Trainee Finance & Strategic Controlling

Company:  Greiner AG
Location: 

Wien, AT, 1100 Kremsmünster, AT, 4550

Travel activity:  15
Employment Type:  Trainee

Your Challenge

18 months – 3 assignments – 3 projects: The Greiner Professional Program targets graduates and young talents. The program is the perfect opportunity to shape your own future by opening up the chance to take on responsibility, gain insights into our company, and participate in demanding projects you can develop the skills you need to grow your career. A series of modules together with selective, individual training supports your development. Are you ready?

Your Potential Assignment Fields

  • Business Unit Reporting & Performance Analysis: Provide insights that boost business unit performance.
  • Predictive Analytics & Financial Forecasting: Shape the future by developing models that predict financial trends.
  • ESG Reporting: Drive sustainability by preparing and analyzing ESG reports.
  • Data Digitalization & Process Optimization: Lead digital transformation to improve data accuracy and efficiency. 
  • Sales Controlling: Analyze customer and product profitability to support management decision-making.
  • Value-Based Controlling & Value Creation Initiatives: Implement strategies that drive financial performance.
  • Strategic Investment Controlling & Portfolio Management: Evaluate and optimize strategic investments for maximum impact.

Your Profile

  • You are a recent (or soon-to-be) graduate with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in business with a focus on finance, controlling or related fields.
  • You have a minimum of six months’ work experience during your studies, ideally in industry and/or an international context and you are now using this expertise to make a real impact at our company.
  • You have gained profound intercultural experience by working or studying in a foreign cultural environment – our ideal is a minimum of four months abroad.
  • You are fluent in English; German or any other language skills are an asset.
  • You are a forward-thinker and strategic visionary who is eager to shape our company and drive its growth.
  • You are highly motivated and adaptable, ready to tackle challenges with flexibility.
  • You are mobile within the program duration (for rotations or business trips abroad)

Our Offer

  • The Greiner Professional Program kicks off in September 2025 with an onboarding and networking week together with your GPP peers.
  • The 18 months-program consists of three 6 months-assignments. During program, you will experience Greiner multidimensionally and hands-on in different projects – within one of our divisions or cross-divisional. However, your main work location will be either Vienna or Kremsmünster.
  • You will be paired with a mentor from Greiner management. Additionally, you gain support from a fellow GPP buddy who is one year ahead.
  • Between assignments you will get insights into Greiner through training modules and get-togethers with Greiner senior management and experts.
  • Additionally, your professional and personal development is supported with an individual training budget.

 

We offer a hybrid working model with flexible working hours according to our internal policy. Annual gross salary during the program is EUR 50.000 (fulltime, not all-in) together with other Greiner benefits.

As an employer, we stand for equal opportunities and all qualified applicants are considered without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability status. We have set ourselves the goal of increasing the proportion of women in management and expert positions and therefore encourage qualified women to apply.

Job ID:  2763

About Greiner AG

Greiner, headquartered in Kremsmünster (Austria), is a global leader in plastics and foam solutions. With its three operating divisions Greiner Packaging, NEVEON and Greiner Bio-One, the company is at home in a wide variety of industrial sectors. Founded in 1868, the company is now one of the leading foam producers and plastics processors for the packaging, furniture, automotive industries, for medical technology and the pharmaceutical sector. Greiner generated sales of 2.12 billion euros in fiscal 2023 and employed more than 10,500  people at 118 locations in 33 countries.

The board of directors consists of Saori Dubourg and Hannes Moser.