Team Lead - Senior Finance Manager (German speaker) (m/f/d)

About the Job

The Senior Finance Manager is responsible for the full financial oversight of the Allianz Germany customer scope.

The role acts as the primary sparring partner to both the Head of IT for Germany and the Regional Head of Finance, and supports the end-to-end management of Germany Branch financials across a total cost budget of over 2 billion EUR, in close collaboration with Finance teams across other central functions such as Infrastructure and Applications.

The position holder leads a team of 6 FTEs and is a trusted advisor and key interface to the customer and central finance functions.

What you do

• Sparring partner to the Head of IT and Regional Head of Finance: Act as the primary financial counterpart to both the Head of IT for Germany and the Regional Head of Finance, jointly steering financial topics, preparing governance meetings, and providing clear financial analysis to support business decisions.

• Financial oversight and performance: Own the end-to-end financial performance for the Allianz Germany customer scope, including planning, forecasting, actuals, closing, and variance analysis across a total cost budget of over 2 billion EUR. This includes close collaboration with Finance teams in other central functions such as Infrastructure and Applications to ensure end-to-end management of Germany Branch financials.

• Customer engagement: Serve as the senior finance interface to Allianz Germany, representing Allianz Technology's financial position and ensuring full transparency on IT costs and charges.

• Team leadership: Lead, develop, and coach a team of 6 FTEs, ensuring strong delivery, quality, and professional growth across the team.

• Planning and pricing: Drive the annual planning and forecasting cycles, including consolidation, challenge, and sign-off of financial targets in alignment with IT and central finance.

• Strategic advice and business cases: Provide financial advisory on business cases, investment decisions, and structural topics, and act as a functional approver for finance processes within the Germany scope.

• AI, automation, and simplification: Champion the use of AI (including Claude) and modern tools to improve efficiency in financial processes, and continuously look for ways to simplify and improve how the team works.

What you bring

• Degree in Finance, Controlling, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field, with at least 13 years of experience in financial controlling, finance management, or a related senior finance role, ideally in a complex, multi-entity or international environment.

• Proven track record as a sparring partner to senior IT or business leadership, with the ability to translate financial data into clear, actionable insights. Strong skills in financial planning, forecasting, and performance management across large cost budgets.

• Confident in engaging with customers and senior stakeholders at all levels. Experience leading and developing a team.

• A genuine interest in AI and automation tools (e.g. Claude, Power BI, Power Platform) and how they can make finance work better. Good knowledge of SAP (FI/CO) or similar ERP systems and strong MS Excel skills. You embrace AI and new tools and keep pushing for better, simpler ways of working and stay grounded and effective in a demanding, fast-moving environment.

• You command the room with senior leaders and customers, and you bring the depth of experience to back it up.

• You are the go-to person for the Head of IT and you make financial complexity easy to navigate. You lead, coach, and develop your team and bring out the best in the people around you.

• Take full accountability for your scope and nothing falls through the cracks. You get to the point, tell a compelling story, and adapt your style to your audience; for this reason, fluency in English and German is required.

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.

• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).

• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.

• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz Technology

With its headquarters in Munich, Germany, Allianz Technology is Allianz's global IT service provider and delivers IT solutions that drive the group's digitalization. With more than 11,000 employees in over 20 countries around the world, Allianz Technology is tasked to run, optimize, transform and innovate the infrastructure, applications and services together with Allianz companies to co-create the best customer experience.

We service the entire spectrum of digitalization – from one of the industry's largest IT infrastructure projects that spans data centres, networks and security, to application platforms ranging from workplace services to digital interaction.

In short: We deliver comprehensive end-to-end IT solutions for Allianz in the digital age. We are the backbone of Allianz. Find us at: www.linkedin.com/company/allianz-technology.

Commitment to Integrity, Fairness & Inclusion

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love, or what you believe in. We therefore welcome applications regardless of race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

To Recruitment Agencies

Allianz Technology has an in-house recruitment team that sources great candidates directly. Therefore, Allianz Technology does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies or search firm recruiters.

When we do work with recruitment agencies, that engagement is formalized by a contract. Fees will only be paid when there is a contract in place. Without a contract in place, we will not accept invoices on unsolicited resumes, even if the candidate was ultimately employed by Allianz.

104258 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | PG11 | Allianz Technology | Full-Time | Permanent