Senior FP&A Controller (m/f/d)
Description
As a Senior FP&A Controller, you will play a key role in driving the company´s financial planning, forecasting and performance analysis process. This is a highly operational and hands-on role with a clear focus on FP&A-excellence, ensuring high-quality financial transparency and actionable insights for decision-making.
You will work closely with the Head of Controlling and business stakeholders across the organisation to translate operational performance into financial outcomes. Your work will directly influence short- and mit-term steering of the business by delivering reliable forecasts, deep-dive analyses and clear financial narratives.
What is your Day to Day Mission:
Financial Planning & Forecasting
Support and drive the annual budgeting process across departments
Maintain and continuously improve the rolling forecast, ensuring accuracy and timely updates
Prepare mid-term financial plans and support long-range planning processes
Develop and run scenario analyses (e.g. sensitivities, what-if analyses) to support business decisions
Operational Performance Reporting & Insights
Establish and drive operational reporting cadences, including weekly KPI check-ins with key stakeholders
Monitor financial and operational KPIs, ensuring full transparency on performance, risks, and opportunities
Perform ongoing variance and trend analyses based on latest operational data and forecasts
Translate data into clear, actionable insights to support timely decision-making
Support the preparation of ad-hoc analyses and management updates outside of formal MEC reporting cycles
Business Partnering
Act as a financial partner to selected departments, supporting them in planning and performance tracking
Challenge assumptions and provide financial guidance to improve decision-making
Build financial models and business cases (e.g. cost initiatives, investments, headcount planning)
Data, Tools & Processes
Work with and further develop planning and forecasting tools (e.g. Anaplan)
Ensure data consistency between FP&A tools, BI systems, and ERP
Contribute to the automation and standardisation of FP&A processes
Improve data quality and reporting efficiency on an ongoing basis
What you bring to the team:
Have 4–7 years of experience in FP&A / Controlling, with a strong operational focus
Have hands-on experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modelling
Are confident working with modern planning tools (Anaplan is a strong plus)
Have strong analytical skills and attention to detail, combined with a business mindset
Are able to translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations
Are comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
Communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
Are fluent in English (German is a plus)
Nice to Have
Initial leadership or mentoring experience, or strong motivation to take on leadership responsibility
Experience in a scaling or transformation environment
Exposure to BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau)
Basic knowledge of data analysis tools (e.g. SQL, Python)
Professional qualification (e.g. CIMA, ACCA)
What Success Looks Like
Accurate, reliable, and forward-looking forecasts and financial plans
High-frequency, transparent operational performance tracking enabling fast decision-making
Strong collaboration with business stakeholders, enabling better performance steering
Readiness to take on leadership responsibility as the team expands
Continuous improvement of FP&A processes, tools, and data quality
Why Quantum-Systems:
We believe in the power of combined efforts: straightforward tech expertise paired with a customer-centric focus.
We are industry pioneers who are ambitious, bold, and visionary.
We push limits, think outside-the-box and strive for technological excellence to shape the future of aerial data.
We promise to be your runway for individual and professional growth.
Our benefits:
Company pension scheme: We support you so that you can already make provisions for later.
Flexible working hours: With trust-based working hours, you are not only responsible for your working hours, but also for your work-life balance.
Mobile Work: If things get a little busy in the office, you have the option to work remotely one flexible day per week to create the right balance.
Stay active: With EGYM Wellpass, you get access to thousands of fitness and sports facilities — and of course, we subsidize the membership.
Bike-Leasing: We support you in staying environmentally mobile and healthy.
Corporate Benefits: Your opportunity for attractive offers and discounts from well-known suppliers and brands, e.g. Adidas, Apple, Expedia.
Employee events: We not only want to grow together, but also celebrate our successes together.
Lunch-Card: Be powerful with delicious energy, daily lunch budget is sponsored.
Company Shuttle: Enjoy our convenient shuttle service that picks you up from Laim in Munich and brings you to our location, with return trips at the end of the workday.
About us:
Quantum Systems is a leading European deep-tech company for unmanned systems across air, land and maritime domains. We develop and scale integrated hardware, software and AI-powered solutions for mission-critical operations.
At Quantum Systems, you’ll work alongside experts across disciplines, take ownership from day one and help turn ambitious ideas into technology with real-world impact. We move fast, think beyond boundaries and give our teams the space to shape what comes next.
The Future is Unmanned - But the responsibility is not.
Our commitment:
We are an open-minded company that not only values diversity, but actively promotes it. Regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation or disability, we firmly believe that the diversity of our employees is an essential part of our success.
At our company, every voice is heard and every perspective is valued. We believe that our differences enrich us and help us to find creative solutions and generate innovative ideas. We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment where all employees can reach their full potential.
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