various controlling team members in a fast-paced, global company with a purpose of building more sustainable world? Would you like to work in a dynamic and lean team of global professionals? If you answered yes, we have an opportunity for you.

We are looking for a Plant Controller to strengthen our team!

In this role as a Plant Controller, you will be responsible of:

• Providing relevant, timely and accurate support and proactively challenge the organization to execute the strategy while always maintaining integrity

• Managing all activities necessary in the to work in the accounting department in a safe, efficient, cost-effective and environmentally compliant manner

• Meeting safety, quality and cost targets

• Developing leadership and competencies of the accounting team

• Ensuring the right resources to achieve an efficient accounting organization

• Driving continuous improvement efforts

We can offer you:

• A position in a truly global company – with some 7,000 employees spread across 37 worldwide locations
• Competitive salary
• Smart and Diverse Work opportunities
• A variety of local benefits based on job location
• A friendly and open team

We are looking for a Plant Controller who is able to:

• Lead and develop the Controlling and accounting team
• Apply standard costing and cost center accounting group principles
• Financial and operational reporting according to deadlines
  
  • to support working capital management (inventories, Accounts payables, Accounts receivables)
  • to analyze and report the total result of the plant
  • monthly/quarterly reporting
• Annual financial statements according to IFRS and HGB together with auditors
  
  • Key contact to the local auditors
  • responsible of the local Treasury issues
  • to be the contact person for the legal issues of the respective country
  • to be responsible that the statutory reporting is done according to the existing rules
  • responsible for local tax audits involving also Group Tax Manager
• Manage product and customer profitability
• Be responsible for Credit Management work
• Make variance analysis
• Subsidies /refund local filing
• Make Planning / forecasting
• Provide investment analysis, including actual pay-back of closed projects
• Cost savings follow-up
• Monitor group policies and make sure they are met
• Best practice sharing
• Identify potential area for improvement
• Inform about potential risks and propose mitigations
• Support the plant management

Competencies required in the job:

• Expenditure and cost accounting
• Management reporting
• Performance management
• Driving results for value
• Services orientation
• To be an active part of local team
• Actively communicate and interact with local team (both ways: provide and challenge)
• Result oriented
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Challenge status quo Transparency
• Business understanding
• Accounting competencies
• Common sense

Experience and Education needed:

• Knowledge of IT systems (SAP/HFM/SAGE), Operation processes (LEAN, Cost trackers, KPI) and Standard costing
• High level of initiative and independence in managing responsibilities
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to details
• Language skills in English and German
• From 3-5 years of experience as Controller or Leader of Accounting
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you! Please submit your application ASAP.

Ahlstrom is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal opportunity is a sound and just concept to which we are firmly bound. Ahlstrom will not engage in discrimination against, or harassment of, any person employed or seeking employment with our company based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, non-disqualifying disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.

About Us. Ahlstrom is a global leader in combining fibers into sustainable specialty materials. Our purpose is to Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. Our vision is to be the Preferred Sustainable Specialty Materials Company for all our stakeholders.
Our three divisions, Filtration and Life Sciences, Food and Consumer Packaging, and Protective Materials, address global trends with safe and sustainable solutions. Our net sales in 2023 amounted to EUR 3.0 billion and we employ some 7,000 people, 70 in Bärenstein plant.
Learn more at www.ahlstrom.com
Ahlstrom’s manufacturing and hygiene processes, procedures and policies, must be adhered to, as applicable, to the position’s areas of responsibility, in order to meet and maintain the safety, quality, and regulatory compliance requirements for each grade of paper.