Lead Finance Business Partner (m/w/d) BU Specialties

We think about the future

– also yours.

Speira’s ambition is to be the leading player in rolled and recycled aluminium, setting the industry standard for sustainability by 2030. To achieve this, we rely on high-quality production, low carbon footprint, and a strong team of experts. As global Finance Business Partner for BU Specialties, you will take on a key leadership role, ensuring the strategic and operational financial steering of the Business Unit Specialties by leading the BU‑wide Finance Business Partner team, owning all BU FP&A processes, managing planning/reporting/compliance, strengthening price and margin performance, and providing reliable analyses to sustainably improve business results. This is a high-impact role that combines financial expertise with commercial insight and leadership. Your work will directly influence decision-making and help shape the future of our business.

Challenges that will make you grow

• Lead and develop the global BU ‑ wide Finance Business Partner team for BU "Specialties” and drive a strong finance governance and performance framework.
• Act as a strategic sparring partner for BU management, providing financial guidance, challenging assumptions, and enabling high-quality business decisions and performance improvements.
• Optimize, standardize, own and steer all planning and performance processes including AOP, forecasts, management reporting, KPI reviews, dashboards, and analyses across all locations globally.
• Strengthen financial governance across the BU by ensuring disciplined performance management, clear accountabilities, and consistent operating mechanisms across all sites
• Drive pricing and margin performance, lead sales controlling activities, and assess product and customer profitability to identify improvement levers.
• Lead finance projects related to cost optimization, pricing excellence, complexity reduction, digitalization, and process automation.
• Prepare solid financial decision-support packages, analyses & dashboards for investments, product calculations, customer agreements, and strategic initiatives.
• Lead, coach and inspire your team while promoting a culture of ownership, accountability, proactivity and continuous improvement.

Qualifications that will get you ahead

• Degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or related field.
• At least 10 years of p roven experience in Finance Business Partnering, Controlling, FP&A within an industrial / manufacturing environment .
• Demonstrated leadership experience and capability: Ability to lead, influence, motivate and develop teams, ideally in a global set-up.
• Proficiency in Reporting-/Controlling-tools such as Power Bi and ERP-Systems (SAP).
• Strong analytical and commercial mindset with strategic orientation .
• Strong leadership skills and experience in leading teams in complex environments, cross-functional set-ups and in different locations.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, both in German and English language.

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We expressly emphasize that all people - regardless of gender/gender identity, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability or equality, age, and sexual orientation - are equally welcome at our company.

Applications from severely disabled persons and persons with equal disabilities will be considered if they are equally qualified.

Our Benefits

• Attractive compensation package
• Excellent further training opportunities
• Respectful and collegial corporate culture
• Sports & and health promotion (e.g. Urban Sports)
• Work-life balance
• Canteen
• Company pension plan and pension plan according to collective agreement
• Company day care center (U3)
• Corporate Benefits portal with many discounts
• Subsidized Jobticket
• Access to the Handelshof in Düsseldorf and HH-Harburg
• Job Bike

Speira is a leading European aluminium rolling and recycling company, comprising a total of eleven recycling and production sites in Germany and Norway plus own research and development. Speira recycles up to 650,000 tons of aluminium per year and produces around one million tons of advanced rolled products.
The plants include the Alunorf joint venture, the world’s largest aluminium rolling mill, and Grevenbroich, the world’s largest refining plant in the world. With approximately 5,400 employees, Speira is proud to supply some of the best-known industrial companies in the global sectors automotive, packaging, printing, engineering, building and construction. For more information about Speira, please visit speira.com .

Are you interested? Then apply now!

Contact: Eyleen Röbert

Do you have any questions? We look forward to your call: +49 2181 477 3008

Grevenbroich, DE, 41515