Hybrid Global Savings Controller

at Vanderlande

• Job title: Global Savings Controller
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: €4,747 - €6,443 per month
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: ERP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Marietta, United States

About the role

• Global Savings Controller responsible for cost movement analysis and financial reporting within procurement. Enhancing methodologies and collaboration with finance stakeholders in an international environment.

Responsibilities

• 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.