Senior FP&A Controller

WORK LOCATION: Berlin (hybrid, min. 2 days in the office / week)

DIRECT REPORT: Head of Controlling

FULL-TIME

As Senior FP&A Controller, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our financial landscape and supporting our growth objectives. You will be responsible for overseeing corporate analysis, planning processes, and collaborating with various business functions to drive financial success. Your focus will include group forecasting, budgeting, and strategic planning, while managing business cases for investments and growth initiatives.

We are looking for a highly skilled financial expert with a passion for value creation and continuous improvement. You will excel at utilizing digital and analytical tools to generate insights and drive efficiency. You will ensure that financial practices and business processes are aligned with our corporate goals. This is a strategic, hands-on role that offers the opportunity to influence decision-making at the highest levels within the organization. This role requires a strong analytical mindset, leadership skills, and the ability to communicate complex financial data to both financial and non-financial stakeholders. The Senior FP&A Controller will work closely with senior leadership to drive strategic decisions and improve the overall financial performance of the company.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Drive an efficient and effective planning process for the organization, ensuring all factors are considered in developing a robust plan aligning strategic ambition with effective allocates resources.
• Focus the Business Unit Leadership team on the interventions required to keep performance on track.
• Manage and update forecasts, including quarterly and monthly forecasts, budget planning, and long-term plans (e.g., 5-year plans) including scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.
• Handle requests from leadership and stakeholders for presentations, analyses, and support across regions and functions. Provide analytical support and monthly reporting with a focus on key financial metrics like volume, margins, costs, and working capital.
• Support external reporting, including presentations and Q&A sessions for banks and investors.
• Analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial performance against budgets and forecasts. Prepare and present financial reports, including variance analysis, to senior management.
• Continuously update forecasts based on actual performance and changes in market conditions.
• Act as a business partner to your designated business functions by collaborating with the business on analysis and insight generation to support decision making
• Independently drive deep dive analyses into product selection and sourcing performance to generate insights and suggestions to improve long-term Free Cash Flow.
• Drive analysis to identify ROI from proposed tech investments and help in prioritization of projects
• Partner with business teams to drive cost out and optimal cross functional decisions that maximize long term free cash flow
• Own Supply Chain Finance's FP&A and Month End Close (MEC) process from end to end ensuring variances are tracked down and insightfully explained to executive management (finance and business).

• Develop and execute audit programs on Contribution Profit components and provide detailed findings

  WHAT YOU BRING IN:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting or Finance. MBA degree an advantage. Previous experience in a high-growth e-commerce or marketplace company is highly preferred. Prior experience in retail or FMCG environment an added advantage.
• Strong financial modelling, forecasting and budgeting skills.
• Experience in multiple finance roles. Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision making.
• Experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in management or Financial Performance and Analysis and/or Financial controlling experience.
• Exposure to digital transformation of finance function to deliver efficiencies and productivity.
• Understanding of IFRS and German GAAP (HGB).
• Experience in developing, implementing and driving Financial planning & processes.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Fluent in English and German

  WHAT WE PROVIDE:

The DEVELOPMENT of each exponDOer is of the upmost importance to us:

• You will be assigned to a buddy, who will support, advise and simply be there during there for you during the first weeks of the onboarding.
• Your opinion makes a difference, and you will help us to shape with us expondo’s future.
• We provide learning & development opportunities to promote your constant development.

We offer all our employees the FREEDOM to work how it is best suited to their needs:

• Whether it will be work from fully from the office or a hybrid, we will provide the needed hardware to work in comfort.
• We provide flexible working hours
• We trust our employees to make informed decisions, and your contributions will have a direct impact on our projects and overall success.

In our CULTURE we respect our employees’ needs and care for each other:

• We care about everyone’s physical and mental health, and that is why we provide the best possible conditions for a sustainable work-life balance.
• You will be a part of a diverse team in which good humour, mutual support and respect are highly valued.

The expondo group is an international e-commerce company with more than 350 employees. We are a renowned manufacturer and online retailer of niche products created by experts for experts, operating in Europe and having locations in Germany, Poland, Hong Kong and China. Our focus is to provide our customers with an appropriate and scalable service.

To be a part of the extended expondo community is to be a part of an ambitious and dynamic global company. What lies ahead in terms of future is in the hands of our employees. It is their ideas, vision, skills, and talents which allow for us to succeed in this fast paced, globalizing world. Our purpose is to empower DOers.

It’s time to get it done with expondo and the time is now.