Business Unit Controller

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays

Unlimited PTO

Parental Leave

Job summary

Verve is seeking a Business Unit Controller in New York to own the full P&L of the Marketplace Business from revenue to EBITDA. You will partner with business unit leads and Group Accounting, influencing how performance is measured across the organization.

This hands-on role moves beyond reporting to forward-looking planning and analysis, with high visibility and opportunities to shape budgeting, forecasting, and driver-based models.

Qualifications

• Four to six years of experience in controlling or audit, ideally in a multi-entity environment.
• 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 and reconciliations.
• Present monthly performance to BU leads and Group leadership.
• Drive budgeting, forecasting and driver-based modelling.

Skills

P&L ownership

Financial modelling (Excel)

Data reconciliation

Stakeholder presenting

Fluent English

Tools

LucaNet

NetSuite

SQL

Job description

Location - New York / Hybrid (3 days a week)

Department - FP&A & Controlling

About the Role

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 reporting
• Produce 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 Bring

• Four to six years of experience in controlling or audit, ideally in a multi-entity environment
• 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

• Experience in adtech, SaaS or another platform business
• 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 Success Looks Like After Six Months

• You independently own the close and reporting cycle for your business units
• You are a trusted and self sufficient finance partner to business unit leadership
• A documented, driver based forecast model is live and in use
• The close cycle is measurably shorter and manual adjustments have reduced

What We Offer

Just a few of the benefits waiting for you at Verve:

• Stay healthy and covered with our comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Life, and other Insurances
• Support your long-term financial security with our 401(k) Retirement plan with company match
• Save on everyday expenses with pre-tax FSA plans for Healthcare, Dependent care, and Commuting
• Recharge with 12 paid holidays, unlimited PTO, and 3 Wellness Days throughout the year
• Enjoy peace of mind with paid Parental Leave for life's important milestones
• … and even more reasons to join us!

Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Verve does not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate submissions from external recruiting agencies or search firms for this role. Any resumes submitted without a signed agreement in place will be considered the property of Verve, and no fee will be owed for any resulting hire.