Senior Business Controller - Marketing (m/f/d)

Your learning journey in the role

We are looking for a Senior FP&A Business Controller to lead financial planning, forecasting and performance analysis for Babbel’s global marketing activities. This role combines strong financial modelling with commercial business partnering. You will help leaders understand what is driving performance, where investment is creating value and where the business should adjust course.

How you’ll make an impact

• 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.

Your skills and qualifications

We think you’ll need the following experience to succeed in the role:

• 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.

In addition, here are the skills and capabilities we’re looking for:

• 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.

Ways of working

You will work across Finance, Revenue and Data, building trusted relationships with stakeholders in Berlin and New York. The role requires both hands-on analytical depth and the ability to step back, understand the broader business context and make the analysis useful to decision-makers.

Please note that our company’s operating language is English, so you will need to be able to work in English.

Some perks of becoming a Babbelonian

• Enjoy 30 vacation days and the chance to take a 3-month Sabbatical. Plus family and life situation counseling.
• Decide how, when and from where you want to work with our flexible working hours and remote-friendly options as Jobbatical (up to 3 months inside the EU and UK) or work from our fully equipped office with nap, faith and family rooms.
• Learn and grow with the internal learning opportunities, and use a yearly learning & development budget for external training. Learn languages with Babbel for free with your full access to Babbel & Babbel Live classes.
• Take advantage of your mobility benefits options and a discounted Urban Sports Club membership.
• Be part of our employee communities (such as FLINTA, DE&I Ambassadors and LGBTQIA groups), attend cultural and regular social events.

Diversity at Babbel

As part of our ongoing journey towards building a diverse, equitable and inclusive company, we welcome everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in tech. We are a learning company, inside and out, and we encourage you to apply even if you do not fit all the technical requirements - all candidates are assessed based on skills, qualifications and on our business needs.

Please state your pronouns in your application, and let us know if you’d like to be addressed by a name other than the one appearing on your official documents. If you have a disability or special need, feel welcome to inform us, so that we can provide you with the proper assistance in the application process.