(Senior) Business Controller (all genders)

ABOUT YOU Holding AG; Hamburg; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 95.000; Vollzeit

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Zusammenfassung

ABOUT YOU Holding AG is seeking a Strategic Planner to translate high-level goals into actionable plans. You will forecast, monitor KPIs, and align budgets with Buying and Merchandising, while supporting decision-making across Pricing, Campaigns, and Marketing teams.

You’ll prepare cross-team analyses and dashboards, drive process improvements, and contribute to data-driven growth in a fast-paced e-commerce environment.

Qualifikationen

• University degree in business administration or a comparable qualification.
• Initial relevant professional experience in planning, finance, controlling, or management consulting.
• Good understanding of common performance metrics and excellent MS Excel skills.
• Strong analytical mindset, strong ownership, entrepreneurial drive, and hands-on mentality.
• Very good German or English skills.

Aufgaben

• Strategically plan key business metrics from top-line revenue and discounts to contribution margin across planning cycles.
• Align annual budgets with Buying, Merchandise Planning, and Partner Management, and track target achievement.
• Monitor current trading and understand performance drivers to create robust forecasts.
• Continuously track core business metrics, analyze plan deviations, and provide clear recommendations for action.
• Partner closely with Pricing, Campaigns, and Marketing to drive commercial steering.
• Prepare cross-team ad hoc analyses and build dashboards to support data-driven decisions.
• Drive process optimization and further automate planning processes.

Kenntnisse

MS Excel

Analytical thinking

Ownership / entrepreneurial drive

German language

English language

Ausbildung

University degree in business administration or a comparable qualification

Tools

SQL

Looker Studio

Jobbeschreibung

• Full-time

Company Description

ABOUT YOU is one of Europe’s fastest growing e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg and Berlin, we operate at the intersection of fashion and technology. Our mission is to rethink online shopping and make it personal and seamless. This takes more than good ideas. It takes people who take initiative and challenge the status quo. We believe in flat hierarchies, direct communication, and pragmatic decisions. No long approval chains. Just ownership, trust, and clear responsibility. We work hard, but we also believe in enjoying the ride together - over team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, or a quick coffee in between meetings.If this sounds like you, ABOUT YOU could be the right place to bring in your perspective.

Job Description

OurStrategic Planning Teamplays a crucial role in translating high-level business goals into actionable strategies, ensuring alignment across departments and building a bridge between the finance department and the supply business teams. By breaking down ABOUT YOU’s overall revenue and profit goals into clear, consumable input, we empower teams to work efficiently toward achieving company objectives. Planning is conducted at different levels of granularity – from the strategic 5-year plan to the fiscal year plan, monthly targets, and daily forecasts. We continuously monitor our KPIs, analyze deviations, and drive corrective actions. Through precise forecasting and target setting, as well as campaigns and performance analysis, we provide data-driven insights and hence support and guide our various stakeholders, like Pricing, Marketing, Merchandise Planning, Partner Management or Logistics, in their business decisions.

Strategically plan key business metrics from top-line revenue and discounts down to contribution margin across diverse planning cycles such as fiscal year planning, monthly targets, and rolling 16-week forecasts

Align annual budgets with business teams such as Buying, Merchandise Planning, and Partner Management, and track target achievement throughout the year

Monitor current trading and understand performance drivers to create robust and high-accuracy forecasts

Continuously track core business and performance metrics, analyze plan deviations, and provide clear recommendations for action

Partner closely with the Pricing, Campaigns, and Marketing teams to drive the commercial steering of ABOUT YOU

Prepare cross-team ad hoc analyses and build dashboards to support data-driven decision-making across teams

Drive process optimization and further automate our planning processes

Qualifications

• University degree in business administration or a comparable qualification
• Initial relevant professional experience in planning, finance, controlling, or management consulting, ideally in a dynamic e-commerce or fashion environment
• Good understanding of common performance metrics and excellent MS Excel skills
• Strong analytical mindset, strong ownership, entrepreneurial drive, and hands-on mentality
• Very good German or English skills

Nice To Have

• Basic knowledge of SQL and/or Google Looker Studio is a plus

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