Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!

Responsibilities:

Freudenberg Performance Materials is a leading global provider of innovative technical textiles and a pioneer in nonwovens, serving diverse industries with high‑performance material solutions.
In this role, you will act as our General Industry finance business partner - creating transparency, steering performance, and enabling fact-based decisions across a complex stakeholder landscape.

• Transparency: Build confidence in the numbers through reliable reporting, strong data discipline, and clear financial narratives stakeholders can act on.

• Steering: Identify cost drivers and profitability levers, translate analysis into decision options, and drive performance improvement.

• Cross-Functional Partnering: Act as a trusted sparring partner to site leadership, constructively challenging priorities, investments, and assumptions anchored in sound business logic.

• Alignment: Bridge site realities with BU/global expectations; ensure consistent financial logic, assumptions, and shared understanding across interfaces.

• Judgment: Navigate tension and conflicting priorities with neutrality and maturity - knowing when to push and when to harmonize to protect business performance.

Qualifications:

Qualifications

• Academic background in controlling, finance, business administration, or a comparable qualification.

• Several years of controlling/finance experience in a manufacturing environment; strong budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis foundation.

• Solid ERP/SAP controlling and reporting/analytics exposure; strong standard costing and financial close understanding.

• Languages: English and German languages; both written and spoken

Skills for success in this role

• Stakeholder influence & business partnering (earn buy‑in without authority).

• Neutrality, integrity & judgment in complex / political environments.

• Business acumen & value orientation (translate insights into outcomes).

• Strategic perspective and global mindset (connect site ↔ BU ↔ global).

• Clear, confident communication, able to simplify finance for non‑finance leaders.

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The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Freudenberg Performance Materials GmbH & Co. KG