🕒 4 days ago
Partner with business unit leaders to guide financial decisions through analysis, forecasting, reporting, and scenario modelling, while shaping budgets, improving performance, and identifying cost-saving strategies.
People Controlling and Analytics Manager (m/f/d)
🕒 15 days ago
📍 Some Unzer Locations - Hybrid🎹 Mid-level🏛️ FP&A Analyst📢 🇬🇧 English Required📢 🇩🇪 German Required💼 Full-Time
People AnalyticsControllingWorkforce PlanningForecasting
📜 Description
- Analyze personnel cost and FTE variances, identify drivers and risks, and recommend actions.
- Lead workforce planning, forecasting, and scenario modeling to assess financial impacts and inform decisions.
- Support monthly and annual People function closing activities, maintaining methodological consistency and audit readiness.
- Develop and improve dashboards, models, and KPI frameworks for headcount, personnel costs, and hiring.
- Standardize and automate analytics and controlling workflows to improve speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
- Collaborate with Payroll, Accounting, Controlling, and Analytics teams to ensure reliable data and reporting.
🛠️ Requirements
- 3-5 years experience in Controlling, Analytics and People Analytics, particularly in forecasting, variance analysis, KPI development, and scenario modeling.
- Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy, prioritize effectively in alignment with stakeholders, and solve complex challenges through a data-driven and AI-enabled approach.
- Strong expertise with analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Excel, BI tools, or spreadsheet solutions), along with a passion for continuously improving processes, models, and analyses through automation, standardization
- Ability to translate complex data into clear insights, impactful visualizations, and actionable recommendations for a variety of stakeholders across Finance, People & Culture, and Management.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and a genuine interest in shaping and improving processes, tools, and strategies at a departmental level.
- High level of initiative, ownership, and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
- Fluency in English is required; German language skills are a strong advantage.
✨ Benefits
- More than a workplace. A place to grow. 🌍
- We set high expectations and give you the flexibility, learning opportunities and practical support to do your best work, grow your impact
- 🏡 Flexibility that works
- Combine focused time at home with connection and collaboration in the office. Our hybrid setup includes two office days per week.
- 🚲 Your commute, your choice
- Choose the mobility benefit that works for you: bike leasing or a Deutschlandticket.
- 🏖️ Work from anywhere in the EU
- Change your perspective and work from another EU country for up to 15 days per year.
Full job description
ABOUT US
Unzer is a leading European fintech company with a mission to simplify international payments for e-commerce and retail businesses. Our brand was formed from 13 companies that now contribute to building a unique product covering the entire payment flow.
At Unzer, we are driven by the belief that customers should enjoy a seamless shopping experience, no matter where they choose to shop. We are a team of over 750 experts from 50+ different nationalities, dedicated to creating a state-of-the-art unified commerce platform. Our goal is to enable businesses to delight their customers with a seamless payment experience.
Whether you're a tech enthusiast, a payment expert, or a dedicated support professional, we are looking for individuals who are passionate about making a difference.
Our offices: We are based across Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Luxembourg with a HQ in Berlin.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Do you want your work to create a real impact? Join our team and help take data-driven decision-making in workforce management to the next level. In this role, you will connect people data with financial metrics and transform them into valuable insights, forecasts, and recommendations for our stakeholders.
You will work closely with Finance, People function, and other business functions to support strategic decisions related to workforce planning and efficiency improvement. With your analytical mindset and drive for continuous improvement, you will actively contribute to the development and optimization of processes, tools, and strategies. You can expect a dynamic, fast-paced environment with a high degree of ownership, where your ideas matter, and you can help shape change.
What your work will look like:
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Own the analysis of personnel cost and FTE variances, identifying drivers, risks, and opportunities, and translating findings into clear recommendations for action.
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Lead workforce planning, forecasting, and scenario modeling, translating operational developments into financial impacts and strategic recommendations.
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Support monthly and annual closing activities within the People function, ensuring methodological consistency and audit readiness.
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Develop and optimize dashboards, models, and KPI frameworks relating to headcount, personnel costs, hiring, and ad hoc analyses, while driving standardization and automation.
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Identify opportunities to improve existing processes and implement enhancements that increase speed, accuracy, and efficiency across analytics and controlling workflows.
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Collaborate closely with Payroll, Accounting, Controlling and Analytics teams to ensure high data quality, consistent KPIs, and reliable reporting.
What you need to be successful in this role:
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3-5 years experience in Controlling, Analytics and People Analytics, particularly in forecasting, variance analysis, KPI development, and scenario modeling.
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Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy, prioritize effectively in alignment with stakeholders, and solve complex challenges through a data-driven and AI-enabled approach.
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Strong expertise with analytics and reporting tools (e.g., Excel, BI tools, or spreadsheet solutions), along with a passion for continuously improving processes, models, and analyses through automation, standardization, and AI.
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Ability to translate complex data into clear insights, impactful visualizations, and actionable recommendations for a variety of stakeholders across Finance, People & Culture, and Management.
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Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and a genuine interest in shaping and improving processes, tools, and strategies at a departmental level.
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High level of initiative, ownership, and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
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Fluency in English is required; German language skills are a strong advantage.
Please note that we will not sponsor your visa or relocation, and you must have a valid work permit to be eligible for this position.
What's next?
- Does it sound exciting? - Apply with your CV in English or German. Please don’t shy away if you don’t meet all the requirements! We’re looking forward to meeting you.
- We will get back to you within 14 days of receiving your application.
- The interview process includes: a 30min intro call with a TA Partner, a 60min conversation with two stakeholders and an approx. 45min Team interview. Please note the process might alter depending on our team’s availability.
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