Senior HR Controller

At Deutsche Telekom, we believe that investing in our people is key to unlocking our full potential. Within HR Headquarters, our Group People Development team drives global HR products such as learning, skills intelligence, engagement, and performance management — making Telekom the best place to develop and grow.

To ensure sustainable impact and responsible investment decisions, we are strengthening our financial steering capabilities.

As Senior HR Controller for Group People Development, you will take full ownership of financial planning, forecasting, and budget steering for HR initiatives. You will act as a strategic advisor to the Leadership Team, ensuring financial transparency, target achievement, and fact-based decision-making.

This role combines HR controlling, workforce planning, and financial steering expertise with stakeholder management at senior level. You will proactively shape financial measures, challenge assumptions, and ensure that investments in people development generate measurable business value.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Own workforce planning and FTE steering, including forecasting, tracking, and alignment with business and financial targets.
• Own and drive planning, forecasting, and active budget steering of HR initiatives and investments.
• Analyze monthly results, identify deviations and financial risks, and drive concrete corrective actions.
• Steer cost efficiency and savings initiatives in close alignment with Leadership and Project Leads.
• Act as key interface between HR and Finance, challenging assumptions and ensuring alignment of workforce and financial planning.
• Prepare decision-ready insights, recommendations, and steering options for senior leadership.
• Ensure accurate closing activities (accruals, provisions) in line with corporate standards.
• Improve transparency through dashboards, FTE KPIs, and structured reporting.
• Support selected organizational development and transformation initiatives with structured planning, budget transparency, and implementation tracking.
• Contribute to the preparation and orchestration of key leadership and people development formats (e.g., strategy workshops, learning events, kick offs).
• Help translate strategic people priorities into actionable roadmaps with financial clarity and measurable outcomes.

YOU WILL SUCCEED IF YOU:

• University degree in HR Controlling/Finance, Workforce Planning, FP&A with HR focus, or a comparable field.
• Strong experience in FTE planning, headcount steering, and personnel cost management.
• Solid background in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Good understanding of HR processes and their financial impact.
• Experience working with senior HR stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to turn data into clear recommendations.
• Structured, proactive, and ownership-driven working style.
• Fluent in English (German is a plus).

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE US?

We believe in balance between work and personal life. An attractive and extensive work-life balance portfolio guarantees lasting motivation for employees and thus a better quality of life, promotes physical and mental well-being and contributes to a positive work environment. All this with the aim of providing more freedom in reconciling work, career growth, private life and individual lifestyle. Therefore we offer to our employees over 25 different benefits to improve their personal and professional life in these areas:

• Financial benefits
• Benefits with focus on learning and development
• Benefits with focus on health and sport
• Benefits with focus on family and work – life balance
• Other benefits

For more information about our benefits click to Benefits

Salary

Final salary is negotiable.

We are offering base salary depending on seniority level and previous experience of candidate. In addition to base salary we provide variable part and other financial benefits. Base salary will not be lower than 2000 € /brutto.

Additional information

* Please be informed that our remote working possibility is only available within Slovakia due to European taxation regulation.

Our brand Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia entered the life of Košice region in 2006 under the name of T-Systems Slovakia and ever since has been inextricably linked with the region when became one of the founding members of Košice IT Valley. We have managed to grow from scratch to the second largest employer in the eastern part of the country with more than 3900 employees. Our goal is to proactively find new ways to improve and continuously transform into the type of company providing innovative information and communication technology services.