Senior Business Controller

Company

About Shoparize

Shoparize is an Amsterdam-based e-commerce technology company operating in 21 European markets. We sit

between merchants and the shoppers who buy from them, and we create value by making a merchant's

performance better than it would be alone. Our data, our expertise and our optimisation are what produce

that difference: we outperform Google CSS, and widening that gap is the permanent job rather than a finished

achievement.

The model is not tied to one channel. We are extending into other verticals and other revenue methods on the

same underlying capability. What stays constant is that we are paid on performance we can measure, across

more than twenty currencies and tax jurisdictions at once.

We are a little over 40 people across technology, operations, marketing, sales and finance. The business is

growing, has recently restructured into a group, and has passed the thresholds to become a middelgrote

rechtspersoon. It is now building the reporting and control infrastructure all of that demands. That is where

this role comes in.

Description

Our commercial data and our financial data do not yet speak to each other reliably enough. Marketing sees one

revenue number, Finance closes another, and the gap has to be argued out rather than looked up. You are the

person who ends that: you define what our financial metrics mean, you make the dashboards and the statutory

books reconcile, and you turn the result into decisions the leadership team can act on. It is a rare mandate at

this stage, and it will not be available again once the definitions are set.

Role

The role

As Senior Business Controller you are the financial heartbeat of Shoparize's performance management.

Reporting directly to the CFO, you own the monthly close reconciliation, financial reporting, forecasting and

budgeting, and you act as the primary Finance counterpart to our BI Specialist so that the data powering our

dashboards and our decisions is accurate, well defined and aligned with financial reality.

You are part controller, part analyst, part data owner. You define what financial data means at Shoparize, you

direct how it is structured and reported through our BI stack, and you translate it into insight for the CFO, the

revenue teams and the leadership team.

This is not a back-office role. You will be commercially engaged, intellectually curious, and comfortable

challenging both numbers and assumptions, including your own.

Position in the team.

This is a senior specialist role, not a management role. You report to the CFO and you

have no direct reports. You hold functional authority over the BI Specialist for everything Finance needs from

the data: you own the business requirements and the metric definitions, and the BI Specialist executes them

technically. You work alongside the Finance Manager, who owns the transactional ledger, accounts payable

and receivable, and payroll administration.

Your first twelve months

Concretely, and in roughly this order:

• Take ownership of the monthly close, and get the dashboards and the books to agree without anyone
  
  

having to argue about it.

• Build the consolidated reporting pack across the group's entities, with intercompany elimination and
  
  

multi-currency translation that hold up.

• Carry the finance side of our first statutory audit alongside the CFO and the Finance Manager.
• Rebuild the budget and the rolling forecast on definitions you have set yourself, in a data dictionary the
  
  

whole business signs up to.

• Then, into 2027, help design and land the move from Exact Online to NetSuite.
  
  

What You Will Own

Financial close and reconciliation

• Own the monthly financial close end to end: completeness, accuracy and timeliness.
• Reconcile operational and transactional data from our systems against financial actuals, and own the
  
  

resolution of every discrepancy.

• Reconcile revenue reported by third-party networks and partners to our own settlement and bank data,
  
  

including sample recalculation of commission and testing of accrual cut-off.

• Make sure the numbers in our BI dashboards and the numbers in our financial statements tell the same
  
  

story, and investigate immediately when they do not.

• Maintain a clear audit trail between operational data, management reporting and statutory financials
  
  

under Dutch GAAP (RJ).

• Work with the Finance Manager on the close calendar, accruals and period-end entries.
  
  

Financial reporting and performance analysis

• Own and continuously improve monthly management reporting: P&L, gross margin, cash flow and market-
  
  

level performance.

• Support the CFO on board materials, investor updates and executive business reviews.
• Analyse revenue, cost and margin performance across all 21 European markets, and identify the drivers,
  
  

trends and outliers behind them.

• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, concise business narratives for leadership.
• Deliver ad hoc analysis to support commercial, operational and strategic decisions.
  
  

Forecasting, budgeting and planning

• Lead the annual budgeting process and the rolling forecast cycle.
• Build and maintain the financial models behind scenario planning, market expansion and investment
  
  

decisions.

• Monitor actuals against budget and forecast; own variance analysis and management commentary.
• Improve the quality, frequency and reliability of forward-looking financial information across the business.
• Support capital allocation with structured business cases and financial modelling.
  
  

Data ownership and BI direction

• Act as the Finance-side product owner for all financial and business data: metric logic, KPI definitions,
  
  

reporting requirements.

• Direct the BI Specialist on the data structures, dashboard builds and reporting outputs Finance and
  
  

leadership need. You own the business requirements; the BI Specialist executes technically.

• Establish and maintain a single source of truth for revenue, margin and cost that holds across Finance,
  
  

Marketing, Sales and Operations.

• Identify data quality issues proactively; escalate and drive them to resolution with the BI Specialist and the
  
  

relevant data owners.

• Make sure the marketing and revenue optimisation data the CMO relies on reconciles to financial
  
  

reporting, so that parallel and conflicting numbers never take hold across teams.

• Maintain a living data dictionary of financial metric definitions, agreed across disciplines.
  
  

Group reporting, audit and systems

• Build consolidated reporting across the group's entities, including intercompany elimination and multi-
  
  

currency translation.

• Carry the finance side of our first statutory audit. Shoparize passed the thresholds of art. 2:397 BW in 2025
  
  

and now qualifies as a middelgrote rechtspersoon; the audit runs with PwC. You produce the

reconciliations that close, the lead schedules, and a working-paper trail a third party can follow.

