Global Financial Controller

What we are looking for

1. 8-10+ years of total work experience spanning top-tier consulting/auditing (Big 4 preferred) and corporate accounting/controlling. At least 3+ years in a Financial Controller role within a fast-growing, technology-driven international platform.
2. Strong commercial acumen with a proven track record of collaborating with non-financial teams (Sales, Product).
3. Practical experience implementing automation or AI capabilities into finance departments. Experienced with global ERP environments (NetSuite experience is a strong plus).
4. Strong analytical skills, goal-oriented, and teamwork with advanced accounting and finance knowledge
5. Hands-on and autonomous, managing multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment, with experience on transformation programmes - with clear evidence of outcome delivered.
6. Professional fluency in English is mandatory. Professional proficiency in Spanish or Italian is highly valued given our corporate headquarters and leadership team footprint.
7. Ability to influence stakeholders to help achieve your goals
8. An empathetic, inclusive and curious attitude

The Opportunity

We are looking for a driven, highly analytical, and future-focused Global Financial Controller (m/w/d) to lead our global controlling function from our Barcelona office. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will transcend traditional financial reporting to become a key commercial architect of our international growth, managing a team of approximately 10 people.

As we scale up, understanding our exact levels of profitability is crucial, as is managing the complexity of a fast-growing multinational company with expected revenues exceeding €200 million in 2026. You will be responsible for moving beyond the numbers to provide deep business intelligence, analyzing customer-level profitability, fine-tuning pricing models, and dissecting our performance country-by-country. Backed by Private Equity stakeholders, you will lead the integration of AI tools and financial automation to turn our financial workflow into a highly optimized, scalable global engine.

Success in the first 12 months

• Months 0-3: Assume ownership of the monthly/annual consolidated closing process; evaluate and take ownership of our current finance transformation plan (and financial data structures) to identify clear opportunities for improvement including immediate AI integration and automation.

• Months 3-6: Design and implement an advanced country-by-country profitability framework, establishing clear metrics to track the Return on Investment (ROI) of localized corporate expenditures and expansions.

• Months 6-12: Partner with Product and commercial teams to launch a dynamic customer profitability and pricing analysis model; successfully automate at least 50% of manual reporting workflows using modern financial technology tools and AI-driven anomalies detection.

1. Commercial Controlling & Business Intelligence
• Customer Unit Economics: Analyze and monitor customer-level profitability and pricing architectures, acting as a strategic advisor to leadership on contract margins and commercial structures.
• Geographical ROI Analytics: Define, monitor, and break down the financial split between operating countries, identifying specific country profitability metrics and assessing the ROI on our growth investments.
• Strategic FP&A: Own the global budget, planning, and forecasting cycles, providing the CFO and executive team with actionable, data-backed insights to guide international expansion.

2. Financial Controlling, Audit & M&A Integration
• Global Closings: Oversee accurate and smooth consolidated and multi-country monthly and annual closes under local GAAPs and IFRS. Working to optimize month by month closing process deadlines.
• Reporting Excellence: Champion the preparation of highly accurate financial statements and collaborate closely with the CFO to compile elite, high-impact Board Packs for our Private Equity partners.
• M&A structural alignment: Own the end-to-end alignment of newly acquired corporate entities into the Group infrastructure, standardizing ERP financial systems, accounting policies, and internal control frameworks.
• Synergy Tracking: Establish metric-driven frameworks to monitor, track, and regularly report on the financial synergies and operational efficiencies realized post-acquisition.
• Audit & Risk Management: Lead and coordinate global and local external financial audits while systematically identifying and mitigating cross-border fiscal and accounting risks.

3. AI Integration & Process Automation:
• Next-Gen Tech Adoption: Identify and implement AI tools and workflow automation enhancements within our financial compliance and reporting systems to maximize team efficiency and eliminate manual error.
• Systems Scalability: Drive continuous improvement across all accounting and financial systems, leveraging tools (such as NetSuite) to handle hyper-growth transactional volume effortlessly.