[Hiring] Analyst: Controlling Finance Business Partner @HARMAN International

Role Description

The Engineering Controller Analyst is responsible for all Engineering cost related topics of the Business Unit. The role acts as a trusted Finance Business Partner to Engineering leadership, ensuring full cost transparency, robust financial governance, and proactive steering of cost performance. The position requires a highly motivated, high-performing individual with the drive to take accountability, challenge the status quo, and actively influence management decisions.

What You Will Do

• Cost Analysis, Deviation Management & Executive Communication
  • Enable and support cost transparency across internal resources, externals, and project spend.
  • Perform deep-dive variance analyses (actual vs. plan / forecast).
  • Present results and explain to senior management, including root-cause analyses and corrective actions.
• Cost Improvement & Performance Steering
  • Proactively suggest, align and support cost improvement and efficiency measures across SBU-IC Engineering organization.
  • Challenge Engineering teams on cost drivers, efficiency, and resource utilization.
  • Track effectiveness of cost actions and ensure sustainable savings.
• Business Partnering & Leadership Interaction
  • Act as a strong, credible Finance Partner to managers, project leads, and leadership.
  • Influence decisions by combining financial rigor with a pragmatic business mindset.
  • Support strategic initiatives, business cases, and change requests with clear financial impact.
• Financial Planning, Forecasting & Governance
  • Drive annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, and outlook updates for area of responsibility.
  • Regularly review and challenge cost structures and related assumptions.
  • Identify financial risks and opportunities early and ensure proper escalation.
• Reporting, Tools & Process Improvement
  • Prepare monthly Controlling reports with clear narratives.
  • Continuously improve Finance processes, reports, and planning tools.
  • Actively contribute to automation, standardization, and best practice sharing.

Qualifications

• Strong full-cycle ownership and accountability mindset.
• Highly motivated, high performer with the ambition to drive results.
• Ability and pleasure to drive topics forward, even in challenging environments.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to simplify complexity.
• Strong Executive communication skills – confident, fact-based, and solution-oriented.
• Very good Excel skills: ERP experience (SAP preferred).

Requirements

• Degree in Finance, Controlling, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or similar.
• 2–3 years of Controlling / Finance experience.
• Proven exposure to budgeting, forecasting, and cost performance tracking.
• Business-fluent English.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location.
• Access to employee discounts on world-class products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, and more).
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.
• Competitive wellness benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.