Business Controller Italy

Atlante srl; Milano; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will design KPIs and dashboards, support planning and forecasting, and work with multiple departments to improve financial practices and risk management.

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 variances against budget, forecast, and prior year, 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
• Design, build, and evolve the KPIs and dashboards needed to steer the business
• 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
• 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)

Job description

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).

In carrying out these tasks, the Business Controller will comply with the guidelines of the Company and the Group and with any applicable policy or regulation, managing multiple overlapping projects with a strongly collaborative, team-oriented approach.