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About the Role
As a Financial Consultant, you are responsible for the financial oversight and governance of the company’s Global IT spend, providing high-quality financial analysis, forecasting, and decision support to senior stakeholders. You work closely with relevant business partners to ensure budget alignment, track and analyze planned versus actual cost consumption, and maintain transparency across financial performance and cost drivers. The role includes coordinating financial reporting, supporting cost optimization initiatives, and acting as a trusted financial partner to ensure disciplined and efficient resource utilization in line with strategic objectives. In addition, you contribute to company-wide and intracompany initiatives, collaborating cross-functionally to support financial consistency, compliance, and value creation. This is a high-impact, high-responsibility position that requires agility, sound judgment, and decisive execution in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and present high-quality financial reports for business development and KPI-based performance tracking for IT and Business Stakeholders.
- Analyze monthly costs and investments (variance analysis, Business Cases, etc.) and develop appropriate recommendations for management.
- Provide proactive support for company-wide initiatives and act as the main contact person.
- Organize and align reporting processes while tracking the operational budget for assigned areas and a consolidated view of entity-based Opex and Capex.
- Use financial expertise to provide positive business impulses and identify potential pitfalls.
- Strategically advise stakeholders on individual and combined organizational goals against pre-aligned initiatives.
- Take initiative to enable efficient streamlining of processes and handle Ad-Hoc requests.
- Continuously develop Controlling IT systems, optimizing analysis, planning, and existing management information systems.
- Provide valuable ad-hoc analyses upon request.
Requirements
- University degree in Economics, Business Administration or similar (e.g. B.Sc. / M.Sc.).
- At least 10+ years of working experience within a senior controlling and/or finance role in a large matrix-organization or similar.
- Knowledge of SAP environment is an asset.
- Working knowledge of IT Management tools (such as ServiceWare) is an advantage.
- Very good knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.
- Proactive result-oriented team-player with the ability to work independently and is self-motivated.
- Very good fluency in English (written and verbal).
- German language skills are an advantage.
Skills
- Financial Analysis
- Forecasting
- Decision Support
- Budget Alignment
- Cost Analysis
- Financial Reporting
- Cost Optimization
- Resource Utilization
- Financial Consistency
- Compliance
- Value Creation
- Agility
- Judgment
- Execution
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Communication Skills
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Agile
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years
Education Level
- University degree in Economics, Business Administration or similar (e.g. B.Sc. / M.Sc.)
Benefits
- Hybrid and agile work
- Flexible, multicultural environment
- Work-life balance
- Self-organizing, multicultural teams
- Agile setup
- People development programs and trainings
- Support with individual solutions
About the Company
- METRO.digital drives the technology for METRO, a leading international wholesaler specializing in food.
- We work on a wide range of products from e-commerce to checkout and delivery software.
- Our mission is to make each day a success for our customers and colleagues by building the future of wholesale with passion and ownership.