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About the Role

As a Strategy & Growth Controlling Manager (m/w/d), you will play a central role at the intersection of Finance, Sales, and Marketing. Together with our Head of Finance, you will further develop the data foundation used to measure, understand, and strategically steer our growth. Your focus will be on building reliable reporting, analyzing relevant performance metrics, and advancing our growth controlling. You will consolidate data from various sources, develop meaningful dashboards, and make transparent which measures and processes are truly effective. This involves not just preparing numbers, but recognizing connections, questioning developments, and deriving concrete recommendations for action from quantitative data for Sales, Marketing, and Finance. Prospectively, you can increasingly take responsibility for growth controlling and other aspects of data-driven corporate management.

Responsibilities

Analyze the economic and operational performance of our Sales and Marketing activities.
Develop relevant KPIs and control logics and create transparency regarding key growth and efficiency drivers.
Investigate deviations, trends, and correlations, and derive concrete recommendations for action.
Support Sales, Marketing, and Finance in making decisions based on robust quantitative data.
Develop existing reports and dashboards and build new control instruments.
Prepare data from different systems in a structured manner and consolidate various data sources.
Ensure that key figures are consistently, comprehensibly, and reliably available.
Work with Excel or Google Sheets, SQL, and suitable BI and visualization tools.
Support the gradual automation of manual reporting and further develop our data landscape.
Work closely with our Head of Finance and support analytical and strategic issues.
Create business cases, scenario analyses, and decision-making bases for key growth initiatives.
Evaluate new projects and measures based on their economic potential and measurable impact.
Handle ad-hoc analyses on questions from Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Corporate Development.
Prospectively take on increasing responsibility for company-wide growth controlling.

Requirements

Approximately one to two years of professional experience in an analytically focused role, such as Controlling, Business Intelligence, Strategic Finance, Consulting, Business Analytics, or in a data-driven start-up or scale-up environment.
Strong understanding of numbers and data, with the ability to analyze large or complex datasets in a structured manner.
Very good knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets, with confident use of complex formulas, analyses, and models.
Experience in building and further developing dashboards.
Ideally, experience with Tableau, Power BI, or a comparable BI and visualization tool.
SQL knowledge is a plus, but not a requirement.
Interest in Growth Controlling and understanding which measures in Sales and Marketing actually contribute to growth and economic success.
Structured, precise, and fact-oriented work approach, basing assessments on reliable quantitative data.
Ability to quickly recognize connections and derive clear, understandable, and actionable recommendations from analyses.
Taking responsibility for tasks and ensuring high data and result quality.
Professional, down-to-earth, and cooperative demeanor, with a willingness to collaborate with different departments.
A background in consulting is an advantage, but not a requirement.
Very good German language skills, both written and spoken.

Skills

Excel
Google Sheets
SQL
BI tools
Visualization tools
Tableau
Power BI

Location

Berlin

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

1-2 years of professional experience

Benefits

Urban Sports Club
Mental health support
Learning budget

About the Company

Talentspring Academy Group is a dynamically growing network of state-recognized digital-first educational institutions with a clear focus on digital professional fields.
We retrain people without formal qualifications, career changers, job seekers, and employees for in-demand roles in the digital world – state-certified, practical, and relevant.
Our programs qualify for future-oriented professional fields in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Online Marketing, and Digital Sales – flexibly designed, close to the job market, and with real career prospects.
We combine the speed and innovative strength of an EdTech with the reach and credibility of established educational structures.
Through strategic partnerships in the education sector, we have a nationwide infrastructure with several hundred locations, deep institutional trust, and direct access to our target groups – via digital and local channels.
We are facing the next growth spurt – with clear product-market fit, AI-first DNA, social impact, and unique market access that no other provider can replicate in this form.
Now is the perfect time to join and help shape the future of education in Germany.

Equal Opportunity

We at Talentspring are proud of the diversity of our team. Neither during hiring nor during employment are decisions made based on skin color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
Talentspring stands for a safe workplace and acts against discrimination and harassment of any kind.
It is particularly important to us that everyone develops to their fullest potential and experiences no disadvantage whatsoever.
We are proud of our diverse team and ensure that we fulfill this lived diversity in every position.