Business Controller (f/m/d)

Our Business Controlling Power Trading Team is looking for You!

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

• Act as a trusted business partner and independent counterparty to the Power Front Office, providing constructive challenge on commercial decisions and underlying assumptions
• Take end-to-end ownership of a Commercial Power portfolio, ensuring transparency on financial and operational performance as well as key value drivers
• Manage and steer core controlling processes including monthly & quarterly reports, forecasting, and mid-/long-term planning (MTP/LTP), ensuring accurate and timely outputs
• Analyse and explain key performance drivers and deviations, supporting management discussions and decision-making
• Provide financial valuation and recommendation within the Financial Decision process for transactions and strategic initiatives (e.g. PPAs, BESS, structured deals), including evaluation of assumptions, risks, and alignment with financial, accounting, and risk frameworks
• Ensure alignment between financial and performance reporting by analysing deviations, reconciling figures across systems, and coordinating required adjustments with relevant stakeholders
• Drive cross-functional alignment and contribute to transformation initiatives, supporting continuous improvement of processes and systems

Your profile

• Education in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Relevant controlling expertise and/or understanding of the energy trading or comparable commercial environments
• Solid understanding of financial performance drivers, planning processes, and financial valuation principles
• Experience in evaluating commercial decisions or transactions, ideally in structured or deal-driven environments
• Strong analytical skills to structure complex topics and derive clear decision-relevant insights
• Clear and effective communication skills, enabling alignment across stakeholders and concise presentation of key messages
• Experience in taking ownership of topics and driving them independently in a cross-functional environment with multiple stakeholders and tight timelines
• Fluent in written and spoken English; additional languages would be an advantage

Your benefits

At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment.

Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries. As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas:

Work-Life-Balance / New Normal:

• Choosing how, where, and when to work in accordance with your team and the requirements of your job
• Modern and ergonomic equipment for your workplace (home & office)
• Support to balance private life and work: Sabbaticals, part-time possibilities, family service

Mobility:

• Car and bike leasing offer (deferred compensation)
• E-car charging stations at almost all Uniper locations

Health offers:

• Flu vaccination
• Preventive health services
• Employee assistance program

Company pension:

• Employer-funded contributions to a modern pension system
• Possibility of self-funded contributions with employer-funded matching

Trainings:

• Lifelong training
• Coaching

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!

Your contact

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

[email protected]

Attention! Please apply via the button in this portal. Application documents that reach us by post will not be returned and, like those we receive by e-mail, can unfortunately not be considered!

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As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.