Manager Operational Controlling (m/f/diverse)

We are looking for an experienced Manager Operational Controlling!

In this role, you will be responsible for steering operational financial performance, ensuring transparency of costs, and supporting business leaders with data-driven financial insights. You will play a key role in financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and operational decision-making across the organization.

Tasks

• Manage operational controlling activities, including cost center controlling, cost tracking, and financial performance monitoring
• Review financial postings and initiate corrective actions where required
• Support accrual processes, forecasting activities, and workforce/FTE controlling

• Identify and drive cost optimization and efficiency improvement opportunities
• Coordinate and drive financial planning and forecasting processes
• Align planning assumptions with key stakeholders and ensure consistency across business areas
• Identify deviations, risks, and opportunities and recommend corrective actions
• Develop and manage operational budgets in alignment with business objectives
• Provide management with meaningful analyses and recommendations to support decision-making
• Help implement scalable structures aligned with global controlling and reporting requirements
• Act as a trusted business partner for managers, operational leaders, and finance stakeholders

*Perform all other duties assigned or delegated by supervisors

Requirements

• University degree in Finance, Controlling, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field
• 5-7+ years of experience in Controlling, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Performance Management, or a comparable Finance function

• Strong expertise in operational controlling, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management
• Experience working with financial KPIs, cost structures, and management reporting
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into business insights
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to work independently in a complex, international environment
• Very good English, both written and spoken
• Openness to international travel up to 30%

*CV/Resume required

*Must possess permit to work in Poland

The salary offer for this position will be presented after the interview stage, at the time of extending an employment offer, allowing sufficient time to review and discuss the proposed terms of employment and compensation.

About Lufthansa Group Business Services Sp. z o.o.

Lufthansa Group Business Services GmbH (LGBS) is a 100 per cent Lufthansa subsidiary. We offer shared services worldwide for the entire company in the areas of Finance, Business Intelligence & Transformation, Human Resources, Procurement and IT, which we provide or manage ourselves. It’s our goal to harmonize and standardize processes and to continuously make them more efficient and effective. We see ourselves as pioneers in digitization, as well as in the use and distribution of the latest technologies, for example in business process automation. As an internationally operating company, LGBS is represented at locations in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Krakow, Manila and Mexico City and manages BPO providers in Germany and abroad. With the global network of foreign representatives of the Lufthansa Group's field organization, we are also locally anchored and active worldwide.