• Support the integration of acquired businesses into group reporting and the management information
  
  

pack.

• Help design and then land our move from Exact Online to NetSuite, planned for 2027: chart of accounts,
  
  

reporting logic, data migration validation and post-migration reconciliation. The timing is deliberate, a

short financial year and a multi-entity group are worth building around properly rather than lifting and

shifting.

Strategic finance and CFO support

• Work closely with the CFO on capital allocation, liquidity planning and investment prioritisation.
• Contribute to strategic finance topics: market expansion, new product investment, growth initiatives.
• Support preparation for financing activity, investor reporting and due diligence.
• Help shape the financial narrative of the business for internal and external audiences.
  
  

Business partnering

• Build trusted relationships with the commercial, marketing and operational teams, and become their first
  
  

call for financial insight.

• Challenge business assumptions constructively, and help teams understand the financial consequences of
  
  

their decisions.

• Own the financial measurement layer behind our OKRs and KPIs across revenue-driven functions: define
  
  

how performance is calculated, produce the numbers, and flag deviations early. Ownership of the OKR

process itself sits elsewhere in the business.

• Help establish a data-driven, financially disciplined performance culture across Shoparize.
• Support the CMO with financially grounded revenue optimisation analysis, anchored in auditable financial
  
  

data.

What We Are Looking For

• A university degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Economics, Econometrics or a related field, with 5 to
  
  

8 years of relevant experience in business controlling, FP&A or financial reporting.

• Proven ownership of a monthly close or financial reconciliation process. You understand the detail and the
  
  

discipline this requires.

• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, and the ability to move from granular data to executive-
  
  

level insight without losing either.

• Experience working with BI tools and data environments, and comfort translating business questions into
  
  

data requirements for a technical team.

• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and reporting tools. Experience with BigQuery and Looker
  
  

Studio is a strong plus.

• A solid grasp of P&L, balance sheet and cash flow mechanics in a multi-market environment.
• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence finance and non-finance stakeholders who do
  
  

not report to you.

• A high degree of ownership, intellectual rigour, and a low tolerance for unreliable numbers.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment where the processes are still being built.
• Fluent English. Dutch is an advantage, particularly for statutory reporting, audit and interaction with our
  
  

external accountant.

Nice to have

• Experience in e-commerce, marketplace, adtech, SaaS or another high-growth digital environment.
• Hands-on experience with BigQuery, Looker Studio or an equivalent data warehouse and BI stack.
• Experience of a first statutory audit, or of working in an audited environment with a Big Four auditor.
• Experience of an ERP implementation or migration, ideally NetSuite.
• A background in performance marketing analytics, or familiarity with ROAS, CAC, LTV and contribution
  
  

margin.

• Exposure to fundraising, equity or debt processes, or investor reporting.
• Experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, multi-country finance environment, including consolidation.
• A background in FP&A at a scale-up, or in transaction advisory, consulting or an investment-related role.
  
  

Compensation

What we offer

BASE SALARY: €75,000 to €92,000 gross per year, excluding 8% holiday allowance

HOLIDAY ALLOWANCE: 8% of gross annual salary, paid in May

BONUS: Performance bonus on company and individual targets, set annually in writing

PENSION: Shoparize does not operate a pension scheme today. A company-wide scheme is under review, and you are included from the day it takes effect

30% RULING: We support the application where you qualify

Where you land in the range depends on experience and on how you assess against the role, not on what you earned before. We do not ask for salary history.

Time, place and everything else

• 25 days of annual leave, plus 15 work-from-anywhere days a year.
• Our office at Rokin 115, in the centre of Amsterdam, with hybrid working and a minimum of three days a
  
  

week in the office.

• An NS Business Card for your commute and business travel.
• A laptop of your choice, Mac or Windows, and a company phone.
• ClassPass membership, 33 credits a month.
• A flexible training and development budget, against an approved business case.
• A seat at the table: direct access to the CFO and real influence on how the business is steered.
• The chance to define what financial truth looks like at Shoparize, which is a rare mandate at this stage and
  
  

will not come round twice.

• Colleagues who are good at what they do, and healthy snacks in the office for the days when that is not
  
  

enough.

How We Hire

We keep it short and we tell you where you stand at every step.

• Introductory call with our HR and Talent Acquisition Lead, 30 minutes.
• Interview with the CFO, 60 minutes. Scope, motivation and how you think.
• A short case study, prepared in your own time, discussed with the CFO and one member of the leadership
  
  

team.

• Final conversation with the CEO.
• Offer, references, contract.
  
  

We aim to move from first call to offer within three weeks.

Interested?

Send your CV and a short note about why this role, to hr@shoparize.com. A cover letter is not required. If you

are not sure whether you fit, write to us anyway and tell us which part you would find hardest, we read those

with interest.

Shoparize is an equal opportunity employer. We select on capability against the requirements of this role, and we welcome applicants regardless of background. If you need an adjustment at any stage of the process, tell us and we will arrange it.

Your application data is processed by Shoparize B.V. for the purpose of this selection procedure, on the basis of our legitimate interest in filling the role. We keep your data for four weeks after the procedure closes, or for one year with your consent, and we do not share it outside the hiring team. You can withdraw consent or ask us to delete your data at any time by writing to hr@shoparize.com.

About Us

Shoparize is a fast-growing e-commerce scale-up active in 21 European markets. We are on a mission to create the smartest and most performance-driven shopping platform in Europe. With a growing team of over 40 employees across tech, operations, marketing, and sales, we are building the foundation to support our next stage of scale. Shoparize. Where Comparison Drives Conversion.