Bewerbende mit Behinderungen erwünscht 👨‍🦽👨‍🦯🦻 Global Factory Costing Lead (m/f/d)

A Snapshot of Your Day
The position is critical for maintaining and enhancing the standardization, transparency, and efficiency of costing practices across a global network of factories. To achieve these objectives, this role focuses on three core areas: leading the governance and standardization of costing principles, driving process optimization through tool development and automation, and fostering a collaborative network through stakeholder management and knowledge sharing. This structured approach ensures alignment with corporate finance standards while addressing the specific operational needs of the factories. Given the focus on financial governance and process leadership, the ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in a finance or controlling role within a manufacturing environment. Key requirements include strong analytical capabilities, proven ability to influence a global network of stakeholders, and a degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Lead and govern global costing standards across Transformers and Switchgear factories, ensuring alignment with corporate accounting (SE AC).
• Build and maintain a strong global network of costing experts across clusters and factories.
• Ensure consistent application of factory costing principles through close collaboration with Cluster, Factory, and Execution Unit Management.
• Provide structured analysis and frameworks to assess and optimize resource allocation across the factory network.
• Develop, standardize, and implement tools and systems to enhance factory costing processes.
• Drive automation of annual costing budgets, actual reporting, and KPI generation.
• Analyze industry benchmarks to increase transparency and support data-driven optimization.
• Act as a trusted partner by delivering trainings, consulting stakeholders, and enabling best-practice and knowledge sharing globally.

What You Bring

• Master's degree in Finance, Economics, or a comparable field.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in finance or controlling within a manufacturing operations environment.
• Experience in advisory, compliance, or audit functions is a strong advantage.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities, including financial analysis, modeling, budgeting, and corporate finance.
• Solid background in process improvement, governance, workflow management, and strategic prioritization.
• Proven influencing, relationship-building, and collaboration skills in a global, cross-functional setting.

About the Team
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy:

Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.