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Finance Business Controller (f/m/x)ZEISS · Aalen (bei Schwäbisch Gmünd)
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Finance Business Controller (f/m/x)

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-28 Aalen (bei Schwäbisch Gmünd) Full-time Hybrid Accounting
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market 8,000 EUR–10,000 EUR/mo

About the Company

ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. In the previous fiscal year, the ZEISS Group generated annual revenue totaling almost 12 billion euros in its four segments Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Industrial Quality & Research, Medical Technology, and Consumer Markets (September 30, 2025). For its customers, ZEISS develops, produces, and distributes highly innovative solutions for industrial metrology and quality assurance, microscopy solutions for the life sciences and materials research, and medical technology solutions for diagnostics and treatment in ophthalmology and microsurgery. The name ZEISS is also synonymous with the world's leading lithography optics, which are used by the chip industry to manufacture semiconductor components. There is global demand for trendsetting ZEISS brand products such as eyeglass lenses, camera lenses, and binoculars. With a portfolio aligned with future growth areas like digitalization, healthcare, and Smart Production and a strong brand, ZEISS is shaping the future of technology and constantly advancing the world of optics and related fields with its solutions. The company's significant, sustainable investments in research and development lay the foundation for the success and continued expansion of ZEISS' technology and market leadership. ZEISS invests 15 percent of its revenue in research and development - this high level of expenditure has a long tradition at ZEISS and is also an investment in the future. With over 46,600 employees, ZEISS is active globally in around 50 countries with more than 60 sales and service locations, around 40 research and development facilities, and 30 production facilities worldwide. Learn more about ZEISS: www.zeiss.com/about Data privacy: www.zeiss.com/data-protection Imprint: www.zeiss.com/publisher This is ZEISS's official LinkedIn account. It follows the ZEISS Netiquette: www.zeiss.com/netiquette Machinery Manufacturing Specialties: Optics, Optoelectronics and Precision Mechanics, Binoculars, Microscopy, Eyeglass Lenses, Biomedical Research, Medical Technology, Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, Nano Technology, Industrial Metrology, Camera and Cine Lenses, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Software Development

Responsibilities

  • ● Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That's just what our employees are doing every single day - in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people. In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together. Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow. Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity. Apply now It takes less than 10 minutes.
  • ● Your Role Act as key financial partner across project, commercial, and operational teams, by the financial steering of projects to ensure cost transparency and support commercial decisions. Global contact for selected operations and central functions. Define and steer financial scope, milestones, and targets together with project management. Prepare cost estimates and forecasts to enable decision-making and ensure financial transparency. Monitor actuals vs. plan, identify deviations, and drive corrective actions. Support and participate in commercial negotiations to align on project milestones and commercial coverage with customers. Ensure and track invoicing and revenue realization. Establish and align commercial and financial structures across stakeholders. Drive resolution of commercial topics with customers in collaboration with relevant functions. Define and structure scope, assumptions, cost structure, and pricing logic. Evaluate profitability, risks, and financial impact of scenarios. Integrate operational cost assumptions and target costing into evaluations. Prepare clear, management-ready business cases to enable decision-making. International controlling for selected operations or central functions. Contribute to and steer parts oft he SBU budgeting and forecasting processes. Analyze profitability drivers and deviations across projects and operations. Provide decision-relevant insights and recommendations to management by identifying cost optimization potentials and drive implementation together with operational stakeholders.
  • ● Your profile
  • ● Your Profile Professional Certification University degree in business administration with a focus on finance/controlling or a related field. At least 3 Years in controlling or related areas Experience in communicating with customers. Strong analytical abilities with strategic thinking and solution-oriented approach. Very good (English) communication skills across various departments and hierarchy levels.
  • ● Ronan McHugh