General Information

Country Spain

City El Masnou

Functional Area Finance

Job Group Finance

Employment Type Permanent Contract

Working time Full-time

At its locations around the world, Siegfried offers employees exciting career opportunities in international settings. We cultivate multidisciplinary cooperation and encourage our staff to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, coupled with our dynamic working environment, make Siegfried an attractive employer.

Your role

Position Purpose: 

Corporate Controlling Function (global role) is providing data for analysis of different functions in the whole Siegfried Group to the Senior Management and ExeCom. This includes reporting based on monthly, budget, forecast figures or ad hoc analysis and consolidating such financial statements and figures.

Besides reporting the main purpose is derivating recommendations to the Senior Management and ExeCom related to steering relevant figures. This includes managing Processes Standardization & Automatization in the group wide ERP, maintaining the Controlling Group Manual, leading the group wide Budget process incl. budgeting the global functions, aswell as monitoring group targets.

Implementation of Standards & Processes within SAP S4 and to analytics tools (Super user Function) incl. managing changes into the organization is another important role of the corporate controlling.

Major Accountabilities:


Providing general standard reporting's in Actuals, Budget, Forecast incl. ad hoc analysis on a consolidated group level and scenario calculations and key figure analysis

Improve automatization and standardization of reporting processes group-wide

Support local site controlling incl. troubleshooting as well as testing of changes in SAP as Corporate User in CO Modul for S4Hana & SAP R3

Support the team in the maintenance of the group controlling manual, ensure accurate application of these guidelines in the sites by training, instructions and monitoring

Supporting the group-wide planning process

Budgeting and monitoring of global cost centers

Derivation of recommendations for action to the management, by preparing adequate presentations and leading such presentation meetings

Contributing to Corporate Projects as project member for Corporate Controlling or leading corporate controlling specific projects


Your profile

·       Education:

Bachelor in Business administration

or min 5 years professional experience in Controlling

·       Languages:

Business fluent in English and fluent in Spanish,

additionally German and/or French are a plus

·       Experience:

Production / Manufacturing Controlling min 3 years

Corporate/Functional Controlling min 1-3 years

Experience with SAP S4 roll-outs or similar

Professional with Excel / BI / analytical tools

Basic knowledge in Accounting

·       Competences:

Good knowledge of relevant software solutions (e.g. SAP and MS Office)

Knowledge of modern controlling instruments and controlling structures

Strong analytical thinking skills

Strives to simplify and make things simple and clear results

Team worker

Ability to lead multidisciplinary meetings

Open and transparent communication, easy to interact with different departments and cultures, also work interactive between sites and Corporate Headquarter in Zofingen

Willing to travel to Headquarter or other sites



Working at Siegfried

Siegfried's work environment is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried possesses a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to create a competitive advantage. Siegfried places highest priority on providing a flexible, diverse and discrimination-free working environment in which employees can develop personally and professionally, advance innovation and deliver superior performance. We strive to provide a work environment where employees can take on challenging jobs and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and technical development and can benefit from the success of our company. The company regulations in respect of compensation and career development opportunities apply to all Siegfried sites. Additional conditions of employment are governed by location-specific circumstances, legislation and customs.

Who we are

In the Midst of People’s Lives – Across the Globe

The Siegfried Group is one of the world’s leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) developing and producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), intermediates and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical capabilities into a single business model. 

The Siegfried name stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility and safety. Present in Europe, Asia and North America, we serve a broad global customer base from major international pharmaceutical companies down to small biologic-pharmaceutical organizations. For them we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale to finished products. We integrate our offer seamlessly into the customers’ value chain. Our comprehensive services range from early-stage Research & Development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies and method development all the way through to manufacturing services, ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production. 

We are able to produce about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drug substances used in medicine. Moreover, we produce 20 percent of global demand for caffeine. Consequently, nearly 1 billion individuals come into contact with Siegfried products.

What we do in El Masnou

Bulk manufacturing and packaging of sterile ophthalmic products including eye drops, eye ointments, otic / nasal sprays