Overview
Remote (Within +/- 2 hours of CET)
This full-time role focuses on leading FP&A (financial planning and analysis) activities while acting as a strategic finance business partner. Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and translating financial and operational data into insights that support senior leadership decision-making.
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.
- 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 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 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 the 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 is a strong asset.
- 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.
- Global, remote work model with WorkFlex (work from anywhere, anytime).
- Well-Being Day (full day off).
- Subsidised gym memberships (discounted).
- Training & Development Allowance.
- Annual team meetups.
- Equal opportunity employer; benefits vary depending on location due to local laws and regulations.
Location
Remote (Within +/- 2 hours of CET)