Manager, Planning & Performance Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• In the role of Manager Planning & Performance Management (m/w/d), you will play a key role in enhancing corporate controlling for our clients.

• You will serve as a seasoned player-coach, leveraging your in-depth subject-matter expertise to take on the following exciting responsibilities:

• Subject-matter consulting & conceptual design: You will strategically and technically advise our clients on the design and optimization of their planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

• Solution design for SAC Planning & BI: You will create and implement forward-thinking planning applications using SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for Planning, alongside advanced BI solutions to facilitate decision-making.

• Project leadership & business acquisition: You will win and lead complex client projects from requirements analysis and conceptual design to successful go-live, actively contributing to implementation and configuration.

• Team building & development: You will assume technical leadership and cultivate our consulting team in the Planning & Performance Management domain, mentoring talent and ensuring their technical and methodological growth.

• Presales & business development: You will actively participate in presales initiatives and further enhance our service offerings related to corporate controlling and SAP Analytics Cloud.

• Networks & sales channels: You will forge new sales channels in collaboration with prominent partners such as SAP, DSAG, or industry associations and maintain these relationships.

• Knowledge multiplier & expert: You will position yourself and nfaculty as thought leaders in Planning & Performance Management by creating and delivering technical presentations, webinars, and training sessions.

• Career perspective: You will have a clear opportunity to advance to a Director role with extensive responsibilities, including commercial aspects.

⛳️ Requirements

• A completed university degree – your specific field of study is less important than your demonstrated expertise.

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience with strong knowledge in corporate controlling, financial planning, or corporate governance – ideally gained from consulting or a line role.

• Strong knowledge and practical project experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (particularly SAC Planning) and/or other relevant planning and BI tools (e.g., SAP Business Warehouse, Power BI, Tagetik, Board).

• A solid understanding of finance- and controlling-related processes in SAP S/4HANA.

• A strong grasp of business processes, KPI frameworks, and contemporary methods of corporate planning and performance management.

• Familiarity with the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) is a significant advantage.

• Initial experience in providing technical guidance to teams or leading (sub)projects, along with the ambition to build and develop a team.

• Strong customer orientation, communication, and presentation skills that enable you to act as a trusted advisor and interlocutor with business units and management.

• An entrepreneurial mindset, initiative, a hands-on approach, and the motivation to make a significant impact in a newly established company.

• Fluent in German and English (each at least C1 level).

• Willingness to travel for client-specific workshops, team events, and internal meetings (your home base is remote).

🏝️ Benefits

• Scope for initiative: The unique chance to help shape a young company from the ground up and implement your ideas.

• Responsibility & growth: Early responsibility in challenging corporate controlling projects and a clear development perspective in a growing market.

• Exciting projects & cutting-edge technology: Work with modern tools such as SAP Analytics Cloud and design innovative planning and BI solutions for our clients.

• Benefit from interactions with experienced colleagues.

• Technical depth: Leverage your solid expertise in controlling and planning to make a real impact and sustainably improve clients' processes.

• Flexibility & remote work: Enjoy a modern work culture with the ability to work predominantly remotely.

• Dynamic team: Be part of a small, experienced founding team and have the opportunity to build your own team.

• Attractive compensation package: Benefit from performance-based pay and participation in shared success.

• Collaborative culture: We value open exchange, pragmatism, and measurable added value – both internally and externally. You will shape solutions and be part of a team that drives projects to success.