Financial Controller

About the Role

We are seeking an analytical, detail-driven FP&A / Financial Controller to join our Business Control team.

In this role, you will play an active part in financial planning, monthly closing cycles, management reporting, and business performance tracking across multiple European entities (mainly Portugal, Spain and Poland). You will not simply extract numbers you will help shape them, dig into the mechanics of our financials, identify variances, challenge assumptions, and help provide executive leadership with reliable, actionable data.

This is a hands-on role for someone with solid experience in corporate finance, audit, or FP&A, who is ready to take ownership of recurring controlling activities and contribute to a fast-paced, international environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Month-End Close & Reporting: Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate and timely monthly closures; prepare monthly management reporting packages, P&L reconciliations, and variance analyses (Budget vs. Actuals vs. Forecast).
• Planning & Budgeting: Support the coordination, consolidation, and modeling for annual budgets, quarterly rolling forecasts, and multi-year financial projections.
• Cost & OPEX Control: Monitor operating expenses across departments, investigate discrepancies, track headcounts, and partner with operational department leads to enforce financial governance.
• Business and Financial KPIs: Monitor relevant financial and operational indicators, including revenue, ARR, sales, OPEX, headcount and working-capital items, investigating the main performance drivers.
• Management Reporting: Prepare monthly reporting packages and clear variance commentary for management, translating financial results into operational insights.
• Process Optimization & Modeling: Maintain and enhance dynamic financial models, and reporting automations to streamline cross-entity data consolidation and reduce manual error.
• Ad-Hoc Analysis: Provide rigorous financial modeling and scenario evaluations for business cases, procurement evaluations, and strategic projects.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience: 2+ years of hands-on experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Financial Controlling, or Big 4 / audit.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, or a related quantitative field.

Data & Tool Mastery:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities (dynamic formulas, complex modeling, robust data reconciliation techniques).
• Experience with Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Cognos or similar ERP/EPM tools is highly valued.
• Analytical Acumen: Strong understanding of P&L mechanics, balance sheets, and cost accounting fundamentals; ability to trace variances back to operational drivers.
• Ownership & Urgency: Highly organized, proactive with deadlines, and comfortable handling multiple deliverable cycles in a cross-border organization.
• Languages: Professional fluency in English (working company language). Fluency in Portuguese is an advantage.

What We Offer

• A key position in a growing, private-equity-backed European software platform.
• A dynamic and collaborative team where people support each other and share knowledge.
• A role with real ownership, where your analysis and ideas can make an impact.
• Continuous learning through exposure to different markets, business areas and financial topics.
• An international working environment with close interaction across teams and countries.
• Competitive compensation package with hybrid working flexibility.