Controller, Zalando Payments (all genders) – One-Year Contract

Role: Controller, Zalando Payments (all genders) – One-Year Contract Responsibilities: - Own the consolidation and reporting of Zalando Payments’ financial performance, bringing together inputs across the P&L and ensuring a complete, accurate and consistent financial view of the entity. - Drive the short-term rolling forecast (Latest View) process end-to-end, coordinating with Finance team members responsible for individual P&L lines, consolidating their latest expectations and translating them into a comprehensive entity-level outlook. - Analyze financial performance and variances in depth, identifying the underlying business drivers and providing clear, concise and insightful commentary to Zalando Payments management and Zalando Group Finance stakeholders. - Take end-to-end ownership of overhead controlling, including month-end closing, accruals, variance analysis, forecasting and budgeting across the relevant cost centers. - Partner closely with cost center owners, providing transparency on their financial performance, challenging assumptions where appropriate and supporting them in effectively managing their budgets and forecasts. - Investigate and reconcile financial data across different systems and sources, proactively identifying inconsistencies, understanding their root causes and ensuring they are resolved. - Develop and maintain robust financial controls and reconciliation mechanisms to ensure completeness and accuracy of reporting and to continuously strengthen the reliability of our financial processes. - Continuously improve controlling and reporting processes, identifying opportunities for greater transparency, standardization and automation. Qualifications: - Solid professional experience in Controlling, FP&A or a comparable Finance role, ideally within a complex, fast-paced and data-driven organization. - Strong analytical and investigative mindset: enjoy digging into numbers, reconciling different data sources and understanding the root cause behind financial variances. - Strong understanding of financial controlling processes, including month-end closing, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis and management reporting. - Attention to detail with the ability to connect individual financial effects to the broader P&L picture and communicate the resulting story clearly. - Strong sense of financial ownership and control, proactively putting checks and reconciliations in place to ensure numbers are complete, accurate and consistent. - Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable working with cost center owners as well as presenting and explaining financial developments to senior Finance and business stakeholders. - Comfortable working across multiple systems and large datasets. Experience with SAP and financial reporting or BI tools is highly valued. - Fluent in English and comfortable working in an international environment. Knowledge of German is a plus. - Curiosity, ownership and a continuous-improvement mindset — equally comfortable challenging the numbers and challenging the process behind them. What We Offer: - 27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days) - 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners - Family support, including counselling and dedicated services for parents and careers - Company pension scheme - Employee shares programme - Health and wellbeing options, including Wellhub - Mental health support and coaching - Development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review - 2 paid volunteering days a year - Relocation assistance (subject to prior agreement)