Global Financial Controller

Bizaway-Srl; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working policy

Office in Europe

Phantom stock participation

Welfare credit per year

Multicultural international team

Job summary

BizAway, a fast-growing travel tech scale-up, seeks a Global Financial Controller in Barcelona to lead global controlling. You will manage a ~10-person team, drive country profitability analysis, pricing, and AI-enabled automation as the company scales beyond €200 million revenue.

You will own the global budgeting cycles, consolidate monthly/annual closes, and deliver high-impact board packs for Private Equity investors, reporting to the CFO.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years in consulting/auditing and corporate accounting/controlling.
• 3+ years as Financial Controller in a fast-growing tech platform.
• Strong commercial acumen and collaboration with Sales/Product.
• Experience automating or applying AI in finance; NetSuite a plus.
• Strong analytical skills, goal-oriented, team-oriented.
• Hands-on, autonomous, capable of multi-tasking in fast pace.
• Fluent English; Spanish/Italian valued.
• Ability to influence stakeholders with curiosity and empathy.

Responsibilities

• Commercial Controlling & BI: analyze customer unit economics and pricing.
• Geographical ROI analytics: monitor profitability by country.
• Strategic FP&A: own global budget, planning, and forecasting.
• Global closings: oversee consolidated multi-country closes under GAAP/IFRS.
• Reporting: prepare financial statements and Board packs for PE partners.
• M&A integration: align new entities into Group ERP and policies.
• AI integration & automation: implement AI tools to automate workflows.
• Systems scalability: optimize NetSuite and other financial systems.

Skills

Financial leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Automation / AI in Finance

ERP systems (NetSuite)

Analytical skills

Transformation programs

English fluency

Spanish/Italian language

Tools

NetSuite

ERP systems

Job description

About BizAway

Here at BizAway, we Deliver the Future of Travel.

BizAway is a tech-enabled B2B travel management scale-up on a mission to revolutionize a $1 trillion market. We provide a user-friendly, all-in-one platform that allows businesses to access over 1 million hotels, 900 airlines, and global rail/car rental carriers through a single, cloud-based interface. By simplifying complex travel user experiences into fast, manageable tasks, we help companies gain better visibility and control over costs.

Founded in 2015, we are now dual headquartered in Milan and Barcelona with a multicultural team of 450+ professionals. Backed by a €35 million investment from Mayfair Equity Partners, we are accelerating our growth across existing markets and expanding globally. If you thrive on challenges and want to be a "revolutionary force" in a fast-paced scale-up, BizAway is where you belong.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a driven, highly analytical, and future-focused Global Financial Controller (m/w/d) to lead our global controlling function from our Barcelona office. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will transcend traditional financial reporting to become a key commercial architect of our international growth, managing a team of approximately 10 people.

As we scale up, understanding our exact levels of profitability is crucial, as is managing the complexity of a fast-growing multinational company with expected revenues exceeding €200 million in 2026. You will be responsible for moving beyond the numbers to provide deep business intelligence, analyzing customer-level profitability, fine-tuning pricing models, and dissecting our performance country-by-country. Backed by Private Equity stakeholders, you will lead the integration of AI tools and financial automation to turn our financial workflow into a highly optimized, scalable global engine.

Success in the first 12 months

• Months 0-3: Assume ownership of the monthly/annual consolidated closing process; evaluate and take ownership of our current finance transformation plan (and financial data structures) to identify clear opportunities for improvement including immediate AI integration and automation.
• Months 3-6: Design and implement an advanced country-by-country profitability framework, establishing clear metrics to track the Return on Investment (ROI) of localized corporate expenditures and expansions.
• Months 6-12: Partner with Product and commercial teams to launch a dynamic customer profitability and pricing analysis model; successfully automate at least 50% of manual reporting workflows using modern financial technology tools and AI-driven anomalies detection.

Your role in BizAway

• Commercial Controlling & Business Intelligence
  • Customer Unit Economics: Analyze and monitor customer-level profitability and pricing architectures, acting as a strategic advisor to leadership on contract margins and commercial structures.
  • Geographical ROI Analytics: Define, monitor, and break down the financial split between operating countries, identifying specific country profitability metrics and assessing the ROI on our growth investments.
  • Strategic FP&A: Own the global budget, planning, and forecasting cycles, providing the CFO and executive team with actionable, data-backed insights to guide international expansion.
• Financial Controlling, Audit & M&A Integration
  • Global Closings: Oversee accurate and smooth consolidated and multi-country monthly and annual closes under local GAAPs and IFRS. Working to optimize month by month closing process deadlines.
  • Reporting Excellence: Champion the preparation of highly accurate financial statements and collaborate closely with the CFO to compile elite, high-impact Board Packs for our Private Equity partners.
  • M&A structural alignment: Own the end-to-end alignment of newly acquired corporate entities into the Group infrastructure, standardizing ERP financial systems, accounting policies, and internal control frameworks.
  • Synergy Tracking: Establish metric-driven frameworks to monitor, track, and regularly report on the financial synergies and operational efficiencies realized post-acquisition.
  • Audit & Risk Management: Lead and coordinate global and local external financial audits while systematically identifying and mitigating cross-border fiscal and accounting risks.
• AI Integration & Process Automation:
  • Next-Gen Tech Adoption: Identify and implement AI tools and workflow automation enhancements within our financial compliance and reporting systems to maximize team efficiency and eliminate manual error.
  • Systems Scalability: Drive continuous improvement across all accounting and financial systems, leveraging tools (such as NetSuite) to handle hyper-growth transactional volume effortlessly.

What we are looking for

• 1. 8–10+ years of total work experience spanning top-tier consulting/auditing (Big 4 preferred) and corporate accounting/controlling. At least 3+ years in a Financial Controller role within a fast-growing, technology-driven international platform.
• 2. Strong commercial acumen with a proven track record of collaborating with non-financial teams (Sales, Product).
• 3. Practical experience implementing automation or AI capabilities into finance departments. Experienced with global ERP environments (NetSuite experience is a strong plus).
• 4. Strong analytical skills, goal-oriented, and teamwork with advanced accounting and finance knowledge
• 5. Hands-on and autonomous, managing multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment, with experience on transformation programmes – with clear evidence of outcome delivered.
• 6. Professional fluency in English is mandatory. Professional proficiency in Spanish or Italian is highly valued given our corporate headquarters and leadership team footprint.
• 7. Ability to influence stakeholders to help achieve your goals
• 8. An empathetic, inclusive and curious attitude

Our offer

• A seat on a scale-up with skyrocketing growth
• Attractive compensation, base salary including phantom stock in the company, and welfare credit per year.
• Development of your entrepreneurial spirit, having the chance to implement real-impact business decisions
• Multicultural and international team
• Collaborative and smart environment to work and learn
• Free coffee to kick-start your day and free beers to celebrate together
• Hybrid working policy and great offices in Europe

BizAway avoids any discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, health status, nationality, political opinions, and religious beliefs in all decisions affecting personnel selection.