Senior Controller (m/f/d)

Aachen, Hybrid

Full or part-time

Permanent employee

Your mission

You build and develop plant and project controlling for our production sites and large-scale projects from the ground up, establishing suitable management logic, KPIs, standards, and processes.
You are responsible for budget planning and regular forecasting for our plants and large-scale projects, analyzing deviations and their operational causes, and deriving concrete actions.
You act as a trusted sparring partner for plant and project managers as well as the specialist departments, supporting them with well-founded analyses and clear recommendations for action.
You establish meaningful management reporting and prepare financial and operational data to provide management and specialist departments with a clear basis for decision-making.
Together with the specialist departments, you embed the controlling standards and processes you develop into day-to-day operations and ensure that they effectively support planning and management.
You actively contribute to cross-functional projects and, when required, take responsibility for sub-projects or lead projects end to end.

Your profile

You have a degree in business, economics, or a comparable field, with a focus on controlling, finance, or accounting.
You bring several years of professional experience in controlling and are confident in planning, forecasting, reporting, and variance analysis.
Experience in plant, production, or project controlling is a plus.
You have experience building controlling structures, processes, and KPIs and know how to establish them together with the specialist departments.
You quickly grasp complex production and project relationships and present financial and operational information in a clear, decision-oriented way.
You communicate clearly and appropriately for your audience and engage confidently with plant and project managers, specialist departments, and executive management.
You work independently, in a structured and solution-oriented manner. Even when managing several topics in parallel, you set clear priorities and keep the overarching objectives and relevant details in view.
You have very good knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with SAP R/3 or SAP S/4HANA is an advantage.
You communicate fluently in German and English.

Why us?

You take ownership from day one – after an intensive onboarding, you'll build something unique with us and shape outcomes with real impact on results.
You work on something that truly matters – with your contribution, you strengthen Europe's battery supply chains and make circular economy a reality on an industrial scale.
You're part of a mission-driven team – in a fast-paced scale-up environment, we live collaboration, because we can only move things forward together.
You work to the highest standards – we combine the professionalism of leading industry with the innovative power of a top-tier, research-driven technology team.
You grow with us – at cylib, you will do what is likely to be the most impactful work of your career and develop personally as we scale together.

About us

cylib is a German battery recycling company that emerged from research at RWTH Aachen University in 2022. With an integrated network of sites, we bring together research and development at our headquarters in Aachen, dismantling and mechanical processing in Wernberg-Köblitz, and hydrometallurgical processing in Dormagen (in ramp-up). Our goal: building a resilient European value chain through the recovery of high-quality materials for sustainable batteries.

With our innovative OLiC technology (Optimized Lithium and Graphite Recovery), we recover over 90% of the contained raw materials – with a CO₂ footprint that is 80% lower than conventional processes. Towards the realization of a true circular economy in the European market.

Interested?

Please upload your documents (a cover letter is not necessay) and answer the questions in the application form.

We look forward to receiving your application!