Business Unit Controller

Verve; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k Match

Paid Time Off

FSA/HSA Plans

Parental Leave

Hybrid NYC Office

Free Lunch NYC

Job summary

Verve is seeking a Business Unit Controller to take full financial ownership of the Marketplace Business, driving revenue insights, planning, and performance analysis. You will partner with BU leads and Group Accounting to shape how performance is measured and reported.

You will lead end-to-end P&L ownership, month-end close processes, and the annual budget plus rolling forecasts. This hands-on role offers visibility and impact across the Verve group, with a hybrid NYC-office setup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in controlling or audit in a multi‑entity environment.
• Experience in adtech, SaaS or another platform business.
• Demonstrated P&L ownership and confident financial modelling skills in Excel.
• Comfort working with large ledger data sets and reconciling data across multiple systems.
• The ability to present to, and constructively challenge, senior non-finance stakeholders.
• Structured, accuracy‑focused working style and the ability to meet close deadlines.
• Fluent business English.

Responsibilities

• Own the business unit P&L, end to end.
• Support the month‑end close with accruals, prepayments, and adjustments.
• Present monthly performance to BU leads and Group leadership.
• Drive budgeting, forecasting and modelling for the business units.

Skills

P&L ownership

Financial modelling in Excel

Fluent business English

Stakeholder presentation

Data reconciliation

Attention to detail

Cross-entity experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related

Tools

LucaNet

NetSuite

SQL

Job description

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at verve.com.

Verve For Advertisers is a technology company that empowers brands and agencies to target audiences based on declared intent, following them from initial curiosity to ultimate decisioning, to drive measurable outcomes.

As Business Unit Controller you take full financial ownership of the Marketplace Business— from revenue and cost of sales through to EBITDA. You are the finance counterpart to business unit leadership: you explain what happened, forecast what is coming, and flag what needs to change.

You will join at a point where the finance function is moving from reporting-focused controlling towards forward-looking planning and analysis. This is a hands‑on role with high visibility: you will work directly with business unit leads and Group Accounting, and you will have real influence over how performance is measured and understood across the group.

What You Will Do

• Own the business unit P&L, end to end
  • Take ownership of the full P&L for your assigned business units: gross revenue, cost of sales, net revenue margin, personnel costs, external costs and all SG&A lines
  • Understand and challenge the operational drivers behind each line
  • Safeguard cost center and account‑level integrity, ensuring spend is recorded in the correct entity, business unit and cost line
  • Manage intercompany recharges and eliminations relevant to your business units
• Support the month‑end close
  • Prepare and review accruals, prepayments and manual adjustments within close deadlines
  • Reconcile ledger data to consolidated actuals and resolve differences before reportingProduce variance analysis (month‑on‑month, budget‑versus‑actual, year‑on‑year) with clear root‑cause commentary traceable to source data
  • Contribute to close quality improvements — fewer late adjustments and cleaner first‑pass numbers
• Present the numbers to stakeholders
  • Present monthly performance to business unit leads and Group leadership
  • Translate financial movements into a clear business narrative rather than a list of variances
  • Own the recurring reporting pack for your business units and stand behind the detail
• Drive budgeting, forecasting and modelling
  • Run the annual budget and rolling forecast cycles for your business units together with operational stakeholders, in support of the Director of FP&A
  • Build and maintain driver‑based financial models at the appropriate level of detail
  • Track forecast accuracy over time and explain deviations
  • Support ad‑hoc modelling: scenario analysis, business cases, and margin and profitability deep dives

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of experience in controlling or audit, ideally in a multi‑entity environment
• Experience in adtech, SaaS or another platform business
• Demonstrated P&L ownership and confident financial modelling skills in Excel
• Comfort working with large ledger data sets and reconciling data across multiple systems
• The ability to present to, and constructively challenge, senior non-finance stakeholders
• Structured, accuracy‑focused working style and the ability to meet close deadlines
• Fluent business English

Nice To Have

• Hands‑on experience with LucaNet and NetSuite
• Working knowledge of IFRS in a consolidated group
• Experience in a listed company reporting environment
• Basic SQL literacy

What We Offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus mental health resources
• 401(k) match and generous PTO
• Pre‑tax FSA and HSA plans for Healthcare, Dependent care, and Commuting
• Paid Parental Leave for life’s important milestones
• Hybrid work environment (NYC office)
• Free lunch for onsite team members in NYC

Communications regarding your application will only come from @jungroup.com or @verve.com email addresses.

Salary Range

$120,000 - $150,000 USD

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