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Lead Group Controller (m/w/x)
📅 Sep 16
Group AccountingBusiness ControllingFinancial ReportingP&L Analysis
📜 Description
- Own Management Reporting: Translate monthly and year-end closing accounts (HGB & IFRS) into insightful Group Management Reporting for P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement.
- Analyze Performance & Business Drivers: Deep-dive into financial data to identify deviations to the plan and partner with business owners to implement effective initiatives.
- Enable Data-Driven Business Steering: Act as a sparring partner to leadership, translating financial insights into actionable recommendations.
- Process Improvements: Drive company-wide process improvements and system enhancements for accurate and transparent financial reporting.
- Build / Lead Group Controlling team: Responsible for building a high-performing team critical to financial steering and reporting.
🛠️ Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience in Finance / Controlling - ideally within a fast-paced scale-up, tech company, or top-tier consulting firm or Big 4 environment.
- Education: Strong university degree in Finance, Controlling, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field.
- Mindset: Strong analytical acumen, high attention to detail, and a proactive, solution-oriented approach to complex financial topics.
- Financial & Accounting Expertise: Good working knowledge of IFRS and German GAAP (HGB)
- Languages: Fluent in English; German skills are a strong advantage.
- Practical experience working with financial tools such as LucaNet and SAP S/4HANA are a plus.
- Hands-on experience managing complex group consolidation processes are a plus.
✨ Benefits
- Shared Success (VSOP Equity Program): Benefit from the long-term growth and success of FINN.
- Fuel your Growth (3.000€ Development Budget): Annual development budget for further training and seminars.
- Family First (Childcare Subsidy & Flexibility): Monthly childcare subsidy and exclusive access to daycare spots.
- Company Pension Scheme (bAV): Employer contribution of 66% towards your company pension plan.
- Experience our Product (25% Car Subscription Discount): Employee discount on car subscriptions or bike leasing.
- Health & Mindset (Sports & Wellbeing): Subsidized EGYM Wellpass membership and professional mental health support.
- Munich Office Life: Barista-style coffee, daily lunch subsidy, and a modern office environment.
- Team Spirit & Corporate Events: Regular team events to celebrate milestones together.
Full job description
Your Role
As a Lead Group Controller, you take a key role at the intersection of Group Accounting, Business Controlling / FP&A, and external stakeholder reporting. You own our Group Management Reporting under HGB & IFRS, deep-diving into P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow performance to explain variances against plan. You turn complex financial data into clear, actionable recommendations that help leadership steer the business. In this role, you also drive data transparency, process and system improvements to scale with FINN's growth.
Ready for the future of mobility? Apply now! Your first point of contact is Annika - we keep things moving fast and guide you every step of the way. Everything you need to know about our hiring process and company culture is in our Careers @FINN.Your Mission
Own Management Reporting: Translate monthly and year-end closing accounts (HGB & IFRS) into an insightful Group Management Reporting for P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement, targeting internal leadership, board, shareholders, and banks. Provide clear commentary on business performance and financial variance analysis against the plan, while continuously developing the structure and content of the Management Reporting.
Analyze Performance & Business Drivers: Deep-dive into financial data to identify deviations to the plan, drivers for cost and revenue and cash flow performance, and underlying root causes. Partner directly with business owners to implement and track effective initiatives and countermeasures.
Enable Data-Driven Business Steering: Act as a sparring partner to leadership, translating financial insight into clear, actionable recommendations to improve business steering and decision making.
Process Improvements: Drive company-wide process improvements, for example strengthening and aligning the monthly provisions process, and system improvements, such as setting up analyses in Lucanet or enabling SAP based cost center reportings, to improve the accuracy and transparency of our monthly financials.
Your Profile
Must have:
Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience in Finance / Controlling - ideally within a fast-paced scale-up, tech company, or top-tier consulting firm or Big 4 environment.
Education: Strong university degree in Finance, Controlling, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field.
Mindset: Strong analytical acumen, high attention to detail, and a proactive, solution-oriented approach to complex financial topics.
Financial & Accounting Expertise: Good working knowledge of IFRS and German GAAP (HGB)
Languages: Fluent in English; German skills are a strong advantage.
Nice to have:
WHY FINN
Shared Success (VSOP Equity Program): We win together. Through our Virtual Stock Option Program, you benefit directly from the long-term growth and success of FINN.
Fuel your Growth (3.000€ Development Budget): Standing still is not an option. With an annual development budget of 3.000€ for further training and seminars, you decide how you want to grow personally and professionally.
Family First (Childcare Subsidy & Flexibility): We support you and your family. Benefit from a monthly childcare subsidy, exclusive access to daycare spots in Munich, and maximum flexibility to balance work and family life stress-free.
Company Pension Scheme (bAV): We think about your future. FINN subsidizes your company pension plan with a strong employer contribution of 66%.
Experience our Product (25% Car Subscription Discount): Become a FINN driver yourself! You will receive a generous employee discount of 25% on your car subscription or can alternatively take advantage of our attractive bike leasing scheme.
Health & Mindset (Sports & Wellbeing): Your energy is our drive. Benefit from a subsidized EGYM Wellpass membership for fitness and sports, as well as professional mental health support.
Munich Office Life: Barista-style coffee, matcha, and the legendary fruit basket await you at our modern headquarters in Munich. On top of that, there is a daily allowance for your lunch (lunch subsidy).
About Us
FINN is Germany’s leading car subscription platform and one of the country's few unicorns in the mobility sector. With over 400 colleagues from more than 40 nations, we are building the future of mobility and making access to your own car more seamless than ever before. What truly makes us proud, however, isn’t just the numbers, but what lies behind them: our strong team drive, the will to challenge the status quo, and the ambition to make a real difference. With us, you have the opportunity to take on direct responsibility in one of the fastest-growing scale-ups in Germany and actively shape our success story. We´re just getting started!
More information: www.finn.com
Equal Opportunities for Everyone
FINN is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are open to all groups of people without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
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