Senior Controller
Digital transformation support
You can look forward to exciting projects and a work culture that combines professionalism, respect, and the enjoyment of working collaboratively with people as passionate as you. We’ll support you in developing your skills and encourage you to think strategically, develop innovative approaches, and play an active role in shaping the digital future of our customers.
Our creative solutions and customised strategies have stood for digital excellence since 1992. With over 260 dedicated employees, we design user experiences that work reliably and create lasting enthusiasm – from the initial idea to successful implementation.
Your responsibilities
- As a Senior Controller (all genders), you’ll be responsible for preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports, working closely with the accounting team to ensure consistency between financial accounting and controlling.
- You’ll be responsible for coordinating and preparing the annual corporate planning and monthly forecasts, ensuring that the budget is adhered to while working closely with management and the specialist departments and proactively challenging assumptions as well as identifying risks and opportunities.
- You analyse business development, carry out variance analyses and KPI evaluations, and prepare ad hoc and special analyses to enable data-driven decision-making.
- You prepare well-founded profitability calculations and business cases for the entire company, based on which you derive clear, actionable strategic financial recommendations.
- You are responsible for performance reporting and providing meaningful analyses for corporate management, creating precise reports and high quality presentations, and preparing the documents specifically for board meetings and other senior stakeholder interactions.
- You optimise our reporting and planning processes.
- You continuously develop the controlling and reporting processes, provide strategic impulses and actively shape their optimisation and further development to strengthen the company’s financial steering capability.
- You act as a key interface between accounting and business units, ensuring alignment between actuals, forecasts, and strategic targets.
Why you
- You have several years of professional experience in controlling, ideally in an agency or consulting environment.
- You have a deep understanding of financial interrelationships and business processes and are well-versed in accounting according to HGB and ideally IFRS with the ability to translate accounting data into management insights.
- You are confident in using MS Office , especially Excel at an advanced level, and have experience with common IT, ERP, and performance management systems, ideally Jedox.
- You’re solution-oriented and possess analytical skills, a structured, reliable, and precise way of working combined with the ability to turn data into actionable business insights.
- You enjoy working in an interdisciplinary and proactive manner, are a strong team player, and have excellent communication skills.
- Very good German language skills are essential; good English skills are a plus.
Why us
- Flexible working hours without core working hours, mobile work, and full overtime compensation from the first minute on
- Work in beautiful locations with the option of several weeks workation per year in other European countries
- An individual development plan and corresponding training opportunities
- Do you want to cycle to work? With our partner JobRad, we offer the opportunity to lease modern bicycles.
- A strong interdisciplinary team with great team spirit, where you can find listeners or mentors.
- Our Feel-Good team works every day to ensure that all Rays are doing well. This includes catering in the offices as well as after-work, summer, and winter parties – and much more!