Sales Controller

The Zumtobel Group is an international lighting group and a leading supplier of innovative lighting solutions, lighting components and associated services. With its core brands, Zumtobel, Thorn and Tridonic, the Group offers its customers around the world a comprehensive portfolio of products and services.

SpotLIGHT of the job

Are you a detail-oriented finance professional with a passion for driving business performance through insightful analysis and strategic planning? Do you enjoy transforming complex data into clear business recommendations? Are you looking for an opportunity to make an impact in a dynamic environment?

If so, we invite you to join us as a
Sales Controller
, located
in
Belgrade,
where you will play a key role in supporting our international business performance and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual closing activities for both Legal Entity and Management views, including accruals, uploads, sales bonuses related period-end adjustments.
• Lead the Sales Forecast (FC) and Budget (BUD) processes across all dimensions, ensuring detailed planning on cost center, account, and entity levels in alignment with local and group targets.
• Support the Mid-Term Planning process, aligning financial targets with long-term strategic objectives.
• Prepare and deliver financial reports and performance analyses for local management and headquarters, including ad hoc and central reporting (Legal and Management views, Cluster and Budget Review meetings).
• Drive business planning and project controlling, supporting strategic initiatives and investment evaluations.
• Contribute to audits, ICS processes, and impairment tests to ensure full compliance with group standards.
• Define and implement KPIs to monitor and improve the entity's performance.
• Oversee cost control, identifying and executing cost optimization measures and corrective actions.
• All country specific tasks & needs.

Skills & Experience

We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements. Your motivation and potential matter more than perfection.

• University degree ideally focused on Controlling, Finance, or equivalent qualifications.
• 3 – 5 years of experience in financial controlling, ideally in sales or commercial environment within an international organization.
• Excellent user knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint; experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP) is a plus.
• Self-driven, resilient, and assertive personality with strong team spirit and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Structured, detail-oriented with strong analytical skills and precise way of working.
• Fluent in English; additional European language skills(e.g., Spanish) would be considered as an advantage.

What we offer

• A truly international team
• work with colleagues from different countries and cultures.
• Employee well-being and family support programs
  – private health insurance and various initiatives to support families and parenting.
• Social gatherings and community events
  – designed to foster connection and collaboration among employees.
• Personal growth
• training opportunities accessible internally and externally.

Learn more about our corporate company culture in our enlightening video - where we live light and thrive together.

At the Zumtobel Group, we not only understand the power of the visible, but also the invisible. Like light itself, diversity cannot be grasped but it can be perceived. We appreciate the uniqueness of each individual and recognise it as a driver of innovation. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to e.g.: race, colour, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or disability.

Ready to be a part of Zumtobel's growing team? Apply today, we look forward
to meeting you