Business Controller Italy

NHOA Group; Lombardia; Hybrid; EUR 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Plus benefits

Job summary

Atlante Italia is seeking a Business Controller to act as the analytical co-pilot to the CEO. You will gather and interpret operational, commercial, energy, and CAPEX data, challenge assumptions, and provide actionable recommendations to steer strategic decisions.

This role focuses on profitability, capital allocation, KPI design, and proactive risk assessment within a hybrid Milan-based environment. Starting salary around €45,000 with benefits.

Qualifications

• Business partner mindset: focus on return on capital and decision support.
• Independent insight: anticipate questions and offer concepts.
• Gravitas to challenge business decisions with numbers.
• Strong analytics paired with concise communication.
• Comfortable with incomplete data and evolving tools in a scale-up.

Responsibilities

• Act as analytical co-pilot to the CEO of Atlante Italia with concise analysis and recommendations.
• Run detailed analyses of company performance and build ad hoc business cases for new scenarios and profitability.
• Analyse profitability at site and cohort level, explain variances and suggest actions.
• Own capital-allocation analysis: CAPEX vs budget, IRR and payback of investments.
• Design and evolve KPIs and dashboards to steer the business and support pricing decisions.
• Contribute to planning, budgeting, and forecasting, challenging assumptions.
• Provide proactive interpretation of financial and operational matters for decisions.
• Work with other departments to ensure strategy consistency and improve processes.
• Identify, quantify, and share risks and opportunities with recommendations.
• Prepare periodic reporting with accuracy and timeliness.

Skills

Business partner mindset

Independent insight

Gravitas to challenge decisions

Analytical skills

Comfort with incomplete data

Job description

Company Description

At Atlante we develop EV charging stations to enable the transition towards zero-emission: empowering people to move freely in harmony with the planet. We are building Southern Europe’s largest fast and ultra-fast charging network, powered 100% by renewables. Since our launch in Italy in 2021, we serve EV-drivers at our 1000+ stations across Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal.

We believe in progress, leveraging on cutting edge technology to accelerate the electric mobility revolution – especially with energy storage to enhance power from the grid. We are proud of our digital platforms that ensure ease of use and full connectivity. We are Atlanters: a group of passionate and dedicated people always thriving to deliver a reliable service and enjoyable experience to our customers.

Position

Brief Description Of The Role

As Business Controller you are the analytical co-pilot of the CEO of Atlante Italia. Reporting directly to the CEO of Atlante Italia and working closely with the Group Controlling function, you support the company in turning business data into strategic decisions. You gather and interpret operational, commercial, energy, and CAPEX data, challenge assumptions, and do not just provide answers — you ask the right questions, anticipate problems, and bring analysis, scenarios, and actionable recommendations. This is not an accounting, closing, or data-entry role: standard reporting is hygiene, kept accurate and timely, but it is not the core of the job, which is to understand the business and help the CEO steer its decisions.

Value Creation

You create value by turning data into decisions, not by producing numbers. You run detailed analyses of company performance and build ad hoc business cases to test new scenarios and drive higher, more sustainable profitability. You give the CEO of Atlante Italia and top management a proactive interpretation of financial and operational matters, and you help allocate capital well — which sites and investments to build, fix, or prioritise, based on their profitability and returns (IRR, payback). You design and evolve the KPIs and dashboards that steer the business, challenge business cases with independent analysis, and support pricing and partnership decisions. Your proactivity, business judgement, and the gravitas to challenge choices when the numbers require it help Atlante invest well and decide faster.

Core Responsibilities

• Act as the analytical co-pilot of the CEO of Atlante Italia: bring sharp, concise analysis and recommendations that drive decisions, asking the right questions and not only answering them;
• Run detailed analyses of company performance and build ad hoc business cases to explore new scenarios and drive higher, more sustainable profitability;
• Analyse the profitability of the business at the level that matters — site and cohort unit economics, utilization, and margins — explaining not only the variances against budget, forecast, and prior year, but why they occur and what to do about them;
• Own the capital-allocation analysis: CAPEX actual vs budget, time-to-energization, and the IRR and payback of investments, to help prioritise where capital is deployed (which sites to build, fix, or divest);
• Design, build, and evolve the KPIs and dashboards needed to steer the business, not only to measure it;
• Actively contribute to the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process, challenging assumptions rather than only consolidating them;
• Provide active support on case studies and ad hoc projects for the CEO and top management, offering a proactive interpretation of financial and operational matters to inform business decisions;
• Work closely with other departments to ensure the consistency of business strategies, and contribute to the continuous improvement of financial practices, tools, and processes;
• Proactively identify, quantify, and share risks and opportunities, bringing recommendations, not just flags;
• Prepare periodic reporting (kept accurate and timely, but not the core of the role).

Requirements

• A business-partner mindset, not an accountant's: reasons in terms of return on capital, prioritisation, and decision support;
• Proactive, with independent insight: anticipates questions and concepts rather than waiting to be guided;
• The gravitas to sit with the CEO, a Country Manager, or the parent company and challenge a business decision with the numbers in hand;
• Comfortable with the incomplete data and evolving tools of a scale-up, and able to build them;
• Strong analytics paired with sharp, concise communication.

Other information

• Reporting line: CEO of Atlante Italia (direct)
• Area of responsibility: business controlling and partnering – assigned business areas
• Gross Annual Salary: starting € 45.000, according to experience, plus benefits
• Location: Milan office - hybrid remote