We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.
Group Finance & HR Solutions (FHS) as a division takes care of the digitalization of the business processes in the areas of accounting, procurement, financial consolidation, taxes, people & culture, and statutory reporting.
We are seeking a Portfolio and Finance Manager to oversee the financial governance and strategic alignment of our IT project portfolio, ensuring that every euro spent drives measurable impact across the group. This is not a classical controlling role, successful candidate will act as a challenger and advisor to management, providing critical financial insight, driving accountability, and taking full ownership of financial processes and business performance
What to do:
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation processes across departments and whole division.
- Monitor financial KPIs and provide actionable insights to leadership across the whole divisional portfolio.
- Act as a thought partner to senior management – challenging assumptions, plans and forecasts.
- Provide independent, data-driven insights to support key decisions.
- Take full responsibility for financial accuracy and deadlines.
- Ensure compliance with financial regulations and IT-specific accounting standards.
- Collaborate with IT leadership and business units to prioritize and align projects with group-wide strategic goals.
- Act as a key liaison between IT, Finance, and Group Controlling teams.
- Be willing to speak up and challenge decisions when needed.
- Be able to dig into data, identify trends, and highlight areas of concern. Do not wait for problems to escalate – flag risks early.
- Continuously look for process improvements and/or costs saving opportunities.
- Able to change internal processes to adopt a future way of working, using automation or tools in the sense to reduce manual effort and have an impact.
You check these boxes:
- Proven track record within the financial sector and/or IT environment; experience in an international corporation is a plus.
- Familiarity with planning, budgeting, project-, contract- and vendor management in a big group.
- Open to travel to Vienna regularly to join the leadership topics onsite and team days. (~ 20%) (Our office is next to the main station)
- Capable of influencing senior stakeholders without being confrontational
- Follow through on issues without needing to be micromanaged.
- Collaborative, but not afraid to stand alone when needed.
- Being fluent in English. German and any additional CEE language is a plus.
- An experience in leading and motivating people and you create the ideal conditions for the team to reach its full potential; you are energetic, engaging, and visionary and want to become part of an exciting, vibrant community of IT professionals supporting Erste Digital’s mission.
- You empower your team: You promote team responsibility and can create a framework where teams have autonomy and feel accountable for their results, constantly enabling talents to develop further.
- You are interested in technical implementation of IT Projects and how the banking applications are running smoothly.
- You are experienced in different ways of working, like agile models and predictive project management and you know how to manage complex inter-dependencies.
- You are an analytical thinker with the ability to balance long-term, big-picture and short-term implications of individual decision.
Why you will like us:
- Possibility to benefit and learn from our international, talented and passionate community at Erste
- Interest groups and clubs: Take part in discussions and get involved in projects. Numerous interest groups invite you to engage with a topic
- Health Centre – The Erste Campus operates a fully equipped health center that offers all employees a high standard of medical services during working hours.
- Employee benefits – Benefit from special conditions for financial services and insurances, supermarkets, clothing stores and many more.
- Employee Referral Program – Become a talent scout for career opportunities in IT. We are rewarding every successful referral for Erste Digital A competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted - the minimum wage for this position in accordance with the respective collective agreement is EUR 55.176,
- -gross per year. But this is just a formality, we are more than happy to discuss your actual expectations.
The way we are:
Erste Group considers the diversity of its employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.
