Controller in the Primary Schools Sector

Ensure financial planning and control: You take responsibility for controlling the primary schools sector and ensure business planning and control as well as monitoring within budgeting, forecasts and annual accounts.

Responsible for reporting and information flow: You are responsible for the financial reporting of the primary schools and ensure timely, precise and transparent information provision by preparing complex data appropriately for the target audience.

Prepare analyses and decision-making bases: As a service-oriented contact person, you advise the sector management and specialist offices, analyse complex issues and proactively develop well-founded decision-making bases and recommendations for the sector and department management.

Further develop controlling processes: You optimise existing control instruments and controlling processes and document them comprehensibly. In addition, you contribute your financial expertise valuably to sector-specific projects.

Utilise development opportunities: The position offers attractive development prospects. With professional and personal suitability, there is the option to take on further demanding tasks in other controlling areas in the medium term.

Experience: You bring several years of solid professional experience in controlling or financial management, ideally in the education or administrative environment. Experience in project work and optimisation of controlling processes is an advantage.

Personality: You combine diplomatic skill with the necessary assertiveness and act confidently and professionally even in a demanding, politically influenced environment.

Education: You have a completed university degree (Uni/FH) in business administration, public management, economics or a comparable higher qualification with a focus on finance/controlling.

Language: Fluent German in spoken and written form is a matter of course for you.

The Central Services sector consolidates the cross-sectional and support tasks of the Department of Education. The Central Services form the competence centre for organisational, business management, personnel policy and system technical issues at the department level and are divided into the following five departments: Finance and Controlling, Digitalisation and IT, Personnel, Space and Facilities, and Material Centre. These ensure smooth operations and act as versatile service providers for the department's specialist areas.

The Finance & Controlling (F&C) department is responsible for the financial accounting and controlling of the Department of Education. With around 20 employees, it coordinates and controls the budgeting and financial planning process and is responsible for the accounting of the entire department. It also acts as a competence centre for specialist and business management issues and ensures financial reporting to internal and external bodies.