Finance Lead

We are looking for a Finance Lead to drive financial performance and business partnering across our commercial operations. This role goes beyond reporting and forecasting - it is a key partner to leadership, connecting revenue, cost and portfolio economics into a single decision-making framework that supports sustainable growth.

Responsibilities

• Partner with commercial and business leadership on revenue planning, forecasting and business-line performance, translating market and product dynamics into financial decisions
• Own unit economics and margin analysis across products and business lines: identify revenue and cost drivers, pricing effects, and profitability levers
• Define and monitor performance KPIs (revenue-to-cost ratios, operating leverage, margin trends) and translate them into actionable recommendations for leadership
• Drive cost control and operating efficiency: optimize OPEX, enforce budget discipline, and implement best-practice cost governance
• Own the full budgeting cycle, revenue and cost sides: develop approaches, templates, and assumptions for annual and periodic planning across the business
• Consolidate budgets and build the unified management P&L, covering revenue, costs and key business drivers across entities
• Develop and maintain management reporting methodology: chart of accounts structure, allocation rules, and cross-entity reporting logic
• Deliver regular management reporting (plan/actual/forecast), including variance analysis across revenue and expenses, for leadership
• Support headcount and payroll planning in partnership with business leaders and Accounting 
• Lead the transition from spreadsheets to ERP/BI-based budgeting and reporting as a single source of truth
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, including Delegation of Authority and budget limits
• Partner with Accounting to align management and statutory reporting

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, or Statistics is preferred
• Progressive experience in finance, including leadership in managing processes and teams
• Proven experience in commercial finance, business partnering, or financial planning and budgeting, ideally across multiple business lines or entities
• Strong understanding of both cost and revenue sides of the business (P&L, unit economics, revenue drivers)
• Experience in management consolidation and building management reporting
• Experience in headcount and payroll planning
• Knowledge of budget control practices and financial governance (DoA, limits)
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with ERP/BI systems
• Strong foundation in management accounting and financial analysis
• Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and able to consistently meet tight deadlines
• Effective communicator with the ability to partner with C-level executives, Accounting, and cross-functional stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement financial methodologies and processes, going beyond execution into structuring and optimization

Nice to Have

• Experience implementing budgeting processes in ERP systems
• Background in fintech, brokerage, or multi-entity international group structures
  

We Offer

• Opportunity to work for a leading international brokerage company
• Opportunity to make an impact: shape systems, drive change, and see the tangible results of your work
• 20 paid vacation days per year
• 10 paid sick leave days per year
• Public holidays according to company policy
• Medical insurance
• Remote work opportunity
• Professional education budget
• Language learning budget
• Wellness budget (gym membership, sports gear, etc.)

Role mission

Improve the operating-expense efficiency of the group through budget-process discipline, control of budget limits, and methodological integrity of management consolidation.

Requirements hard skills

• Group/holding-level OPEX budgeting.
• Management consolidation and building the management P&L; understanding of methodological differences vs. statutory consolidation.
• Headcount and payroll (FOP) planning.
• Delegation of Authority / budget-limit control.
• Advanced Excel / financial modeling; experience with BI / ERP systems.
• Solid grounding in management accounting and financial analysis (unit economics, cost drivers).

Requirements soft skills

• Leadership and management of a team.
• Analytical thinking, attention to detail, deadline discipline.
• Communication with top management and adjacent functions (Accounting, business owners).
• Ability to build processes and methodology, not only execute.

Responsibilities

1. Own the full group budgeting cycle: set templates and assumptions for the annual and monthly OPEX budgets, and drive department owners through the process as a partner and challenger.
2. Consolidate departmental budgets into a single holding management P&L, and own the management-consolidation methodology: item structure, perimeters, allocations and intercompany.
3. Own the group's management reporting and management P&L: deliver monthly plan/actual/forecast analytics to top management and the Board on the agreed close timeline.
4. Move budgeting and management reporting off spreadsheets into BAS ERP and build the reporting layer on ERP data as the single source of truth.
5. Drive operating-expense efficiency and operating leverage: analyse cost drivers and unit economics, challenge spend and identify savings so OPEX growth stays below revenue growth.
6. Define and track efficiency metrics across departments and business lines, cost efficiency, unit economics and operating leverage, and report them to management to steer decisions.
6. Control budget limits and enforce the Delegation of Authority, maintain the DoA / limits matrix, monitor spend against limits, approve expenses within delegated authority.
7. Confirm and sign off on department bonus pools and payouts — validate them against budget, approved limits and performance results before payment.
8. Ensure methodological alignment between management and statutory consolidation with Accounting, keeping the two reconciled.

Will be a plus

Experience with budgeting via ERP systems
Background in fintech, brokerage, or multi-entity international group structures