Controller (m/f/d) (Controller/in)

Brunel GmbH NL KarlsuheBaden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, BadenEURESpublished 08/05/2026
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Your Tasks

Do you want to reach the next level in your career? At Brunel, you have the opportunity to continuously develop yourself with well-known clients – and across various industries. Take the decisive step in your career today and apply to us as a Controller.

  • Responsibility for budget planning, forecasts, and medium-term planning, including analysis of plan-actual variances
  • Carrying out variance analyses in the production environment, particularly target/actual comparisons
  • Building and further developing cost accounting systems as well as supporting inventory management
  • Creation and analysis of product calculations, standard costs, and actual costs
  • Analysis of manufacturing costs, material costs, production costs, and overhead allocations
  • Carrying out contribution margin calculations and profitability analyses
  • Support in CAPEX planning, business cases, and investment evaluations
  • Close cooperation with plant management, operations, production, and other operational areas
  • Analysis of production-related key figures such as scrap, rework, machine run times, OEE, and capacity utilization
  • Support with monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements
  • Ensuring compliance, internal controls, and audit requirements
  • Participation in process optimizations as well as system and digitalization projects

Your Qualifications

  • Completed degree in the field of BWL, Finance, Controlling, Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, or comparable
  • Several years of professional experience in controlling or financial management, ideally in a manufacturing industry environment
  • At least 3-4 years of experience in production controlling or a comparable production environment
  • Very good understanding of manufacturing processes, e.g., bills of materials, routing, lead times, and capacities
  • Sound knowledge of cost accounting, particularly product calculation, standard costs, actual costs, and variance analyses
  • Confident handling of ERP systems; experience with Infor is an advantage
  • Very good Excel skills are mandatory
  • Very good English skills in spoken and written form
  • Analytical, structured, and solution-oriented way of working
  • Strong communication skills as well as enjoyment of close cooperation with production and management

Your Benefits

We offer you a corporate culture characterized by the diversity of our employees and mutual appreciation – between employees and at all corporate levels. In addition to varied regular get-togethers with the local Brunel teams, this also includes regular feedback discussions about your challenges and perspectives with your Account Manager. With individual further education and training, you will be optimally supported and prepared for future projects. Permanent employment contracts, 30 days of vacation, working time account regulations, and company, employer-funded pension schemes are a matter of course for us.

What Brunel Stands For

Working at Brunel means: attractive work tasks, extraordinary career perspectives, the security of an expanding engineering service provider, and the full diversity of engineering and IT. In the DACH-CZ region alone, we have 45 locations and development centers with accredited testing laboratories, and worldwide over 100 locations with more than 12,000 employees in over 40 countries. More than 45 years of international success and over 25 years in Germany. Stagnation means regression – with Brunel, you can make a difference!