Teamlead Cost Accounting & Transfer Price Calculation (m/f/d)

Would you like to redesign your work and work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?

Then we are the right company for you. We are looking forward to your application!

As Team Lead Cost Accounting & Transfer Price Calculation (m/f/d), you will take ownership of key controlling processes to ensure accurate costing, compliant transfer pricing, and effective business support. You will drive standardization, automation, and collaboration across departments while enabling stakeholders with your expertise.

Your Tasks:

• You lead the cost accounting and transfer price calculation team
• You oversee cost allocation processes and implement standards for cost centers and account structures (local & group)
• You ensure accurate standard cost calculations considering BU sales requirements
• You define and manage the update process for standard costs to ensure high quality
• You collaborate with internal departments (finance, sales, procurement, etc.)
• You create transparency on cost quality (e.g. deviations between local and group standard costing, master data issues)
• You develop and implement automation concepts for cost accounting and transfer pricing
• You ensure compliant calculation and documentation of transfer prices in close coordination with the tax department
• You monitor transfer pricing (e.g. margin monitoring) and ensure proper handling in IBP (Integrated Business Planning)
• You train and enable stakeholders on cost accounting topics (e.g. via internal academy sessions)

Your Profile:

Qualification:

• Degree in Business Administration, preferably with a focus on controlling, accounting and/or taxes
• Knowledge of accounting under the German Commercial Code (HGB)
• Solid understanding of cost accounting, cost structures, and standard cost calculation
• Knowledge in CoS P&L

Experience and Know-how:

• Several years of relevant professional experience in a comparable position
• Practical experience in transfer pricing and/or intercompany service relationships
• Experience in coordinating complex processes and meeting deadlines

Languages: Fluent in both written and spoken English, German would be beneficial

Personality: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills – able to simplify complex issues, independent, structured and reliable working style

Working:

• Very good communication skills for enabling cost accounting processes and collaboration in a matrix organization
• Proactive and team-oriented mindset
• Able to work across departments and with international interfaces

Your Benefits:

• Attractive remuneration: You will be paid in accordance with the collective agreement, which provides for an attractive basic salary as well as vacation and Christmas bonuses.
• Flexible and mobile working: We offer you flexible working (time) models to enable the right balance between mobile working and office presence.
• Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account: We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.
• WEPA Academy: With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.
• Sustainable personnel policy: A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.
• Health & Wellbeing: You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme OTHEB.

The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location.

About Us

The WEPA Group is a family business operating throughout Europe and offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that contribute to the well-being of millions of consumers all over Europe every day. With more than 4,000 employees, we produce hygiene paper products such as toilet paper, towel paper, handkerchiefs and napkins at 14 production sites in Europe.

A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years.

We consistently invest in the qualification of our employees, point out individual career and development opportunities and promote them. We do this because we are convinced of one thing:

Our employees are and will remain our most important success factor.