About this role
Matsmart-Motatos is a different kind of food store, challenging the thought of sustainable consumption. We’re a European grocery e-commerce, aiding the sustainable reform of our food system by giving everyone a chance to save our planet in an effortless way. We partner with food and FMCG companies to save products at risk of going to waste by re-selling them at discounted prices directly to consumers: sustainable, affordable and accessible to all. Today, our shops are open in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Working at Matsmart-Motatos, you will join our fight against food waste and contribute to making the world a better place. 💚
We are looking for a driven Group Controller who thrives in a high-paced, international environment. In this role, you will orchestrate our global budgeting and forecasting cycles, ensuring seamless execution and timely reporting processes. You will also act as a strategic partner to the business, supporting and providing initiatives that enable optimization of logistics and overhead cost structures.
We are seeking a candidate with a deep analytical mindset, who isn't afraid to take the initiative and challenge the status quo. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will be a key pillar of our finance team, while also staying close to the business partners.
What you’ll do as a Group ControllerStrategic Financial Planning & Analysis:
Forecasting processes and quality: Develop and maintain efficient and scalable forecasting and budgeting processes with a high level of accuracy.
Cash flow monitoring & optimisation: Monitor and ensure a high level of accuracy in our cash flow forecasting processes, as well as supporting the business to execute working capital improvements.
Performance tracking & reporting. Lead the monthly controlling closure, providing deep-dive analysis of actuals vs. budget and delivering insights behind the numbers, while also ensuring timely and accurate internal and external financial reporting.
Operational Partnership & Optimization
Logistics & overhead optimization: Take a lead role in optimizing our cost structures, driving strategic initiatives to improve logistics cost-efficiency and overall operational performance.
Value Creation: Proactively identify, test, and action new ideas to improve overall business performance and bottom-line results.
Investor Relations & Data
Investor relations & financing: Support the CFO in fundraising and optimising other capital sources, taking ownership of financial data requests, pitch decks, and modelling long-term business plans.
Data validation & usage: Serve as a point of reference for Power BI within the Finance domain, acting as the bridge to the data function, as well as building new PowerBI reports to provide insights. Utilise SQL (Snowflake) to extract and support analysis.
To be successful in this role, we believe you need5+ years of experience within business controlling and/or FP&A, preferably in a fast-growing or complex organisations
Have a self-driven, “can-do” mindset and enjoys working in a dynamic environment
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Finance or Accounting
Strong analytical skills
Experience working closely with PowerBI (or similar BI tool) and SQL
Excellent Excel and Google Sheet skills; comfortable working with large data sets
Full proficiency in written and spoken Swedish and English
It’s a plus if youHave a background from E-commerce and or Retail, particularly in sectors such as food, health and beauty
Experience from working with Netsuite (ERP)
Have a curious mindset to deep dive into the transactional details and translating raw data into high-impact business decisions while not losing sight of the overarching strategic big picture.
The Motatos way We’re not only a different kind of food store, with a burning passion for saving already-produced stuff. Above all else, we're a company filled with unlike-minded people who constantly turn our food-saving dreams into reality and are the creators of a remarkable company culture (humble hint: ours).
The Matsmart-Motatos way is all about being human, caring for each other, disrupting to challenge the status quo, and taking action to make things happen because, at the end of the day, food doesn't save itself.