Carrier develops building and cold chain technologies for environments where comfort, safety, and reliable preservation matter. Its work spans HVAC and refrigeration systems, helping organizations support healthier indoor spaces and protect the supply of food and medicine. The company also explores smart building solutions, energy resilience, and more efficient infrastructure as it works with partners on sustainability and climate-related challenges. With teams working across construction, healthcare, and logistics, Carrier offers opportunities connected to the systems that keep buildings operational and essential goods moving.
Industrial Controller and Business Partner
Join Carrier as an industrial controller, strengthening cost reliability, ERP data quality, and performance decisions. Partner with teams across the business to improve industrial results.
Description
- Oversee product standard costs and keep cost analyses reliable.
- Contribute to standard cost review cycles.
- Investigate differences between standard and actual costs.
- Track industrial cost drivers, including materials, labor, overhead, logistics, and subcontracting.
- Work with operations to keep bills of materials, routings, labor rates, and master data accurate.
- Flag cost overruns and develop action plans to address them.
- Evaluate profitability across products, product families, and production lines.
- Safeguard the accuracy of industrial and financial data in ERP and decision-support systems.
- Maintain and refine cost structures and financial parameters.
- Help system users apply tools effectively and follow good practices.
- Contribute to digitalization, automation, and business intelligence initiatives.
- Create reports and analytical tools that inform decisions.
- Estimate costs for new products and technical changes.
- Prepare financial analyses for investment and launch decisions.
- Track project financial assumptions and compare forecasts with actual results.
- Find ways to strengthen product competitiveness.
- Follow Group financial policies.
- Support SOX controls and internal or external audits.
- Maintain reliable financial processes and management data.
- Identify and carry out continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with R&D, Industrialization, Production, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Quality teams.
Requirements
- Master’s degree (Bac+5 equivalent) in Finance, Management Control, Business, or Engineering with a Finance specialization.
- Ideally, at least five years of experience.
- Substantial experience in industrial management control, costing, or both.
- Experience with standard costs, variance analysis, margins, and industrial performance.
- Understanding of production processes and environments.
- Comfort with information systems and the ability to spot data inconsistencies.
- Experience using an industrial ERP system.
- JDE or SAP knowledge is an advantage but not required.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Experience with Power Query, Power BI, databases, or automated reporting is highly valued.
- Professional English sufficient for reading and drafting business communications and occasionally taking part in discussions.
- Curiosity, rigor, and self-motivation.
- Ability to collaborate across Finance, Production, Supply Chain, Procurement, R&D, and Quality.
Benefits
- Annual compensation of €43,000–€86,000.
- May qualify for short-term incentives subject to defined conditions.
- Competitive total compensation package, potentially including additional benefits and well-being programs.
- Reasonable accommodations are available on request during the recruitment process.