Job Description

Drive financial clarity, cost control, and performance transparency across a mission-driven investment group.


As

Senior Controller at Viessmann Generations Group

, you will play a key role in driving financial performance, ensuring cost efficiency, and enhancing reporting and control standards across the group. This is a pivotal position within the Holding team, offering exposure to a diverse portfolio of mission-driven businesses. You’ll act as a financial steward - balancing analytical depth with operational pragmatism - and help shape a robust, transparent, and value-creating finance function across multiple legal entities.

Viessmann Generations Group Overview

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As a globally active, independent family business in its fourth generation, we have been shaping living spaces for generations to come since 1917. Under the leadership of Max Viessmann, we pursue our mission with a long-term perspective and entrepreneurial spirit. Today, the Viessmann Generations Group supports over 30 mid-sized companies and family businesses across Europe and the US – all united by their active contribution to the energy transition. We invest capital, expertise, and passion in three core impact areas:

Climate

: Renewable energy, carbon reduction, and green infrastructure

Water

: Solutions for water scarcity, quality, and efficiency

Food

: Sustainable agriculture, supply chain innovation, and food technology

Our goal: to create impact – ecological, societal, and entrepreneurial.


The Viessmann Way supports how we work, lead, and create value together - whether as a team member, entrepreneur or partner in our ecosystem. It is not a rulebook, but a compass: a living set of principles shaped by over a century of entrepreneurship and guided by our long-term purpose.

The Opportunity

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This is a key opportunity to bring your finance expertise into a purpose-driven group environment. As Senior Controller, you will ensure cost transparency, data reliability, and reporting integrity across Viessmann’s growing portfolio. You’ll help strengthen internal controls, improve processes, and support senior decision-makers with accurate and timely financial insight. If you thrive in dynamic, multi-entity environments and bring a strong ownership mindset, this role offers meaningful responsibility and tangible impact.

Cost Management & Financial Stewardship

Identify, monitor, and reduce cost leakage across the group Lead cost control initiatives that protect margin and enhance long-term profitability

Process Optimization & Operational Efficiency

Streamline closing, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting cycles Enhance the speed, accuracy, and usability of financial data across the organization

Internal Control & Reporting Integrity

Strengthen compliance and internal control systems across group entities Ensure accurate, timely, and reliable reporting under IFRS and local GAAP

Systems Enablement & Automation

Drive the use of AI, digital tools and ERP systems (SAP S/4HANA) to enhance finance operations Leverage automation and reporting tools to support performance steering

Your Profile

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7-10+ years of experience

in controlling within a group, holding, or multi-entity structure

Business fluency in German and English

Degree

in Finance, Accounting, Controlling, or Business Administration; CIMA, CPA, ACCA, or Bilanzbuchhalter (IHK) is a plus Strong track record in

cost control, budgeting, and performance reporting in complex environments

Advanced skills in

ERP systems

(especially SAP S/4HANA); Power BI or similar

reporting tools

are a plus Proficient in IFRS and local GAAP reporting * High integrity, ownership mindset, and a collaborative approach to cross-functional teamwork