Teamlead Corporate Controlling (f/m/d)

About Trusted Shops

Trusted Shops builds digital trust between people, businesses, and AI agents. Every day, millions of consumers rely on our solutions to make secure decisions when shopping online. At the same time, businesses use our products to build trust, strengthen customer relationships, and achieve sustainable growth.

With around 700 colleagues across Europe, more than 25,000 online stores, and over 40 million consumers in our Community of Trust, we are shaping a safer and more transparent digital world. Trust is not only at the heart of our products but also shapes the way we work together. We believe in collaboration, personal responsibility, and the freedom to bring out the best in ourselves through a flexible hybrid work culture.

To strengthen our Controlling team within the Finance Unit, we are looking for you as:

Teamlead Corporate Controlling (f/m/d)

Cologne (hybrid) or Berlin (remote) | Permanent employment contract (full-time)

In this role, you and your hybrid team are responsible for company-wide standards in planning, forecasting, cost and performance steering, and monthly reporting. You connect overall P&L, cost centers, profit centers and SaaS drivers into one consistent steering logic and act as a sparring partner for the Controlling Director, CFO and management.

What you will drive with us

• Manage integrated budgeting, forecasting and mid-term planning, including planning calendar, governance, templates, responsibilities and quality assurance.

• Further develop driver-based forecast models and scenarios for revenue, costs, headcount, profitability and cash, deriving risks, opportunities and concrete actions.

• Own month-end closing and management reporting from a company-wide perspective, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, plan-actual-forecast comparisons, root-cause analyses and management-ready commentary.

• Further develop the cost center structure, cost type logic and profit center basis together with Accounting, Business Controlling and Business Intelligence, including in the context of the cost-of-sales method and intangible assets.

• Ensure effective cost controlling by creating transparency around cost development, commitments, savings, overspends and budget phasing, and by following up on agreed measures.

• Create multi-level contribution margin calculations for units, customer segments or further steering dimensions, and define transparent allocation and margin logic.

• Integrate SaaS drivers and KPIs such as ARR, churn, expansion, gross margin, CAC, CAC payback and usage metrics into planning and reporting.

• Standardise business cases, investment assessments and sensitivity analyses, automate recurring planning and reporting processes with Business Intelligence, and develop the team both professionally and as people.