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SESeven Education

Director Controlling(m/w/x)

Koblenz, Hamburg, Berlin
Full-timeWith Home OfficeSenior
AI/ML

Building and leading the Controlling & FP&A function for an AI-powered EdTech platform. Expertise in driver-based financial models and multi-entity environments required. Workations within EU, Switzerland, and UK.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in Controlling / FP&A
  • Experience in high-growth, multi-entity or investor-backed environment
  • Proven track record in building or redesigning budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes
  • Driver-based financial models expertise
  • Experience improving decision quality
  • Transparency, KPI frameworks, dashboards, and performance reviews
  • Hands-on expertise in reporting
  • Hands-on expertise in forecasting
  • Hands-on expertise in scenario modelling
  • Hands-on expertise in long-range planning
  • Hands-on expertise in financial analysis
  • SaaS exposure
  • Experience supporting M&A processes
  • Due diligence, business-case validation, synergy modelling, or post-merger value tracking
  • Ability to act as independent control function
  • Building strong, collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders
  • Comfort operating in complexity, ambiguity, and transformation contexts
  • Pragmatic, data-driven, and resilient
  • Leadership experience: hiring, developing, and scaling high-performing teams
  • Fluency in English
  • International experience

Tasks

  • Build and lead the Controlling & FP&A function
  • Bring structure, insight, and financial discipline
  • Create transparency across the business
  • Elevate strategic steering
  • Shape how we plan, measure, and optimize value
  • Own the group-wide planning and forecasting framework
  • Develop annual budgets
  • Create rolling forecasts
  • Build multi-year plans
  • Build and refine a driver-based financial model
  • Model revenue, cost, margin, cash, and headcount
  • Establish a group performance-management framework
  • Run a group performance-management framework
  • Define clear KPIs and targets
  • Implement accountability mechanisms
  • Deliver variance analyses
  • Provide forward-looking insights
  • Identify risks and opportunities early
  • Recommend required actions
  • Design management reporting across entities
  • Standardize management reporting across products
  • Improve management reporting across functions
  • Develop dashboards for revenue performance
  • Develop analytics for unit economics
  • Develop analytics for customer behavior
  • Develop analytics for project profitability
  • Develop analytics for cost efficiency
  • Lead financial due diligence for M&A
  • Lead business-case modelling for M&A
  • Lead synergy assessments for M&A
  • Lead post-merger value tracking
  • Define Controlling requirements for systems
  • Define Controlling requirements for data structures
  • Define Controlling requirements for reporting standards
  • Define Controlling requirements for the single source of truth
  • Partner with Finance to translate strategy
  • Partner with Product to translate strategy
  • Partner with GTM to translate strategy
  • Partner with Operations to translate strategy
  • Act as a sparring partner to the CEO
  • Act as a sparring partner to the CFO
  • Act as a sparring partner to senior leadership
  • Challenge assumptions
  • Strengthen decision quality
  • Build a high-performing Controlling & FP&A team
  • Lead a high-performing Controlling & FP&A team
  • Develop a high-performing Controlling & FP&A team
  • Define clear interfaces to Accounting
  • Define clear interfaces to Finance Operations

Work Experience

  • 10 - 15 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • SaaS

Benefits

Flexible Working

  • Flexible working hours
  • Hybrid models
  • Remote work

Workation & Sabbatical

  • Workations within EU, Switzerland and UK

Social Impact

  • Two paid volunteer days per year

Learning & Development

  • Dedicated learning time
  • Access to learning platforms
  • German language courses
  • English language courses
  • Continuous development opportunities

Informal Culture

  • Supportive, collaborative environment
  • Dog-friendly offices

Team Events

  • Team-building budget

Purpose-Driven Work

  • Opportunity to take responsibility
  • Opportunity to shape structures

More Vacation Days

  • 30 days of paid vacation
  • Half-days off on Christmas Eve
  • Half-days off on New Year's Eve
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