Senior Business Controller – Marketing
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Senior FP&A Controller leading budgeting, forecasting and performance analysis for Babbel’s global marketing activities. Partnering with leaders at the language-learning company on investment decisions and financial models.
Responsibilities:
- Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasting and long-range planning for global marketing activities
- Build and maintain financial models, assumptions, drivers, risks and variance analyses
- Partner with business leaders on performance evaluation, investment decisions and improvement opportunities
- Support strategic analyses and business cases
- Translate financial and operational data into KPIs, insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders
- Collaborate globally to improve reporting quality, consistency and usefulness
- Simplify, standardise and automate planning, reporting and recurring finance processes
- Work across Finance, Revenue and Data
- Build trusted relationships with stakeholders in Berlin and New York
Requirements:
- At least 6 years of experience in Controlling, FP&A, commercial finance, financial analysis or a related field
- Ideally experience in a B2C, digital product subscription or SaaS environment
- Strong track record owning or significantly contributing to budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modelling and performance analysis
- Experience partnering with senior leadership in an international, fast-paced environment
- Strong English language skills
- Ability to connect financial and operational drivers to business decisions and evaluate investment trade-offs
- Ability to build robust models, interpret performance data, identify key drivers and highlight risks and sensitivities
- Ability to explain complex information clearly, make practical recommendations and constructively challenge assumptions
- Ability to prioritise effectively, deliver accurate work, and simplify, standardise and automate reporting and planning processes
- Ability to work in English, the company’s operating language
Benefits:
- 30 vacation days
- 3-month sabbatical opportunity
- Family and life situation counseling
- Flexible working hours
- Remote-friendly options, including Jobbatical for up to 3 months inside the EU and UK
- Fully equipped office with nap, faith and family rooms
- Internal learning opportunities
- Yearly learning and development budget for external training
- Free full access to Babbel and Babbel Live language classes
- Mobility benefits options
- Discounted Urban Sports Club membership
- Employee communities, including FLINTA, DE&I Ambassadors and LGBTQIA groups
- Cultural and regular social events
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