Finance Partner (all genders)

  • Full-time
  • Department: Accounting & Finance

Company Description

More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of eCommerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.

Job Description

Are you looking for an organisation that is going to invest in you? then join the Global FP&A team at zooplus, Europe’s highly successful and largest Ecom player in the Petcare category.  

Based in our Munich headquarters, we are looking for an exceptional candidate to support our fast-growing business as Finance Partner to the Chief Sales Officer, member of our Exco. Your reporting line will be in the Global FP&A team. 

We want to hire you because you have a lot of potential for a strong career. We want you to be daring, constructive and have a strong result orientation. We are looking for someone that others would describe you as being sufficiently structured, with a strategic and commercial mindset. You are enthusiastic and comfortable with collaborating with a diverse set of colleagues. We dream of you being a strong and effective communicator. 

We expect you to take responsibilities for day 1 and therefore looking for someone with strong leadership capabilities. 

  • Be the right hand to the Chief Sales Officer and be a member of the Sales Leadership team. 
  • Drive responsibility for the topline and bottomline delivery for countries, against yearly targets and long term business ambitions. 
  • Support the CSO with business performance routines (weekly, monthly) 
  • Conducting financial analyses & business cases to evaluate performance on an adhoc basis. 
  • Drive the budgeting and latest estimate process for the Markets/countries with the CSO and FP&A colleagues. 
  • Turn fact-based knowledge into relevant insights and actionable recommendations.  
  • Prepare scenarios with pros and cons and risk mitigations to facilitate high quality decisions . 
  • Communicate in a clear and concise manner, adapting to the audience. 
  • Protect zooplus by ensuring appropriate governance and controls are in place. 

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or consulting role(s) – ~3+ years 
  • Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and SQL, Tableau or Power BI skills 
  • Experienced in financial modelling & analysis, data visualization, and executive communication. 
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills. 
  • Experience in encouraging collaboration and leading processes across cross-functional teams. 
  • Takes initiative, ownership, and drives things to a conclusion. 
  • Top tier Bachelor’s degree, Master’s / MBA degree valued. 
  • Experience with budgeting / forecast development, establishing KPIs to define success, and profitability and unit economics analyses is ideal. 
  • Fluency in English is a must. 

Additional Information

With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 10 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect to work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with colleagues in different locations remotely or face-to-face at the office.

Our benefits:
🐾 20% discount in our zooplus shop
📖 Internal and external training
🎈 Team events
✈️ 28 vacation days and days off on 24th and 31st of December
🏋️ Corporate rates at a local gym chain (Body & Soul)
📱 Company mobile phone for work and personal use

Want to know more? Learn more about who we are and what we do and visit our LinkedIn company profile.

zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.

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