Head of FP&A and Controlling

Your role and your team:

As a Leader of our Finance team you will be playing a vital part in shaping the development of the business and our world class product.

Your main focus will be to define the FP&A roadmap including budget and business plan process, ensure accurate controlling, define a portfolio of tools and reports to support decision making and planning at all levels of the company and build and maintain a strong team of analysts. You and your team will be expected to deliver high quality results in a volatile environment for both, controlling of current operations as well as mid and long term planning. This is a highly data driven role, however the successful candidate will deliver impact by interpreting business demands, building complex financial models, and interpreting results with commercial acumen.

Your Day to Day:

• Manage and guide a team of 5-10 FP&A analysts and FBPs
• Lead the development of the reporting landscape to provide accurate and insightful information to decision makers on a timely basis
• Target setting in line with business plan assumptions
• Continuous control of actuals vs. targets for RCs and NRCs to ensure future profitability and adherence to compliance aspects
• Manage and review financial models including rolling forecasting, cash flow models, long range business plans and 3 way financial models
• Interface with key stakeholders across the business to define needs, gain insight into inputs, relationships and dependencies and deliver results
• Lead the annual budget and business plan process
• Coordinate finance projects such as ERP implementation
• Work on any ad hoc projects or tasks as required

Your Profile: 

• Bachelor in Business or a related field, MBA or CPA preferred
• Minimum 5-7 years experience gained in a similar or related role with a focus on financial modelling
• Strong business acumen with the ability to interpret results and see the big picture
• Ability to work in a hands on matter, independently where required and ruthlessly prioritize tasks and projects
• Comfortable communicating with all hierarchy levels of the company, up to BoD
• Knowledge in financial modelling (Advanced Excel, VBA)
• Knowledge in ERP systems
• Highly analytical, proactive and growth oriented mindset is needed to be successful
• Comfortable in a fast paced environment, where needs and priorities evolve rapidly
• Fluent in English language essential, German or any other language would be beneficial

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