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About tonies:
tonies is the globally leading interactive audio platform for children with more than 10 million Tonieboxes and 125 million Tonies sold. The intuitive and award-winning audio system has changed the way young children play and learn independently with its child-safe, wireless, and screen-free approach. Tonieboxes have been activated in over 100 countries, the content portfolio includes around 1,400 Tonies in several languages. Since its inception, tonies has achieved significant milestones, including listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in November 2021 as well as a globally present team of over 550 dedicated professionals operating from various countries.
Joining our tonies team means being part of an inspiring mission to create innovative and meaningful experiences for children around the world. Together, we’re shaping the future of play, learning, and imagination.
You as part of tonies:
As (Junior) Operations Controller (all genders), you play a vital role within our Ops Controlling team, bridging the gap between supply chain activities and financial performance. You take ownership of inventory reporting, sales & demand planning alignment, and PO budget control - helping us keep working capital, cost, and margin visible and under control.
In this role, you strengthen an area that's growing in scope and complexity. Working closely with a Senior Ops Controller, you help build resilience into critical, closing-relevant processes and act as a reliable partner to our Global Supply Planning team and HQ Finance - turning operational data into clear financial insight.
Your tasks and responsibilities will include:
As a (Junior) Operations Controller, you will be at the heart of our operational finance team, bridging the gap between supply chain activities and financial performance.
Your core tasks will include:
- Inventory Reporting & Analysis: Own the monthly inventory reporting and forecasting process. You will analyze stock levels, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to optimize working capital.
- Sales & Demand Planning: Conduct monthly sales and demand planning checks, ensuring financial alignment and consistency between operational forecasts and commercial targets.
- Purchase Order Management & Budget Control: Oversee the approval workflow for Purchase Orders (POs) and track PO budget consumption to ensure cost control and budget compliance.
- Slow Mover Management: Take ownership of slow-moving inventory. This includes conducting long-tail analyses, calculating necessary write-offs/provisions, and coordinating scrapping requests.
- COGS & Margin Analysis: Analyze Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) and its direct impact on the contribution margin, helping us identify profitability drivers including tracking of special/one-off effects within COGS.
- Backup & Process Resilience: Act as backup for closing-relevant Ops Controlling tasks, ensuring continuity of critical month-end and reporting processes.
Cost Controlling & Business Partnering
- Act as a reliable sparring partner for our Global Supply Planning team, supporting them with regular cost reporting, budgeting, and forecasting for OPEX cost lines.
- Provide cost transparency and insights to both local leadership and HQ finance teams.
Process Improvements
- Identify and implement process improvements across reporting structures.
- Support Finance transformation initiatives, including system enhancements, SAP implementation or BI tool integrations.
What we are looking for:
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience in Controlling, FP&A, or Financial Reporting roles.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (advanced formulas, PowerQuery, pivot tables, modeling).
- Experience with ERP systems, ideally Business Central and/or SAP.
- Strong understanding of inventory
- Ability to manage large data sets with precision and attention to detail.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex financial concepts simply.
Nice-to-have
- Experience in a consumer products, retail, or subscription business.
- Familiarity with Power BI, SQL, or other analytics tools.
- Exposure to multi-entity or multi-currency reporting.
- Experience in a fast-growing, international environment.
Why tonies?
- Global Teamwork: We collaborate across departmental and country borders on our vision to bring the Toniebox into every child's room in the world.
- Come as you are: This applies not only to the dress code but also to everything else. Because only where you truly feel comfortable can you give your best.
- Mobility: Choose the option that suits you best - a Deutschlandticket (public transport ticket) for unlimited mobility, a monthly contribution for an office parking space, a leasing bicycle, or a remote work subsidy.
- Enhanced Security: Benefit from subsidies for company pension plans, occupational pension schemes, and occupational disability insurance.
- Rest & Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of paid annual leave plus three additional days off such as Rosenmontag, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve. After one year of employment, you can also use up to 10 "toniecation days" (unpaid leave days).
- Continuous Learning: Benefit from our internal and external training opportunities as well as an individual learning budget to continuously expand your knowledge.
- Language Learning & Relaxation: Improve your communication skills with the language learning app Babbel and find relaxation through our access to the meditation app Calm.
- Discounts: Benefit from attractive discounts on our entire range of tonies products.
Good to know:
As part of our principles, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity at tonies. We actively celebrate our colleagues’ different abilities, ethnicities, faith and gender. Everyone is welcome and supported in their development at all stages in their journey with us.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Vanessa Hubert-Man Talent Acquisition Partner
