(Senior) Business Controller (all genders)

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Hamburg, DEU
Hybrid
Senior level
Retail • Software
The Role
Plans revenue, discount, profit, and contribution-margin targets across multiple planning cycles. Aligns budgets with buying, merchandise planning, and partner teams; monitors trading performance, forecasts results, analyzes deviations, and recommends corrective actions. Partners with pricing, campaigns, and marketing teams on commercial steering, builds dashboards and ad hoc analyses, and improves planning processes through automation.
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Company Description

ABOUT YOU is one of Europe’s fastest growing e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg and Berlin, we operate at the intersection of fashion and technology. Our mission is to rethink online shopping and make it personal and seamless. This takes more than good ideas. It takes people who take initiative and challenge the status quo. We believe in flat hierarchies, direct communication, and pragmatic decisions. No long approval chains. Just ownership, trust, and clear responsibility. We work hard, but we also believe in enjoying the ride together - over team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, or a quick coffee in between meetings. If this sounds like you, ABOUT YOU could be the right place to bring in your perspective.

Job Description

Our Strategic Planning Team plays a crucial role in translating high-level business goals into actionable strategies, ensuring alignment across departments and building a bridge between the finance department and the supply business teams. By breaking down ABOUT YOU’s overall revenue and profit goals into clear, consumable input, we empower teams to work efficiently toward achieving company objectives. Planning is conducted at different levels of granularity – from the strategic 5-year plan to the fiscal year plan, monthly targets, and daily forecasts. We continuously monitor our KPIs, analyze deviations, and drive corrective actions. Through precise forecasting and target setting, as well as campaigns and performance analysis, we provide data-driven insights and hence support and guide our various stakeholders, like Pricing, Marketing, Merchandise Planning, Partner Management or Logistics, in their business decisions.

  • Strategically plan key business metrics from top-line revenue and discounts down to contribution margin across diverse planning cycles such as fiscal year planning, monthly targets, and rolling 16-week forecasts

  • Align annual budgets with business teams such as Buying, Merchandise Planning, and Partner Management, and track target achievement throughout the year

  • Monitor current trading and understand performance drivers to create robust and high-accuracy forecasts

  • Continuously track core business and performance metrics, analyze plan deviations, and provide clear recommendations for action

  • Partner closely with the Pricing, Campaigns, and Marketing teams to drive the commercial steering of ABOUT YOU

  • Prepare cross-team ad hoc analyses and build dashboards to support data-driven decision-making across teams

  • Drive process optimization and further automate our planning processes

Qualifications

  • University degree in business administration or a comparable qualification
  • Initial relevant professional experience in planning, finance, controlling, or management consulting, ideally in a dynamic e-commerce or fashion environment
  • Good understanding of common performance metrics and excellent MS Excel skills
  • Strong analytical mindset, strong ownership, entrepreneurial drive, and hands-on mentality
  • Very good German or English skills

Nice To Have 

  • Basic knowledge of SQL and/or Google Looker Studio is a plus

Additional Information

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Simply apply online via our career page - we will get back to you as soon as possible!

A Place Where You Can Be You
We take it as our responsibility to create an environment where everyone feels welcome, exactly as they are.
Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger and shape our culture in ways that matter.
What we stand for internally, we stand for as a brand: acceptance, inclusion, and a fairer approach to fashion.

Skills Required

  • University degree in business administration or a comparable qualification
  • Initial relevant professional experience in planning, finance, controlling, or management consulting
  • Good understanding of common performance metrics
  • Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
  • Strong analytical mindset
  • Strong ownership, entrepreneurial drive, and hands-on mentality
  • Very good German or English skills
  • Basic knowledge of SQL and/or Google Looker Studio
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The Company
HQ: Hamburg
196 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

SCAYLE enables brands and retailers to realize their D2C ambition. Easy. Fast. And limitless. With headless commerce technology, international operations, and data-driven marketing. Our commerce engine is proven by the success of ABOUT YOU and allows brands to scale infinitely – empowering them to become market leaders in their industry.

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