Senior Business Controller

Company

Shoparize is a fast-growing e-commerce scale-up active in 21 European markets. We are on a mission to create the smartest and most performance-driven shopping platform in Europe. With a growing team of over 40 employees across tech, operations, marketing, and sales, we are looking for a commercially minded and analytically sharp finance professional to sit at the intersection of financial control, business performance, and data.Shoparize. Where Comparison Drives Conversion.

Description

As Senior Business Controller, you will be the financial heartbeat of Shoparize's performance management. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will own the monthly close reconciliation, financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting, while acting as the primary Finance counterpart to our BI Specialist to ensure that the data powering our dashboards and business decisions is accurate, well-defined, and aligned with our financialreality.This role sits at a critical intersection: you are part controller, part analyst, and part data owner. You will define what financial data means at Shoparize, direct how it is structured and reported through our BI stack (BigQuery + Looker Studio), and translate it into insights that support the CFO, revenue teams, and leadership in making faster and better decisions.This is not a back-office role. You will be commercially engaged, intellectually curious, and comfortable challenging both numbers and assumptions, including your own.

Role

Financial Close and Reconciliation

• Own the monthly financial close process end-to-end, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timeliness
• Reconcile operational and transactional data from our systems against financial actuals and own the resolution of any discrepancies
• Ensure that the numbers in our BI dashboards and the numbers in our financial statements tell the same story, and investigate immediately when they do not
• Maintain a clear audit trail between operational data, management reporting, and statutory financials
• Collaborate closely with the Finance Manager on the close calendar, accruals, and period-end entries

Financial Reporting & Performance Analysis

• Own and continuously improve monthly management reporting: P&L, gross margin, cash flow, and market-level performance
• Support the CFO in preparing board materials, investor updates, and executive business reviews
• Analyse revenue, cost, and margin performance across all 21 European markets and identify drivers, trends, and outliers
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, concise business narratives for leadership
• Deliver ad hoc financial analyses to support commercial, operational, and strategic decisions

Forecasting, Budgeting & Planning

• Lead the annual budgeting process and ongoing rolling forecast cycles
• Build and maintain robust financial models supporting scenario planning, market expansion, and investment decisions
• Monitor actual performance against budget and forecast; own variance analysis and management commentary
• Improve the quality, frequency, and reliability of forward-looking financial information across the business
• Support capital allocation decisions with structured business cases and financial modelling

Data Ownership & BI Direction

• Act as the Finance-side product owner for all financial and business data: define metric logic, KPI definitions, and reporting requirements
• Direct the BI Specialist on the data structures, dashboard builds, and reporting outputs that Finance and leadership need; owning the business requirements so the BI Specialist can execute technically
• Establish and maintain a single source of truth for key financial metrics (revenue, margin, costs) that is consistent across Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Operations
• Proactively identify data quality issues; escalate and drive resolution with the BI Specialist and the relevant data owners
• Ensure that marketing and revenue optimisation data used by the CMO is reconcilable with financial reporting, preventing parallel, conflicting numbers from emerging across teams
• Maintain a living data dictionary of financial metric definitions agreed across multiple disciplines

Strategic Finance & CFO Support

• Work closely with the CFO on capital allocation, liquidity planning, and investment prioritisation
• Contribute to strategic finance topics, including market expansion, new product investments, and growth initiatives
• Support preparation for future financing activities, investor reporting, or due diligence processes as needed
• Help shape the financial narrative of the business for internal and external audiences

Business Partnering