Controlling Expert

Allianz Services is part of Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers and has succeeded in becoming one individual business segment by combining various businesses from different parent companies. Allianz Services is running service delivery operations in Romania, India, Mauritius and Morocco as well as is operating Consulting hubs in Germany, USA, Italy, France and Singapore with almost 6000 colleagues globally.

Allianz Services Romania has a key role in the transformation of the Group by improving operations and creating a superior experience for customers, offering actuarial, financial, IT, HR and governance services. Our team counts over 1000 passionate professionals whose main assets are the expertise and top qualifications, combined with multilingual skills, ranging from English, German, French and Italian, to Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian.  

At Allianz Services Romania, we aim to attract best talents and create an inspiring environment for our people to develop, while unceasingly caring for our community and for shaping a better future together!

Job role

The Controlling Expert role contributes to forecast, plan, and analysis of the financial performance of the company, supports decision making by providing useful and relevant information to senior leadership and the board of directors in driving and managing the business assuring the strategic objectives of the business through evaluation of business cases.

What you will do

• Production of monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc management reporting;
• Deliver financial and strategic planning, forecasting and reporting, working closely with senior management
• Compare historical results against forecasts, and perform variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward
• Proactively steering the P&L and cost measures
• Check external providers contracts and assure proper invoicing as per the contractual clauses as well as invoice approval and payment. Constant communication with providers to identify potential risk and avoid delays in payments
• Production of financial reports to the Executive Committees
• Controlling activities – bookings check, follow-up with CCs owners, analysis of HR and workplace costs and time tracking
• Ad-hoc reporting and financial presentations - provide regular reports with gap analysis, comments for different type of bookings and compensations between CCs or any other financial related information used in business decisions.
• Creating process documentation

What you bring

• At least 3 years of relevant work experience in Controlling in an international environment
• University Degree (preferably Business Administration, Economics or Finance)
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Excel-create dashboards, pivot, financial formulas, PowerPoint)
• Profound knowledge of SAP (SAP CO and FI, SAP BO, SAP BW)
• Fluent English written and spoken (Additional languages preferred)
• Knowledge of Ariba and Service Now is plus
• Self-manage multiple priorities, routine work and urgent issues; ability to drive initiatives forward.
• Independent working, proactive person able to identify the risk and proactively came up with solutions, details oriented mindset, driver of discussions.
• Clear understanding of key business processes and strategic goals; anticipate the impact of economic and market trends

You have

• Independent and intrinsically motivated; strong organizational skills with ability to work on own initiative; adaptable.
• Excellent analytical skills, critical thinking, technical excellence, attention to detail, pragmatic.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, particularly in communicating complex and interdependent topics; fluency in written and spoken English.
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills; collaborative leadership.
• Strong judgement, investigation skills and quantitative and analytical skills.
• Clear and comprehensive understanding of the regulatory and legal environment.
• Conduct to be honest, ethical and to act with integrity.

What we offer

Come to the Allianz side! We have attractive compensation and incentives:

• Fixed salary compensation along with fixed benefits.
• Flexible benefits that can be individually customized, so that they best suit your needs.

Fixed Benefits - We place people at the core of what we do, this is why we are committed to your personal wellbeing and professional growth.

• Additional vacation days (work tenure, Allianz tenure, special events, Paid day for child medical check-up)
• Rewards and Recognition Program (Team Excellence Award, Anniversary Awards, Above & Beyond Awards, Thank you for your contribution!)
• Complete training curricula available (tailored courses): International Certifications (Agile, Lean Six Sigma, Prince, ITIL, IFOA, ACCA, IACCM etc.), Comprehensive Leadership Programs, LinkedIn Learning, German Language Courses for any level
• All you can read with Bookster
• Share Purchase Plan
• Allowances for special events (Birth Allowance, Losing a Family Member)
• Flexible working environment (work from home, hybrid)

FlexiBenefits - We care about the performance of our employees and we know it can only be reached by ensuring your proper work-life balance: Medical services , Private pension, Internal Tourism, Meal Tickets and many other benefits of your choice.

The personal information that you may provide to us (including sensitive information) may be provided to Hiring Managers for the purposes of assessing your suitability as a candidate.

Only suitable candidates will be contacted. All applications will be treated with confidentiality.

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

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