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Project Manager (m/f/d) Finance Strategy

Hanau, Germany

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Job ID 59446 Functional area Finance Full-time/part-time Full Time Experience level Professional

Project Manager (m/f/d) Finance Strategy

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Project Manager (m/f/d) Finance Strategy
Permanent

About Heraeus

Making displays foldable? Helping hearts beat with medical innovations? Or breathing new life into precious metals? As a family-owned global technology group we help our customers to always being one step ahead. Whether production, research, sales or administration - we love being the invisible force behind innovation. We deliver world-class quality in the areas of Metals & Recycling, Healthcare, Semiconductor & Electronics and Industrials. As one of the top 10 family-owned companies in Germany, we employ around 15,200 employees in 40 countries. 

As Project Manager Finance Strategy, you will act as a strategic and operational supporter of the CFO. You will operate at the intersection of finance, strategy, and executive management, supporting key decision-making processes and driving high-impact initiatives across the global organization. This role is not a traditional support position. It is a highly visible interface role at the heart of Finance, combining executive communication, financial analysis, project coordination, and strategic decision preparation.

You will work closely with the CFO, the Finance Leadership Team, business units, corporate functions, and selected external stakeholders.

The following challenges await you:

  • Track, structure, and prioritize strategic and operational topics for the CFO, ensuring transparency on key decisions, responsibilities, deadlines, and follow-up actions.
  • Prepare high-quality decision papers, executive briefings, management summaries, presentations, and board-level materials, translating complex finance topics into clear and actionable messages.
  • Contribute to group-wide transformation, efficiency, and digital finance initiatives
  • Support the CFO in strategic finance initiatives, transformation programs, and cross-functional projects with relevance for business performance and long-term value creation.
  • Contribute to finance-related governance formats, performance reviews, leadership meetings, reporting structures, and steering committees.
  • Act as a trusted interface between the CFO, Finance Leadership Team, business units, corporate functions, and selected external stakeholders.
  • Support initiatives around process excellence, digitalization, automation, AI-enabled improvements, and confidential high-priority executive topics.

Your Profile:

  • Successfully completed degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Accounting, Controlling, or a related field
  • Initial to several years of relevant experience in finance, controlling, corporate finance, strategy, PMO, transformation, management consulting, or inhouse consulting
  • Solid finance background with a strong understanding of financial processes, performance management, reporting, controlling, and business value drivers.
  • Excellent analytical and conceptual skills, with the ability to structure complex topics and prepare them for executive decision-making.
  • Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills, combined with experience in preparing executive presentations, decision papers, reports, or board-level materials.
  • High level of initiative, ownership, and problem-solving ability
  • Excellent communication skills and confidence interacting with senior executives combined with a strong sense of discretion, integrity, and reliability
  • Fluency in English and German complete your profile

What we offer:

  • Strong salary package - attractive base salary plus bonus and support for private pension plan
  • Modern working time arrangements - time sovereignty without time recording, focus on results-oriented work
  • Regular time off - 30 days annual leave plus up to 6 additional days off (company closures on bridge days and between years), special leave for special occasions, life phase account for paid time off (e.g. sabbatical, earlier retirement)
  • Additional benefits - subsidized public transport, discounts in many (online) stores, company medical service with comprehensive preventive medical check-ups, sports facilities and employee canteen with freshly prepared meals every day
  • Sustainability and social commitment - sustainability as part of the corporate strategy and targeted support for initiatives in the areas of education, family and science through our own foundations

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