Managing the Group-Controlling Function Of A Major E-Commerce Group

Daily rate

By arrangement

Expenses

plus expenses

Project duration

as of now - 31.10.2022

Deployment country

Germany

Deployment city

Not published

Required availability

100 %

Industry

E-Commerce

Function

Accounting & Controlling

Service

Operative vacancy

Our client, a major e-commerce retailer, requires the Group Head of Strategic Financial Planning and Analysis (m/f/d) ad interim, with the option for a permanent engagement.

Acting as “the right hand of the CFO”, the Head of Strategic FP&A (m/f/d) ensures that top management sees the “forest from the trees” in financial terms, introducing a holistic capital market view on the company’s business plan and its performance. He or she will introduce and run the internal processes necessary to set performance goals, budgets and accountabilities and monitor achievement on a regular basis, interacting with stakeholders on all seniority levels as required.

Key challenges & responsibilities

• Build integrated financial business model to model, track and plan the company business plan (P&L, Cashflow, Balance Sheet, Revenue forecasting, liquidity planning), including company valuation from an investor’s perspective (DCF modelling)
  
• Continuously translate company strategy and business model into a financial business plan in collaboration with top management and track its execution across time
  
• Own and moderate the company’s financial steering processes (budgeting, forecasting, monthly management reporting) and develop steering instruments suitable to the needs of a fast-paced, highly agile business environment (forecasting tools, scenario modelling, etc.)
  
• Actively monitor and manage the company’s liquidity position and cash-burn together with the CFO and support capital market measures with required analyses
  
• Develop and proliferate revenue driver models with strong linkage to non-financial KPIs and drivers in collaboration with the Business Intelligence team
  
• Actively identify and highlight opportunities for value generation based on an outside-in capital market perspective
  
• Establish yourself and the team as a thought partner for the strategic management of the group and provide respective managers with financial analysis tools to support their business decision needs
  
• Collaborate with the Head of Investor Relations to define and regularly update the equity story of the company and define and deliver the KPIs and reports communicated to external stakeholders
  

Personnel accountability

3 Employees

Budget accountability

1 million Euro

The Ideal Candidate:

• Comprehensive finance knowledge both from an P&L, Cashflow and Balance Sheet perspective
  
• Experienced and comfortable with integrated financial planning and company valuation methods
  
• Ability to define and moderate a recurring budgeting and performance management process in the company and implement the required instruments and tools to run it
  
• Experience with valuation of small, high growth companies
  
• Leadership experience are exisitng
  
• Demonstrated the ability to interact with senior leadership and to lead small teams in an e-commerce, top management consulting, PE or advisory environment
  
• Outstanding analytical capabilities to act on eye-level with CFO, senior management and external investors/analysts
  
• Ability to translate business problems into analytical questions and define the “killer analyses” required to highlight and illustrate the issue at hand to senior management
  
• Ability to understand company’s products, business model and addressable market, and use this insight to inform and develop the company’s business plan
  

Linguistic proficiency