YOUR FUTURE, ON DEMAND
The ideal blend of stability and flexibility. A genuinely human employer that cares for people and the planet. True autonomy to shape what comes next, for us and you. This is the perfect platform to take your career where you want.
Back in 2005, we pioneered Europe’s first TV streaming service. Today, we're a leading TV streaming provider with millions of monthly users, and since 2021 we've been ClimatePartner-certified. Over 200 colleagues of 47 nationalities. We’re the grown-up start-up, helping to shape a better future since day one. That hasn’t changed, even if the world has. We’re friendly, international, inclusive – and our people say we’re reliable and transparent, too. It’s why they trust us and believe in what we do.
THE ROLE
We are looking for a Controller to join the Zattoo Finance Team as a direct report to the CFO. You will support the team by providing accounting and controlling expertise for the Consumer business, while proactively and professionally executing the responsibilities and tasks you are assigned to. The position is based in Berlin, while the majority of the Finance team is based in Zurich.
THE FINANCE TEAM
The Zattoo Finance Team combines years of experience along with a high degree of responsibility and professionalism. We are eight people taking care of accounting, controlling, taxes, insurance and various processes centrally for our two companies in Switzerland and Germany.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Responsible for Controlling and all Finance matters relating to our Consumer business, which mainly consists of our subscription business.
- Support with monthly close activities, prepare and provide timely and accurate reporting and analysis, business partnering, forecasting, budgeting, audit, etc.
- Lead and support projects, particularly in digitalisation and automation efforts
- Develop process and system enhancements to improve efficiency and accuracy
- Collaborate with colleagues from other departments e.g. Sales, Business Intelligence, Marketing, etc.
- Act as a primary user and expert of essential financial systems
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- Profound education in accounting and controlling plus a minimum of 5 years of controlling or FP&A experience
- Fluent in verbal and written English
- Experience supporting a distributed team
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Team player with superior interpersonal skills
- Analytical, systematic and strategic thinker
- Proactive and independent working style
- Track record for delivering high-quality work
- Experience with AI and BI tools and methodologies
- Modelling and scenario building, including predictive forecasting models
- Experience in building driver-based business models
- Experience in building state-of-the-art dashboards and reporting for specific target groups
- Strong mathematical skills
- Bonus: Previous work experience in an international environment, experience in business partnering
WHY JOIN US?
At Zattoo, you’re always on firm ground with real freedom to explore. You’ll have the support and opportunity you need to go far, while you’re helping us create a sustainable and entertainment-filled future for all.
WHAT WE OFFER YOU
- Reward: strong market competitive salary
- Recharge: 30 days vacation plus public holidays
- Regulate: trust based flexible working hours and the option for remote work worldwide for up to 8 weeks per year
Plus:
- We’re sharing: Free access to the best streaming experience on the market
- We’re developing: Your own development budget, German classes and Zattoo all-company hack days
- We’re inclusive: ‘Zattooies’ are a fun, engaged, and diverse team made up of 47 nationalities
- We’re healthy: Health checks, mental wellbeing support, team sports and more!
- We’re responsible: We are carbon neutral, an active employee Green team, discounted BVG tickets and free bike rentals
- We’re sociable: A calendar of events with fireside chats, lunches, in-house bar, BBQ’s, monthly socials, summer party and an annual off-site event
Zattoo enables our users to view indiscriminately and we reflect that in our team too. Regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law we encourage everyone to apply and will give everyone equal consideration. We are an equal opportunities employer — join us and help build a diverse team dedicated to revolutionising the way you watch TV.
We are committed to ensuring fair, open, and equitable hiring practices and are happy to answer any questions you may have about us or the role throughout the whole process. In line with the EU Pay Transparency Directive, we share the applicable compensation range with you before your first interview.
You can learn more about us at: https://zattoo.com
Skills Required
- Education in accounting and controlling
- At least 5 years of controlling or FP&A experience
- Fluent verbal and written English
- Experience supporting a distributed team
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Analytical, systematic, and strategic thinking
- Proactive and independent working style
- Track record of delivering high-quality work
- Experience with AI and BI tools and methodologies
- Experience with modeling and scenario building, including predictive forecasting models
- Experience building driver-based business models
- Experience building dashboards and reporting for specific target groups
- Strong mathematical skills
- Previous experience in an international environment
- Experience in business partnering
What We Do
We are one of the leading TV streaming providers in Europe with several million monthly users, serving both B2B and DTC markets. Founded in 2005, we have more than 250 employees and are headquartered in Zurich with another location in Berlin and remote presences in Europe and North America. With our DTC business, users in Switzerland, Germany and Austria watch a variety of TV channels as well as a selection of video-on-demand content on almost all available devices via the Zattoo apps. Since 2012, we have also been running our own B2B business, making our technology available to media companies and network operators as an international TV-as-a-Service platform. Zattoo strives to satisfy existing customers and users and attract new ones by offering state of the art TV features with a superior user experience across many devices and platforms. For our achievements as a TV streaming pioneer, we were awarded the Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for 2020, among others. We act responsibly: We have been carbon neutral since 2020. We are taking active action to further reduce our carbon footprint. As the first TV streaming provider worldwide, we therefore even operate one of our data centres directly in a wind turbine. We are growing and we are looking for new team members. If you like space for creativity, want to feel empowered, if you prefer an atmosphere of continuous learning and trust based working then Zattoo is the right place for you. We have a culture of embracing mistakes as a measure of learning and a very respectful style of working together. At Zattoo we can be ourselves and simply do what we are best at
