Senior Group Marketing Controller (All Genders)

HelloFresh
Berlin
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Finance & AccountingSkills: ["Financial variance explanation","Business partnering","Stakeholder communication","Process improvement","Curiosity"]

Own the month-end close for marketing cost lines and ensure accurate accruals, actuals, and transparent reporting across all markets. Consolidate and challenge marketing budgets, manage guidance and forecasting, and proactively flag variances. Partner with Global Marketing, Finance, and Tech to improve weekly reporting input quality, automate insights (including Databricks dashboards), and support CFO/board reporting with clear marketing cost commentary.

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HelloFresh
HelloFresh
15 hours ago

Senior Group Marketing Controller (All Genders)

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Job Summary

Own the month-end close for marketing cost lines and ensure accurate accruals, actuals, and transparent reporting across all markets. Consolidate and challenge marketing budgets, manage guidance and forecasting, and proactively flag variances. Partner with Global Marketing, Finance, and Tech to improve weekly reporting input quality, automate insights (including Databricks dashboards), and support CFO/board reporting with clear marketing cost commentary.
Location: Berlin
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Finance & Accounting
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the month-end close process for marketing cost lines across all markets, including reviewing and validating marketing accruals.
  • •Maintain clean marketing actuals in the income statement and resolve booking errors, misclassifications, or missing accruals.
  • •Consolidate and challenge market-level marketing budgets, lead guidance creation for business plan cycles, and maintain budget vs. actual vs. forecast.
  • •Produce monthly marketing performance reports (spend vs. budget, phasing, variance drivers) and support CFO/board reporting with accurate marketing cost commentary.
  • •Act as the day-to-day finance contact for Global Marketing teams and document/improve end-to-end marketing close processes and controls across markets.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Pension SchemeRelocation SupportHybrid WorkLearning BudgetGerman LanguageGym MembershipHealth InsuranceCommuter BenefitsSabbatical

Key Requirements

  • •Several years of experience in financial controlling, FP&A, or a similar finance business-partnering role, ideally with exposure to marketing/performance-marketing cost structures.
  • •Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills with comfort working with large datasets and BI/reporting tools.
  • •Ability to explain financial variances clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
  • •Experience running or supporting a month-end close process.
  • •Comfort operating across multiple markets and currencies in a fast-paced, matrixed organisation.
Experience:MarketingPerformance marketingFP&ABusiness partnering
Skills:Financial variance explanationBusiness partneringStakeholder communicationProcess improvementCuriosity
Languages:German
Tech Stack:ExcelGoogle SheetsDatabricks DashboardsDatabricksAI

Company Brief

HelloFresh
HelloFresh is a meal-kit and food subscription company that delivers fresh ingredients and recipes to consumers, offering convenient home-cooked meals through weekly subscription boxes across multiple international markets.
Industry: FoodTech
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Berlin, Germany
Founded: 2011
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