Head of IT Finance & HR (m/f/d) – flexible within Europe

Walter is recruiting for a

Head of IT Finance & HR (m/f/d) – flexible within Europe

About Walter

For more than 100 years, Walter has stood for competence and quality in the field of machining technology. The company was founded in 1919 by Richard Walter and has its headquarters in Tübingen, Germany. The wide portfolio includes precision tools for milling, turning, grooving, drilling and threading, as well as customer special tools and digital solutions along the value chain. Walter has a global presence with customers in more than 80 countries and about 3 800 employees.

At Walter, we continue our Digital Transformation journey, focusing on technology innovation, process automation, complexity reduction and digital experience. The Walter division belongs to the Machining business area (BA) at Sandvik. Walter’s Digital Transformation & IT team collaboration with Machining BA IT team develops towards leveraging fully the combined strengths of all Machining BA’s divisions, and its increasing number of shared digital & IT platforms driving agility, efficiency and incremental business value creation.

We’re looking for an experienced and agile leader to join our Digital Transformation & IT team (DT&IT) and to drive the execution of our divisional strategy in the primary areas of IT Finance and HR. Other activities related to Sustainability and/or Compliance could be considered as well in this portfolio of responsibilities.

We offer you an exciting digital arena, where customer focus, innovation and collaboration are part of our culture.

Your mission

In alignment with Machining business area IT team, you elaborate and execute on Walter’s IT strategy supporting our Finance and HR business partners and enabling their short- and long-term goals. You’re responsible for maintaining and delivering on our Finance & HR IT roadmap towards maximizing value creation. With your team, you consult with and bring ideas to our Finance and HR business teams acting as their trusted IT Business Partner in all aspects of digital technologies including the effective usage of ERP and other integrated digital products.

Included in your mission is to:

• Ensure the delivery as per plan of various projects from ideation to go-live.
• Coordinate internal and external project resources.
• Run existing platforms with support from other Walter DT&IT team and group level teams.
• Drive, jointly with business stakeholders, processes harmonization and automation.
• Lead and develop a global team of internal SAP (S/4HANA) FI/CO and other Finance systems experts.
• Coach your team, including leveraging best practices in configuration design and implementation, internally and from sister divisions.
• Inspire your team, including promoting exploration of new features and technologies inclusive of Finance related AI use cases.
• Manage external partnerships.
• Provide guidance and support to the HR business team engaging with Sandvik Group stakeholders of HRIS.
• Lead Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) related IT finance workstreams and contributing teams to enable integration of synergies inclusive of standard group reporting and compliance activities.
• Contribute to the DT&IT team strategic thinking and strategy steering.

In this position you report to the CIO and are a member of the Walter Digital Transformation & IT management team. You lead a team of about ten combined direct reports and contractors across Germany, Czech Republic, Romania and France. Travelling to Walter Global headquarters in Tübingen, Germany, is wished monthly.

Your profile

As a good leader, you’re characterized by strong interpersonal and engagement skills – making you great at onboarding teams on a strategic roadmap, sharing a vision and communicating and collaborating closely with the business. You have a high sense of responsibility, service and proactivity, while at the same time being creative, agile and curious. With strong intercultural competence, you easily interact with a high number of stakeholders in our complex environment. Add the following qualifications and you have what it takes to really thrive in this role:

• You have a university degree in computer science, business administration, engineering or a related discipline with an information technology focus or comparable practical business experience.
• More than 10 years of SAP Finance experience (ideally S/4HANA), including at least 5 years in a managerial role.
• Experience of integrating best-of-breed 3rd party finance solutions (e.g. T&E, Vendor management) with the SAP ERP core.
• You bring a deep understanding of structured and process-oriented application design.
• Proven ability to implement Application Lifecycle and Business Process Management using SAP Solution Manager.
• You contribute your expertise by documenting and analyzing business requirements for SAP-based implementations.
• Strong competence in documenting and analyzing business requirements for SAP-based implementations.
• You have experience in managing a DevOps environment
• With very good spoken and written English skills you can inspire others with your ideas and vision.

Our benefits

Walter offers you a modern working environment with flexible working hours, mobile working, a wide range of health measures and company pension schemes. We place great importance on enabling our employees to develop professionally and personally. Safety in the workplace is very important to us and we actively support diversity and inclusion measures.

Our company and culture  

At Walter, we bring pioneering metal and machining solutions to the world of manufacturing – covering areas such as turning, drilling, threading and milling. We’re proud of the “Engineering Kompetenz” we offer our broad range of customers in every stage of their machining processes, and the way we collaborate to help them excel in performance, process reliability and productivity. When it comes to our people, we strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background forms the best foundation for achieving great results. Visit our LinkedIn or Facebook to get to know us and our products further.    

Application  

Please submit your application no later than April 24th, 2026. Read more about Walter Tools and apply by visiting the career section on walter-tools.com (Job ID: R0089561).

Please apply with your complete application documents (letter of motivation, CV and references).

For more information about this exciting job and to learn more about our recruitment process, please contact HR Services

hrservices-germany@sandvik.com