Vanderlande

Global Savings Controller

Vanderlande

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Marietta • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 €4,747 - €6,443 per month

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

ERP

About the role

  • Act as the finance business partner for Procurement globally on all cost movement–related topics, providing financial insight, guidance, and alignment.
  • Improve and govern the global cost movement review methodology, ensuring consistent application across categories, regions, and functions.
  • Assess, validate, and report cost movement impact (cost up, cost down, cost avoidance) in collaboration with Procurement and Finance stakeholders.
  • Maintain and further develop cost movement tooling, templates, and reporting solutions to support accurate and efficient tracking.
  • Monitor cost movement KPIs and financial impact across the organization and ensure timely, clear, and accurate reporting to management.
  • Deliver insights and financial analysis on savings performance, trends, risks, and opportunities.
  • Ensure savings documentation meets internal audit and compliance standards.
  • Integrate cost movement insights into budgeting, forecasting, and performance management cycles.
  • Collaborate closely with Procurement, Finance, and Business Unit Controllers to ensure alignment on methodology, data quality, and reporting standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively at different levels of the organization.
  • Proven capability in cost movement analysis, spend analysis, and financial impact assessment.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in Controlling, FP&A, Procurement Finance, or similar analytical roles.
  • Strong preference for experience in Procurement Controlling .
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with spend analytics tooling and ERP systems such as JDE is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with Power BI or similar reporting tools is an advantage.
  • Structured, analytical, and detail-oriented, with a proactive mindset for improving processes and tools.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to operate effectively in a global, matrixed environment.
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken).
Benefits
  • 40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
  • Flexible working hours.
  • A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
  • A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
  • Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
  • Working from home allowance.
  • Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
  • On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
  • Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
  • A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
  • A great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
cost movement analysisspend analysisfinancial impact assessmentbudgetingforecastingperformance managementKPI monitoringfinancial analysisreporting standardsinternal audit compliance
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationanalytical thinkingdetail-orientedproactive mindsetcollaborationengagementalignmentprocess improvementglobal operation