Business Controller - Topoľčany

DP World, the fast-growing transportation and logistics leader that currently manages more than 10% of world trade, is thrilled to announce a new Contract Logistics launch in Topoľčany, Slovakia!

Join us in shaping the financial foundations of a new Contract Logistics site within our network. As Business Controller, you will provide the financial insight and discipline needed to support profitable growth, informed decision-making, and operational excellence from day one.

Working closely with the Site Manager and international stakeholders, you will translate business performance into clear, actionable information. Your responsibilities will include developing and monitoring KPIs, preparing forecasts and cost-center analyses, supporting budgeting and investment decisions, identifying risks and budget deviations, and contributing to project calculations during the offer and launch phases.

Salary range: 31.454 – 45.000 Euro per year*​

*No rights can be derived from this range. Placement within the range depends on relevant experience, skills and qualifications.

Your Responsibilities:

• Coordinating accounting and controlling activities across the site, ensuring accurate, timely, and consistent financial information.
• Monitoring key business and financial indicators, presenting performance transparently to site management and relevant stakeholders.
• Identifying budget deviations and emerging financial risks at an early stage, enabling timely corrective action.
• Developing and operating management information systems that provide reliable, relevant, and actionable business insights.
• Managing the risk-management process by coordinating risk identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting activities.
• Planning and controlling budgets, forecasts, cost centers, investments, and financial performance in line with business objectives.
• Coordinating management information related to the achievement of corporate goals, with particular focus on profitability, earnings, and sustainable business performance.
• Supporting site leadership as a trusted financial business partner by providing critical analysis, challenging assumptions, and translating financial data into practical recommendations.
   

Your Profile:

• Completed Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline, would be ideal.
• Bringing several years of relevant experience in finance, controlling, or business analysis, ideally within the logistics or Contract Logistics sector.
• A good understanding of business administration, financial planning, performance management, and management reporting, ideally within an asset-intensive, service-based industry.
• Advanced Excel skills and practical experience with SAP or comparable ERP and financial-management systems.
• Excellent command of the English language, both in speaking and writing. Fluency in any other European languages, particularly the German language, would be a plus.
• Communicating clearly, confidently, and tactfully with colleagues and stakeholders at all organisational levels, both verbally and in writing.
• Complex problem-solving abilities through structured analysis, root-cause investigation, sound judgement, and practical, sustainable solutions.
• Maintaining a high level of accuracy, attention to detail, organisation, and focus when managing financial data and competing priorities.
• Strong critical-thinking skills to challenge assumptions, identify inconsistencies, understand underlying causes, and make well-informed recommendations.

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.  

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 115,000 employees from 160 nationalities, spanning 78 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

DP World is on a mission to transcend boundaries and bridge the gap between all nations and cultures – not just in what we do but also in how we behave.

We are dedicated to creating a culture where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential. We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity, drives innovation and growth and helps us connect people, businesses, and societies. Free minds and different perspectives are changing our world, and together we can change what’s possible.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW 
TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.

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