Controller
At a glance
Mid-level Accounting role at Continental. San Fernando de Henares · full-time.
Pay not stated Accounting salary
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What you'll do
- Learn month-end close, reconciliations, budgeting and variance analysis alongside the controllers
- Find repetitive finance tasks and automate them, starting with quick wins
- Build and maintain Power BI reports so monthly outputs no longer need manual rebuilding
- Identify automation opportunities and scope worthwhile projects with the automation team
- Explain your solutions to teammates and document them so the work can be reused
What you bring
- A quantitative or technical bachelor’s degree, such as engineering, business administration or information systems
- Up to four years’ experience, with evidence of solving quantitative problems or building an automated solution
- Advanced Excel skills and comfort with, or aptitude for, Power BI, SQL or Python
- Fluent Spanish or Portuguese and working English
Who this fits
This role suits an early-career, data-minded problem-solver who wants to learn controlling while improving how finance work gets done. You’ll join the controllers supporting sales in Spain and Portugal, based in San Fernando de Henares on a hybrid basis, and report to the Iberia Controlling Manager.
From the employer
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.
We'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.
WHAT 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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