Continental is a leading tire manufacturer and industry specialist. Founded in 1871, the company generated sales of €19.7 billion in 2025 and currently employs around 76,000 people in 54 countries and markets.
Tire solutions from the Tires group sector make mobility safer, smarter, and more sustainable. Its premium portfolio encompasses car, truck, bus, two-wheel, and specialty tires as well as smart solutions and services for fleets and tire retailers. Continental has been delivering top performance for more than 150 years and is one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers. In fiscal 2025, the Tires group sector generated sales of 13.8 billion euros. Continental's tire division currently employs around 53,000 people worldwide and has 19 production and 16 development sites.
Job DescriptionWe're looking for someone interested in finance and excited about challenging the status quo.
Our controlling team is great at what it does, but much of it still runs on semi manual work. We want to keep changing that, and we're convinced the person who'll do it best it's an engineer, business major, or data-minded problem-solver who's open to learn accounting/finance and bring modern data habits with them.
You'll join a team of controllers at a Continental Tires sales business, based in Spain and Portugal, reporting to the Controlling Manager for Iberia. We'll teach you the finance side. You'll teach us how to stop doing things the slow way.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
▪ Learn and take on real controlling work: Month-end close, reconciliations, budgeting, variance analysis, paired closely with the team while you build that knowledge.
▪ Spot the manual work: Repetitive manual tasks that eat everyone's time, and automate them starting with quick, visible wins.
▪ Build and maintain Power BI reporting: To stop rebuilding the same output by hand every month.
▪ Loop in the company's automation team: When something's worth their time, you're the one who spots and scopes it for controlling.
▪ Share what you build: Walk the team through it, document it, make sure your work outlives you and empower your teammates.
WHY THIS ROLE
You'll have real ownership from day one. You'll help modernize how the finance department works, with the backing to make real changes. And you'll be doing it inside a team that's deliberately built to rotate knowledge around rather than let it pile up with one person including you.
QualificationsWHAT YOU'LL BRING
▪ A bachelor’s degree in industrial, Mechanical, Chemical, or Management Engineering, Business Administration, or Information Systems, or something similarly quantitative and technical. We're specifically not looking for Accounting or pure Software/CS backgrounds, we want quantitative rigor and an automation-first instinct.
▪ 0–4 years of experience, prior finance exposure is not an exclusion factor. What matters is a track record of solving quantitative problems and building or automating something, even informally.
▪ Advanced Excel, and comfort with (or fast aptitude for) Power BI, SQL, and/or Python.
▪ A fast, structured way of thinking, you'll be taught a lot in a short time and need to keep up.
▪ Fluent Spanish and/or Portuguese, plus working English.
▪ A mindset that gets genuinely annoyed doing the same task twice and builds the fix instead.
NICE TO HAVE
▪ Any exposure to RPA (UiPath, Power Automate or similar).
▪ SQL or Python beyond the basics..
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in industrial, mechanical, chemical, or management engineering, business administration, information systems, or a similarly quantitative and technical field
- 0–4 years of experience
- Advanced Excel skills
- Comfort with or fast aptitude for Power BI, SQL, and/or Python
- Fluent Spanish and/or Portuguese
- Working English proficiency
- Fast, structured approach to learning and solving quantitative problems
- Track record of solving quantitative problems or building and automating something
- Exposure to RPA, such as UiPath or Power Automate
- SQL or Python skills beyond the basics
Continental Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Continental and has not been reviewed or approved by Continental.
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Healthcare Strength — Health plans are often described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, vision, and related programs (such as HSA/FSA) highlighted as strong components. Feedback suggests the quality of healthcare coverage is a meaningful part of overall compensation satisfaction.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings, including 401(k) plans with company contributions, are viewed favorably and frequently mentioned alongside competitive base pay. These plans are seen as a reliable pillar of the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays, vacation/PTO, and other leave programs are presented as part of a broad benefits suite. The scope of time-off options contributes positively to perceived overall value.
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What We Do
Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2020, Continental generated sales of €37.7 billion and currently employs around 235,000 people in 58 countries and markets. In 2021, the company celebrates its 150th anniversary.
