If you’ve ever wished the numbers could tell you exactly where to focus next, this role is designed to make that happen.

As our new Business Partner Production Controlling (m/f/d) at KWS Berlin GmbH, you are the financial co-pilot for our local production site—turning numbers into clear, actionable guidance for daily operations. You bring real-time insights, cost transparency, and performance support that help teams focus on what matters most and continuously improve efficiency.

By combining a solid understanding of production processes with strong financial expertise, you ensure decisions are fact-based and aligned with our strategic goals. In close partnership with production, supply chain, and finance colleagues—locally and globally—you help drive accountability, impact, and measurable results.

This is a permanent, full-time position.

Your new place of work is at our Berlin-based entity or at our HQ in Einbeck.

Your responsibilities:

Business Partnering & Financial Advisory

• Act as a trusted financial advisor and sparring partner for production and maintenance
  teams
• Support the Team Lead Business Partners Finance & Controlling in steering and decision-making process

Cost Controlling & Analysis

• Collect and analyze production costs, develop and maintain standard costs
• Conduct variance analyses (plan vs. actual vs. standard) and identify cost-saving
  opportunities
• Track material usage, scrap, and production waste

Planning & Forecasting

• Support budgeting and forecasting processes, including COGM calculations and detailed production planning
• Assist in operational forecasting and cost modelling

Closing & Reporting

• Material Ledger maintenance and costing
• Prepare WIP bookings and calculate COGS by crop for quarterly closings
• Contribute to KPI reporting and plant performance dashboards

Inventory Management

• Support inventory management and ensure accurate reporting
• Support the stakeholders in the inventory devaluation calculation, write offs and scrap values

Collaboration & Governance

• Collaborate with international production controlling colleagues to ensure alignment and governance
• Participate in productivity and savings initiatives, CapEx evaluations, and make-or-buy analyses

System & Process Support

• Support standard cost reviews and cost roll-ups
• Ensure compliance with controlling standards and contribute to continuous process improvement

Your profile:

• Master’s degree in economics, business administration, agribusiness, or comparable
• Several years of experience in production or plant controlling, ideally in an international environment
• Proficiency in SAP (CO, ML, CO-PA) and Excel; experience with BI tools is a plus
• Good analytical skills and hands-on approach to operational controlling
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work in cross-functional and international teams
• Empathy and intercultural competence
• Structured, self-motivated, and self-organized
• Goal-driven
• Committed and proactive team player
• Excellent command of English; Russian and/or Ukrainian language skills are an asset

• As a family-run company we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight and independence - this culture is lived in practice creating thus an open and friendly working atmosphere.​
• True to our motto Make yourself grow, we support employees’ professional and personal development.​
• We offer excellent work equipment (e.g. ergonomic workstations, several monitors, air conditioning, high-end technical equipment, the newest laboratory equipment), a fully-fledged, subsidized canteen and sufficient free parking spaces at the KWS location. ​
• We offer a company pension scheme, capital formation benefits, Christmas and holiday bonuses, special prices for company shares, childcare allowance and a job bike. ​

We look forward to receiving your online application via our application system SuccessFactors! Please use the "Apply" function in the online advertisement.