(Senior) FP&A Manager

Overview

This full-time FP&A Manager role is remote and requires availability within +/- 2 hours of CET.

The position focuses on strategic financial planning and performance management—turning complex financial data into clear insights, challenging assumptions, improving planning discipline, and supporting better business decisions. The role involves partnering with local and group finance teams, senior leadership, and other stakeholders, including external auditors and corporate reporting teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting, monthly and quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes across the business.
• Translate financial and operational performance into 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.

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 the balance sheet, profit and loss account, and the cash flow statement.
• Advanced Excel skills and 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, 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

• Salary: Starting from €70,000 per annum gross, subject to location, skills, and experience.
• Global, remote work options across different locations.
• Well-Being Day (full day off).
• Subsidised gym memberships (discount).
• Training & Development Allowance.
• Annual team meetups.
• Benefits may vary depending on location due to local laws and regulations.

Location

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