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With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and process control solutions, ZEISS enables the production of ever smaller, increasingly powerful, and more energy-efficient microchips, and thus plays a pivotal role in the age of micro- and nanoelectronics.\nWe are looking for a Senior Product Controller (f/m/x) to join our team in Oberkochen.\nYour Role\nAs Finance Business Partner, you are an important sparring partner to business leaders, co-creating their strategy to shape the financial performance of their product portfolio.\n\nConsulting Commercial Topics: you provide strategic guidance to your product area on key commercial questions, identify economic opportunities, optimization potential, and risks, and translate this into decision-ready recommendations and actionable plans.\n\nProduct Cost Controlling: you collaborate with product managers to define target costs, track adherence, and deliver cost transparency for established products and new product introductions.\n\nBusiness Planning: you create, validate, and monitor business plans and present them convincingly to our internal management and external partners.\n\nPerformance Controlling & Better Insights: you create and further develop meaningful ad hoc and monthly reports to support our product management with clear analyses, comments, and impulses for business steering.\n\nProcess Design & Governance: in close collaboration with our operational controlling team and accounting, you ensure adherence to internal commercial governance requirements and applicable international accounting standards. 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