General Management March 16, 2025 Manager Sustainable Finance (f/m/d/x) Düsseldorf , Germany

GEA is one of the largest suppliers for the food and beverage processing industry and a wide range of other process industries. Approximately 18,000 employees in more than 60 countries contribute significantly to GEA’s success – come and join them! We offer interesting and challenging tasks, a positive working environment in international teams and opportunities for personal development and growth in a global company.

Your responsibilities and tasks:

Would you like to be part of our Sustainability Team? Join us in Duesseldorf and support us in our sustainability-related financial reporting, in various initiatives to exceed in mandatory and voluntary regulatory frameworks like TCFD and TNFD and collaborating with our organization to achieve relevant excellence.

Better is about taking responsibility for our planet and future generations. As Manager in Sustainable Finance, you will sharpen and strengthen our sustainability disclosure in alignment with CSRD incl. EU Taxonomy towards our stakeholders as well as reports for sustainability measures and performance for internal stakeholders and the management. Further you will support a variety of initiatives to improve non-financial data quality, reporting processes and compliance with mandatory and voluntary regulatory frameworks like TCFD and TNFD.

We welcome highly motivated candidates with an entrepreneurial mindset and out-of-the-box thinking skills.

Your roles and responsibilities:

1. Act as a subject matter expert for the internal coordination of individual sustainability-related financial reporting activities
2. Screen the regulatory market for upcoming disclosure trends and best-practices
3. Support the further integration of sustainability-related financial requirements into organizational processes and reporting cycles
4. Assist in managing the year-end sustainability reporting process with assurance providers incl. tracking of audit requests and status
5. Assist in coordinating projects with external consultants
6. Preparation of kick-offs, status calls and meetings for sustainable finance activities for internal and external stakeholders
7. Analyze and identify internal improvement potential for data quality and reporting processes
8. Collaborate with relevant functions and departments achieving internal as well as external reporting excellence

Your profile and qualifications:

1. University Degree in business administration or economics (ideally Master's level).
2. 2-3 years of professional experience in an audit assurance company
3. Profound knowledge of sustainability reporting frameworks and regulatory requirements (e.g. CSRD, EU Taxonomy)
4. Analytical skills: You have an affinity for numbers, are confident in using Excel and other data analysis tools and understand how to translate non-financial data requirements into meaningful reports
5. Proactive initiative and responsibility: You work in a structured, independent and reliable manner and show commitment to the realization of projects
6. Profound project management skills, sound problem-solving skills, process-oriented thinking and assertiveness
7. Strong communication skills: You can present results in an understandable and concise way and ideally have experience in creating presentations
8. Fluently spoken and written German and English

What happens once your application is submitted?

You will receive an E-Mail when your application has been processed. One of our Talent Acquisition Specialists will review and verify that you meet the qualification criteria. Once your application has been successfully verified and depending on the role you will be invited to a first interview either virtual or face to face. Usually after the second or third interview round we will make a decision.

For reasons of readability, no gender-specific differentiation is made in the job advertisement. However, the job advertisement is explicitly aimed at all persons, regardless of gender or lack thereof.

GEA is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will therefore receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, world view, national origin, genetics, disability, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other protected characteristic required by applicable law. Applicants with disabilities are welcome and will be given special consideration if they are equally qualified.

Join a top employer

GEA is certified as a Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute for Europe. We have high scores for Leadership, Ethics & Integrity and Sustainability.

A world of opportunities

We’re a global industrial engineering company and one of the world’s largest systems suppliers for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical sectors, and many others. GEA offers exciting and diverse training and career opportunities around the world.