Senior HR Controller - REF5248E

Ranked as Hungary’s most attractive employer in 2025 (according to Randstad’s representative survey), Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions is a subsidiary of the Deutsche Telekom Group. The company provides a wide portfolio of IT and telecommunications services with more than 5300 employees. We have hundreds of large customers, corporations in Germany and in other European countries.

DT-ITS recieved the Best in Educational Cooperation award from HIPA in 2019, acknowledged as the the Most Ethical Multinational Company in 2019. The company continuously develops its four sites in Budapest, Debrecen, Pécs and Szeged and is looking for skilled IT professionals to join its team.

The Role

As Senior HR Controller for Group People Development, you will take full ownership of financial and workforce planning, forecasting, budget and FTE steering  for HR initiatives. You will act as a strategic advisor to the Leadership Team, ensuring transparency on costs, investments, and enabling fact-based decision making.

This role combines strong HR controlling, workforce planning, and financial steering expertise with stakeholder management at senior level. You will proactively shape workforce and cost-related measures, challenge assumptions, and ensure that investments in people development generate measurable business value.

Your Responsibilities

• Own workforce planning and FTE steering, including forecasting, tracking, and alignment with business and financial targets.
• Own and drive planning, forecasting, and active budget steering of HR initiatives and investments.
• Analyze monthly results, identify deviations and financial risks, and drive concrete corrective actions.
• Steer cost efficiency and savings initiatives in close alignment with Leadership and Project Leads.
• Act as key interface between HR and Finance, challenging assumptions and ensuring alignment of workforce and financial planning.
• Prepare decision-ready insights, recommendations, and steering options for senior leadership.
• Ensure accurate closing activities (accruals, provisions) in line with corporate standards.
• Improve transparency through dashboards, FTE KPIs, and structured reporting.

Optional Role Enrichment

• Support selected organizational development and transformation initiatives with structured planning, budget transparency, and implementation tracking.
• Contribute to the preparation and orchestration of key leadership and people development formats (e.g., strategy workshops, learning events, kick offs).
• Help translate strategic people priorities into actionable roadmaps with financial clarity and measurable outcomes.

• University degree in HR Controlling/Finance, Workforce Planning, FP&A with HR focus, or a comparable field.
• Strong experience in FTE planning, headcount steering, and personnel cost management.
• Solid background in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Good understanding of HR processes and their financial impact.
• Experience working with senior HR stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to turn data into clear recommendations.
• Structured, proactive, and ownership-driven working style.
• Fluent in English (German is a plus).

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Hungary due to European taxation regulation.