(Senior) FP&A Manager

Overview

This role is fully remote, based within +/- 2 hours of CET. The employer is seeking a Senior FP&A Manager to serve as a strategic finance business partner and performance architect.

The position focuses on turning complex financial data into clear insights, challenging assumptions, strengthening planning discipline, and supporting better business decisions—while maintaining a sharp analytical perspective on measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting, monthly and quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
• 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.
• Collaborate with local and group finance teams, senior leadership, commercial, operational, and functional stakeholders, as well as external auditors, system implementation partners, and corporate reporting teams.

Requirements

• Approximately 7 years of progressive experience in FP&A, controlling, corporate finance, or a related finance function; ideally within an international or matrixed organization.
• Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, management reporting, variance analysis, and business performance management.
• Good understanding of relationships between the balance sheet, profit and loss account, and 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

• Contract type: Full-time
• Salary: Starting from €70,000 per annum gross, subject to location, skills, and experience

Benefits include:

• Global, remote flexibility (WorkFlex program to work from anywhere, anytime)
• Well-Being Day (full day off)
• Discounted gym memberships
• Training & Development Allowance
• Annual team meetups
• Equal opportunity employer commitment; benefits may vary by location due to local laws and regulations

Location

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