Senior FP&A Controller (m/f/d)

As a Senior FP&A Controller, you will play a key role in driving the company’s financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis processes. This is a highly operational and hands-on role with a clear focus on FP&A excellence, ensuring high-quality financial transparency and actionable insights for decision-making.

You will work closely with the Head of Controlling and business stakeholders across the organisation to translate operational performance into financial outcomes. Your work will directly influence short- and mid-term steering of the business by delivering reliable forecasts, deep-dive analyses, and clear financial narratives.

The role offers future leadership potential, including the opportunity to take on responsibility for a junior team member as the function grows.

What is your Day to Day Mission:

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Support and drive the annual budgeting process across departments

• Maintain and continuously improve the rolling forecast, ensuring accuracy and timely updates

• Prepare mid-term financial plans and support long-range planning processes

• Develop and run scenario analyses (e.g. sensitivities, what-if analyses) to support business decisions

Operational Performance Reporting & Insights

• Establish and drive operational reporting cadences, including weekly KPI check-ins with key stakeholders

• Monitor financial and operational KPIs, ensuring full transparency on performance, risks, and opportunities

• Perform ongoing variance and trend analyses based on latest operational data and forecasts

• Translate data into clear, actionable insights to support timely decision-making

• Support the preparation of ad-hoc analyses and management updates outside of formal MEC reporting cycles

Business Partnering

• Act as a financial partner to selected departments, supporting them in planning and performance tracking

• Challenge assumptions and provide financial guidance to improve decision-making

• Build financial models and business cases (e.g. cost initiatives, investments, headcount planning)

Data, Tools & Processes

• Work with and further develop planning and forecasting tools (e.g. Anaplan)

• Ensure data consistency between FP&A tools, BI systems, and ERP

• Contribute to the automation and standardisation of FP&A processes

• Improve data quality and reporting efficiency on an ongoing basis