What You'll Do:
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the preparation and consolidation of annual budgets and rolling forecasts for EMEA, with a particular emphasis on sales performance, market trends, and customer insights.
- Reporting: Deliver timely and accurate financial reports to sales leaders and senior management, including monthly business reviews, sales pipeline analysis, and ad hoc reporting as required.
- Performance Analysis: Monitor and interpret sales KPIs, variance analyses, and profitability reports to identify opportunities for revenue enhancement and cost optimisation.
- Strategic Insight: Provide actionable recommendations to sales management based on quantitative and qualitative analyses, supporting commercial negotiations and new business development.
- Process Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, systems, and reporting tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in supporting sales objectives.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with finance, operations, supply chain, and marketing teams to ensure alignment of financial plans and sales strategies across the business.
- Monitor and evaluate financial information systems relating to the remit of the role and suggest improvements where needed
- Any further ad-hoc finance duties that may be require
What It Takes:
- A leader who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical business and finance initiatives
- Commercial acumen, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to work effectively in a multicultural, fast-paced European, multi-site, multi-country environment
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrable expertise in sales finance, forecasting, and scenario modelling.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial modelling software; experience with ERP and BI tools.
What's In It For You:
- Annual company bonus – we celebrate success together and reward both individual contributions and overall business performance.
- Well-being support – access to OpenUp, providing professional psychological support to help you stay healthy and balanced.
- Daily lunch and snacks – shared meals in the office create space to connect, recharge, and strengthen collaboration.
- Learning & development opportunities – access to external training and events, as well as our in-house LEARN platform, offering a wide range of courses and workshops to support your growth.
- Regular team events and socials – fostering connection, collaboration, and a strong sense of community.
Our success is built on our people. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic selves and do their best work. Alongside a supportive and inclusive culture, we offer a range of benefits designed to make work both rewarding and enjoyable:
Skills Required
- Lead preparation and consolidation of annual budgets and rolling forecasts for EMEA
- Deliver timely financial reports, monthly business reviews, sales pipeline analysis and ad hoc reporting
- Monitor and interpret sales KPIs, variance analysis, and profitability reporting
- Provide strategic commercial recommendations supporting sales negotiations and new business development
- Drive process improvement in financial processes, systems, and reporting tools
- Work cross-functionally with finance, operations, supply chain, and marketing
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial modelling software
- Experience with ERP systems and BI tools
- Strong analytical skills in sales finance, forecasting, and scenario modelling
- Excellent communication and stakeholder influence skills; able to work in multicultural European environment
Protolabs Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Protolabs and has not been reviewed or approved by Protolabs.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision options are broadly available and described as good to excellent. Additional protections like short- and long-term disability and life insurance bolster the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — A starting PTO allotment plus paid holidays, along with added wellness and volunteer time, is emphasized, with some roles noting PTO growth over tenure. Paid caregiver leave appears in postings and supports flexibility for life events.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting is offered, supporting long-term savings. This foundation is frequently cited alongside core financial benefits as a strong element of total rewards.
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What We Do
Protolabs is the world's fastest digital manufacturing source for rapid prototyping and on-demand production. The technology-enabled company produces custom parts and assemblies in as fast as 1 day with automated 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding processes. Our digital approach to manufacturing enables accelerated time to market, reduces development and production costs, and minimizes risk throughout the product life cycle. 3D Printing Our 3D printing service offers a wide selection of materials and technologies to create prototypes and end-use parts with complex geometries and detailed features. With tight process controls, careful design reviews, and extensive quality monitoring, we ensure precise and repeatable 3D-printed parts, every time. CNC Machining We use 3- and 5-axis milling along with turning to machine parts from commercial-grade plastics and metals. Our online quoting system and automated manufacturing process enable us to ship parts within 24 hours, helping customers accelerate development and reduce time to market. Sheet Metal Fabrication Protolabs is an industry leader in quick-turn sheet metal parts for both prototyping and low-volume production. Our digital approach to manufacturing enables us to fabricate sheet metal parts in as fast as 5 days. Additionally, we can support our customers’ development efforts with component assemblies, several finish options, and screen printing. Injection Molding Our injection molding service offers two options—prototyping and on-demand manufacturing—which provide customers a tooling solution that aligns with their project’s requirements. It’s used for quick-turn prototyping, bridge tooling, and low-volume production of up to 10,000+ parts in 15 days or less.
