Teamlead Corporate Controlling (f/m/d) in Köln

About Trusted Shops

Trusted Shops builds digital trust between people, businesses, and AI agents. Every day, millions of consumers rely on our solutions to make secure decisions when shopping online. At the same time, businesses use our products to build trust, strengthen customer relationships, and achieve sustainable growth.

With around 700 colleagues across Europe, more than 25,000 online stores, and over 40 million consumers in our Community of Trust, we are shaping a safer and more transparent digital world. Trust is not only at the heart of our products but also shapes the way we work together. We believe in collaboration, personal responsibility, and the freedom to bring out the best in ourselves through a flexible hybrid work culture.

To strengthen our Controlling team within the Finance Unit, we are looking for you as:

Teamlead Corporate Controlling (f/m/d)

Cologne (hybrid) or Berlin (remote) | Permanent employment contract (full-time)

In this role, you and your hybrid team are responsible for company-wide standards in planning, forecasting, cost and performance steering, and monthly reporting. You connect overall P&L, cost centers, profit centers and SaaS drivers into one consistent steering logic and act as a sparring partner for the Controlling Director, CFO and management.

What you will drive with us

• Manage integrated budgeting, forecasting and mid-term planning, including planning calendar, governance, templates, responsibilities and quality assurance.
• Further develop driver-based forecast models and scenarios for revenue, costs, headcount, profitability and cash, deriving risks, opportunities and concrete actions.
• Own month-end closing and management reporting from a company-wide perspective, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, plan-actual-forecast comparisons, root-cause analyses and management-ready commentary.
• Further develop the cost center structure, cost type logic and profit center basis together with Accounting, Business Controlling and Business Intelligence, including in the context of the cost-of-sales method and intangible assets.
• Ensure effective cost controlling by creating transparency around cost development, commitments, savings, overspends and budget phasing, and by following up on agreed measures.
• Create multi-level contribution margin calculations for units, customer segments or further steering dimensions, and define transparent allocation and margin logic.
• Integrate SaaS drivers and KPIs such as ARR, churn, expansion, gross margin, CAC, CAC payback and usage metrics into planning and reporting.
• Standardise business cases, investment assessments and sensitivity analyses, automate recurring planning and reporting processes with Business Intelligence, and develop the team both professionally and as people.

• Degree in business administration, economics or a comparable qualification with a focus on finance/controlling
• At least 5 years of experience in corporate controlling or FP&A, ideally in an international SaaS, software or digital business model
• Responsibility for budgeting, forecasting and management reporting, as well as confident application of driver-based models and scenario analyses
• Sound knowledge of cost centers, cost types, profit centers, contribution margin calculations, and P&L and closing logic
• Conceptual strength, quality orientation and a pragmatic hands-on approach in complex finance environments
• Experience in the functional and disciplinary leadership of hybrid teams, combined with enthusiasm for developing people, responsibilities and standards
• High affinity for systems and data, very strong Excel and modelling skills, and confident communication of complex topics in German and English

Nice to have

• Experience with planning, ERP or BI systems
• Conceptual strength, quality orientation and a pragmatic hands-on approach in complex finance environments

What we offer you

• Hybrid work: Combine flexible remote work with team time in the Cologne office (on-site days depending on your location)
• Workation: Temporarily work from a destination of your choice within EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway
• 28 vacation days
• 2.5 additional days off at Christmas, New Year's Eve and Carnival
• Buddy program (an experienced trustee is at your side)
• Individual learning & development opportunities (internal & external trainings, e-learnings)
• Events (Team Events, Unit Events, etc.)
• Health Pass (free online and offline sports, fitness, and health courses)
• Permanent contract with Europe's trusted brand

At Trusted Shops, we are interested in you as a person - whether you fit in with us is independent of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity. Trusted Shops is clearly committed to diversity and against discrimination.