Senior FP&A Manager (12 Month Parental Cover)

• We are looking for a senior finance professional to join us for a 12-month parental leave cover
• In this role, you will be the guardian of our financial data, ensuring our reporting is flawless and our growth is measurable. You will act as a key partner to our CEO and Senior Leadership, providing the insights needed to navigate our evolving market landscape
• You own the end-to-end monthly reporting process, from preparing topline performance updates to managing consolidated management P&L and Cash Flow statements
• You lead the annual budgeting process and monthly forecasting cycles, ensuring that our revenue projections and cost structures are accurate and evidence-based
• You perform regular data health checks between our backend systems and Looker, identifying discrepancies to ensure our reporting is bulletproof
• You collaborate with department heads and senior management across the company, providing ad-hoc analysis and data-driven insights for various strategic projects
• You maintain and update our financial views within LucaNet, ensuring that accounting postings are correctly reflected and the reporting structure meets management needs
• You participate in senior leadership meetings to provide technical financial context and answer detailed questions regarding our performance and KPIs

Benefits

• Well equipped for the mission - To make sure you can be on our journey with full power, we will equip you with a new MacBook, related equipment and use modern tools like Slack, GitHub, HubSpot and Asana. You are missing something – we are always open for new suggestions!
• Our secret fuel - There are no passengers on spaceship xentral – we are all crew. Even though we are physically separated, we enjoy our time together in projects, on coffee dates or virtual company parties very much. Relaxed and laid-back, yet focused and highly motivated. At xentral a healthy start-up culture is alive and well
• Even astronauts don’t stop learning - We love to challenge the status quo and that goes for ourselves too. That’s why we offer you the opportunity to develop yourself further, whether on professional topics or interdisciplinary ones such as feedback training, communication or work organisation. If you have a specific training in mind, let us know
• Our coding universe - While for most people the universe consists of galaxies, stars and asteroids, our universe consists of PHP, AWS, Laravel, Symfony, Kubernetes, Docker and ArgoCD – just to name a few
• Choose your station - You decide where to launch your work day. Whether you want to work from home or from one of our hubs in Augsburg, Amsterdam, Berlin and Munich. Of course we will equip your home base

Qualifications

• You have a solid working knowledge of LucaNet and are comfortable navigating the tool, managing consolidations, and adjusting reporting layouts
• You are familiar with standard SaaS and subscription metrics and understand how to translate these into meaningful reports for B2B and E-commerce contexts
• You are highly proficient in Excel and have experience using BI tools like Looker to analyze datasets and monitor business performance
• You are fluent in English and German (written and spoken) and are comfortable collaborating with senior stakeholders in a professional, remote environment
• You have an uncompromising eye for detail and enjoy digging into data to find the root cause of an error until the numbers tie out
• You have a strong background in accounting or a related finance degree, giving you a deep understanding of P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow mechanics
• Your are Senior Finance Professional with 4+ years of relevant experience