Controlling Team Manager

Leadership of Controlling & Commercial Topics: You will lead and coordinate the Controlling & Commercial Topics team for Bosch Rexroth Blaj, ensuring transparency, reliability, and business-oriented decision support across all relevant financial and commercial processes.
End-to-End Controlling Process Ownership: You will take full responsibility for ensuring the complete controlling process flow, including planning, forecasting, reporting, monthly closing support, cost center controlling, product costing, variance analysis, and management reporting. You will make sure that controlling processes are executed reliably, accurately, and in line with Bosch Rexroth standards.
Business Partnering for Manufacturing and Operations: You will act as a close business partner for production, logistics, engineering, purchasing, and plant management. You will support operational decision-making by translating financial figures into actionable insights and by proactively identifying risks, opportunities, and improvement measures.
Performance and Cost Management: You will monitor and steer financial performance for the assigned Business Units, including manufacturing costs, productivity, overheads, investments, inventories, and profitability. You will challenge deviations, initiate countermeasures, and support the achievement of financial and operational targets.
Potential Growth Opportunity - Commercial Sales Controlling: In addition to the core factory-focused controlling responsibilities, the role may be expanded to include the commercial sales controlling scope as a further growth opportunity for the position, depending on the candidate's experience, development, and readiness. This additional scope may be transferred directly or developed step by step and includes overseeing, training, and steering commercial sales activities from a financial and process perspective, such as credit management, invoicing processes, commercial sales support, customer-related financial topics, and commercial steering of the sales team. You will ensure that these processes are executed professionally, efficiently, and in compliance with internal guidelines.
Team Coordination in a Broad and Complex Task Environment: You will coordinate a small team with a high variety of responsibilities, including BU Business Partner controlling, back-office controlling support, commercial activities, reporting, and process-related topics. The complexity of the role requires strong prioritization, clear task allocation, and the ability to balance operational details with management-level steering.
Student Development and Talent Pipeline: You will oversee, train, and develop working students supporting the controlling and commercial team. These students are an important source for future controllers and must be guided, coached, and prepared to successfully grow into more advanced responsibilities, especially when existing team members move into further development opportunities.
People Development and Succession Planning: You will actively support the development of team members and future talents by building know-how, ensuring knowledge transfer, and creating structured learning opportunities. A key part of the role is to strengthen the long-term stability and capability of the controlling organization.
Stakeholder Management: You will work closely with local and international stakeholders, including Business Unit representatives, plant management, sales, finance, logistics, central functions, and external interfaces where required. The position requires excellent communication skills, strong business understanding, and the ability to handle different stakeholder expectations professionally.
Process Improvement, Digitalization and SAP S/4HANA Implementation.
Education: Completed University Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Controlling, Economics, Industrial Engineering, or a comparable qualification.
Experience & Expertise:
Romanian certified accountant qualification would be considered an advantage. Several years of professional experience in controlling finance, accounting, or commercial functions within an international manufacturing environment.
Proven leadership experience with responsibility for teams and talent development.
Strong understanding of manufacturing controlling, product costing, budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance management.
Experience working with SAP and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, SQL, BW, Excel-based analytics).
Knowledge of investment controlling, business case evaluation, and commercial processes.
Work Style:
Structured, analytical, and result-oriented working approach.
Strong decision-making capability based on facts and financial analysis.
High degree of ownership and accountability.
Comfortable working in a lean and agile organization with short decision paths, a low-hierarchy culture, and a strong focus on pragmatic collaboration.
High degree of flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic environment where structures, priorities, and responsibilities evolve continuously.
Other Soft Skills:
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to influence cross-functional teams and challenge business decisions constructively.
Strong customer and business orientation combined with a collaborative leadership style.
Open, hands-on leadership mindset with the willingness to empower others, work across organizational boundaries, and support change without relying on traditional hierarchical structures.
Languages:
​​​​​​​Advanced Level of English and Romanian.

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Hybrid