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About the Role

Join DP World in shaping the financial foundations of a new Contract Logistics site in Topoľčany, Slovakia. As Business Controller, you will provide financial insight and discipline to support profitable growth, informed decision-making, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate accounting and controlling activities across the site, ensuring accurate, timely, and consistent financial information.
• Monitor key business and financial indicators, presenting performance transparently to site management and relevant stakeholders.
• Identify budget deviations and emerging financial risks at an early stage, enabling timely corrective action.
• Develop and operate management information systems that provide reliable, relevant, and actionable business insights.
• Manage the risk-management process by coordinating risk identification, assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting activities.
• Plan and control budgets, forecasts, cost centers, investments, and financial performance in line with business objectives.
• Coordinate management information related to the achievement of corporate goals, with a focus on profitability, earnings, and sustainable business performance.
• Support site leadership as a trusted financial business partner by providing critical analysis, challenging assumptions, and translating financial data into practical recommendations.

Requirements

• Completed Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Several years of relevant experience in finance, controlling, or business analysis, ideally within the logistics or Contract Logistics sector.
• A good understanding of business administration, financial planning, performance management, and management reporting, ideally within an asset-intensive, service-based industry.
• Advanced Excel skills and practical experience with SAP or comparable ERP and financial-management systems.
• Excellent command of the English language, both in speaking and writing.
• Communicating clearly, confidently, and tactfully with colleagues and stakeholders at all organisational levels, both verbally and in writing.
• Complex problem-solving abilities through structured analysis, root-cause investigation, sound judgement, and practical, sustainable solutions.
• Maintaining a high level of accuracy, attention to detail, organisation, and focus when managing financial data and competing priorities.
• Strong critical-thinking skills to challenge assumptions, identify inconsistencies, understand underlying causes, and make well-informed recommendations.

Skills

• Excel
• SAP
• ERP
• Financial Management Systems
• English Language Proficiency
• German Language Proficiency (plus)
• Business Administration
• Financial Planning
• Performance Management
• Management Reporting
• Risk Management
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Cost Center Analysis
• Investment Analysis
• Problem-Solving
• Critical-Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Organization
• Focus

Location

• Topoľčany, Slovakia

Work Type

• Contract

Experience Level

• Several years of relevant experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline

Salary/Compensations

• 31.454 – 45.000 Euro per year

Benefits

• Market competitive compensation package

About the Company

• DP World is the fast-growing transportation and logistics leader that currently manages more than 10% of world trade.
• Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world.
• DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.
• With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 115,000 employees from 160 nationalities, spanning 78 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.
• We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.
• We’re reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.
• DP World is on a mission to transcend boundaries and bridge the gap between all nations and cultures – not just in what we do but also in how we behave.
• We are dedicated to creating a culture where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential.
• We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity, drives innovation and growth and helps us connect people, businesses, and societies.
• Free minds and different perspectives are changing our world, and together we can change what’s possible.
• WE MAKE TRADE FLOW TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.

Equal Opportunity

• We are dedicated to creating a culture where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential. We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity, drives innovation and growth and helps us connect people, businesses, and societies. Free minds and different perspectives are changing our world, and together we can change what’s possible.