FP&A / Controlling Lead (m/f/x)

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Mannheim

Description

Your Responsibilities

• Further develop the FP&A & Controlling roadmap, including Board-grade planning, KPI steering, management reporting, and strategic initiatives across forecasting, AI adoption, growth investments, profitability, international scaling, and transaction readiness. 

• Own and further develop the annual budgeting, Long-Range Planning (LRP), and monthly forecasting processes, including the integrated osapiens planning model across P&L, cash flow, ARR, headcount, and market assumptions. Drive the FP&A operating rhythm through stakeholder reviews, forecasting discussions, and month-end analyses while continuously improving forecast accuracy, scenario modelling, planning transparency, and Board-grade decision support. 

• Own and further develop the Monthly Trading Update, Board reporting, financing and transaction materials, as well as the overall management steering framework and business review cadence across weekly, monthly, and quarterly cycles. 

• Build a best-in-class integration between Finance, GTM, and RevOps by acting as strategic finance sparring partner and challenger around planning, forecasting, pipeline steering, sales capacity planning, quota design, pricing initiatives, and GTM efficiency. Help ensure that budgets & strategic plans are operationally executed, KPIs are transparently monitored, and commercial performance trends are identified early to proactively steer toward company targets. 

• Build best-in-class cost steering and transparency across all functions and entities, including headcount, vendor spend, and operational investments, while partnering closely with budget owners to improve accountability, investment efficiency, and scalable financial decision-making. 

• Drive AI adoption, automation, and modern FP&A & Controlling tooling across forecasting, reporting, analytics to further position Finance as one of the company’s most innovative and forward-thinking functions. 

• Support the CFO in M&A activities, financing rounds, integration planning, and strategic finance projects 

• Lead and further develop a high-performing FP&A & Controlling team while fostering a culture of ownership, operational excellence, hands-on execution, and scalable finance partnering across the organization. 

Your Experience

• Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field. 
• 7-10+ years of experience in Strategic Finance, FP&A, Investment Banking, Transaction Services, or Controlling. 
• Ideally combines advisory experience with in-house experience in an international B2B SaaS scale-up / hypergrowth environment 
• Proven experience scaling and professionalizing FP&A & Controlling organizations, owning company planning models, preparing board- and investor-ready materials, and developing management steering structures in high-growth environments. 

• You combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution, build models and analyses yourself, actively drive processes and initiatives, and feel comfortable operating in a fast-moving scale-up environment. This is a highly operational leadership role, not a pure people-management position. 

• Strong interest or experience with AI-driven FP&A & Controlling use cases, automation, and modern finance workflows. You are a forward-looking thinker who understands how AI can improve forecasting, reporting, analyses, planning processes, and management steering within a scalable, best-in-class finance organization of the future. 

• Strong understanding of modern SaaS GTM and RevOps organizations, including SaaS KPIs and commercial mechanics such as ARR, NRR, GRR, CAC Payback, LTV, Burn Multiple, Pipeline Coverage, Win Rates, and sales capacity models. 

• You know how to build complex financial models and integrated business plans, including the integration of operational KPIs and GTM drivers into scalable financial steering models. You independently develop and defend driver-based models and bring strong experience with ERP, CRM, BI, and FP&A tooling (ideally NetSuite and HubSpot), combined with expert-level Excel and strong analytical capabilities. 

• Experience working in international finance structures, combined with exposure to financing rounds, M&A, transaction readiness, or capital markets readiness, as well as experience leading and developing small, high-performing teams. 

• Fluent in German and English, based in Mannheim or Munich with regular presence at our Mannheim headquarters. Reporting line: CFO. 

Join us for this and more...

• A fast-growing B2B tech scale-up with unicorn status 
• A purpose-driven mission, working with and for global industry pioneers to solve complex challenges 
• Creative freedom through collaborative teamwork and an open communication culture 
• Flexibility and strong team spirit through our hybrid working model 
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth 
• Sustainable mobility options for environmentally friendly commuting 
• Team events and offsites with our global teams 
• An inspiring work environment in Mannheim (and at our international locations)