Senior Business Controller - Marketing

Lead financial planning, forecasting and performance analysis for Babbel's global marketing activities. This role combines strong financial modelling with commercial business partnering to help leaders understand what is driving performance, where investment is creating value and where the business should adjust course.

What you'll do

• Lead annual budgeting, rolling forecasting and long-range planning for global marketing activities, including financial models, assumptions, drivers, risks and variance analysis.
• Partner with business leaders to evaluate performance, investment decisions and opportunities for improvement, and support strategic analyses and business cases.
• Translate financial and operational data into clear KPIs, insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with teams globally to improve the quality, consistency and usefulness of reporting.
• Simplify, standardise and automate planning, reporting and other recurring finance processes.

What you'll need

• At least 6 years of experience in Controlling / FP&A, commercial finance, financial analysis or a related field, ideally in a B2C, digital product subscription or SaaS environment.
• Strong track record owning or significantly contributing to budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modelling and performance analysis.
• Experience partnering with senior leadership in an international, fast paced environment.
• Strong English language skills.
• Commercial and strategic thinking: connects financial and operational drivers to business decisions and can evaluate investment trade-offs.
• Analytical and modelling skills: builds robust models, interprets performance data, identifies key drivers and highlights risks and sensitivities.
• Communication and influence: explains complex information clearly, makes practical recommendations and constructively challenges assumptions.
• Structured execution and process improvement: prioritises effectively, delivers accurate work and looks for ways to simplify, standardise and automate reporting and planning processes.

What they offer

• 30 vacation days and the chance to take a 3-month Sabbatical, plus family and life situation counseling.
• Flexible working hours and remote-friendly options as Jobbatical (up to 3 months inside the EU and UK) or fully equipped office with nap, faith and family rooms.
• Internal learning opportunities and yearly learning & development budget for external training.
• Free access to Babbel & Babbel Live classes to learn languages.