Senior Controller - Holding & Group Controlling (m/f/d)

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

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

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 according to our six performance dimensions

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

• 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 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 applying accounting standards

• High integrity, ownership mindset, and a collaborative approach to cross-functional teamwork