(Senior) FP&A Manager

Overview

This role is a Senior FP&A Manager position within a remote-first team supporting international talent and finance operations across borders. The role focuses on turning complex financial data into clear insights, improving planning discipline, and partnering with stakeholders to drive better business decisions.

The position is remote, within +/- 2 hours of CET.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting, monthly and quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes across the business.
• Translate financial and operational performance into actionable insights, including variance analysis, risks, opportunities, and recommendations for senior leadership.
• Partner with commercial, operational, functional, local finance, and group finance teams to support strategic initiatives and improve business performance.
• Build and maintain robust financial models, dashboards, KPIs, and reporting packages to support decision-making and investment cases.
• Ensure alignment between local German reporting requirements and group-level expectations within a U.S. publicly listed company environment.
• Drive continuous improvement across FP&A processes, planning tools, data quality, reporting automation, and performance management routines.
• Collaborate with local and group finance teams, senior leadership, commercial and operational stakeholders, external auditors, system implementation partners, and corporate reporting teams to ensure consistency, impact, and momentum.

Requirements

• Approximately 7 years of progressive experience in FP&A, controlling, corporate finance, or a related finance function; ideally in an international or matrixed organization.
• Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, management reporting, variance analysis, and business performance management.
• Good understanding of the relationship between balance sheet, profit and loss account, and the cash flow statement.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Hands-on experience with ERP, planning, and reporting tools such as Oracle NetSuite, Oracle Fusion, Power BI, Tableau, Anaplan, Hyperion, OneStream, or similar.
• Strong commercial mindset, analytical thinking, stakeholder management skills, and confidence to challenge assumptions and influence decision-making.
• Fluent English is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience preparing board materials, earnings support schedules, management review packs, or group reporting deliverables.
• Exposure to finance transformation, planning system implementation, BI dashboards, or reporting automation projects.
• Professional qualification such as MBA, CFA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent.
• Experience in a high-growth, complex, multinational, or publicly listed company environment.

Compensation & Benefits

• Starting from €70,000 per annum gross, subject to location, skills, and experience.
• Benefits vary depending on location due to local laws and regulations.
• Global, remote flexibility; WorkFlex allows working from anywhere, anytime.
• Well-Being Day (full day off).
• Subsidised gym memberships (yoga, weightlifting, and other activities as applicable).
• Training & Development Allowance.
• Annual team meetups.
• Equal opportunity employer; support available for accommodations during the recruitment process.

Location

Remote (within +/- 2 hours of CET).