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Your responsibilities will span two key areas: financial consolidation, reporting and short-term forecasting for Zalando Payments, and end-to-end controlling of our overhead costs.\nThis role combines strong analytical depth with broad stakeholder exposure. You will work closely with Finance colleagues responsible for individual P&L areas, cost center owners across the organization, Zalando Payments senior management, and senior Finance stakeholders at Zalando Group level.\nWe are looking for someone who does not simply report numbers, but wants to understand, challenge and reconcile them - investigating variances, connecting data across different systems and sources, and establishing robust controls that ensure our financial view is complete, accurate and consistent.\nLearn more about our Finance Business Unit: Zalando Finance Careers\nWHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)\nOwn the consolidation and reporting of Zalando Payments’ financial performance, bringing together inputs across the P&L and ensuring a complete, accurate and consistent financial view of the entity.\n Drive our short-term rolling forecast (Latest View) process end-to-end, coordinating with Finance team members responsible for individual P&L lines, consolidating their latest expectations and translating them into a comprehensive entity-level outlook.\nAnalyze financial performance and variances in depth, identifying the underlying business drivers and providing clear, concise and insightful commentary to Zalando Payments management and Zalando Group Finance stakeholders.\nTake end-to-end ownership of overhead controlling, including month-end closing, accruals, variance analysis, forecasting and budgeting across the relevant cost centers.\nPartner closely with cost center owners, providing transparency on their financial performance, challenging assumptions where appropriate and supporting them in effectively managing their budgets and forecasts.\nInvestigate and reconcile financial data across different systems and sources, proactively identifying inconsistencies, understanding their root causes and ensuring they are resolved.\nDevelop and maintain robust financial controls and reconciliation mechanisms to ensure completeness and accuracy of reporting and to continuously strengthen the reliability of our financial processes.\nContinuously improve our controlling and reporting processes, identifying opportunities for greater transparency, standardization and automation.\nWE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF\nYou bring solid professional experience in Controlling, FP&A or a comparable Finance role, ideally within a complex, fast-paced and data-driven organization.\nYou have a strong analytical and investigative mindset: you enjoy digging into numbers, reconciling different data sources and understanding the root cause behind financial variances rather than simply reporting them.\nYou have a strong understanding of financial controlling processes, including month-end closing, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis and management reporting.\nYou combine attention to detail with the ability to connect individual financial effects to the broader P&L picture and communicate the resulting story clearly.\nYou have a strong sense of financial ownership and control, proactively putting checks and reconciliations in place to ensure numbers are complete, accurate and consistent.\nYou are a confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills, comfortable working with cost center owners as well as presenting and explaining financial developments to senior Finance and business stakeholders.\nYou are comfortable working across multiple systems and large datasets. Experience with SAP and financial reporting or BI tools is highly valued.\nYou are fluent in English and comfortable working in an international environment. Knowledge of German is a plus.\nYou bring curiosity, ownership and a continuous-improvement mindset - and are equally comfortable challenging the numbers and challenging the process behind them.\nIf you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!\n OUR OFFER\nZalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.\n27 days of holiday a year to start for full-time employees (+1 day for every calendar year up to 30 days)\n40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners\nFamily support, including counselling and dedicated services for parents and careers\nCompany pension scheme\nEmployee shares programme\nHealth and wellbeing options, including Wellhub\nMental health support and coaching\nDevelopment through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review\n2 paid volunteering days a year\nRelocation assistance (subject to prior agreement)\nINCLUSIVE BY DESIGN\nIf you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!\nAt Zalando, our vision is to be the leading European technology platform for fashion and lifestyle - one that thrives on diversity and is truly inclusive by design. We believe that diverse teams fuel innovation and creativity, and we actively seek out talent from all backgrounds.\nWe actively seek to reduce bias in our hiring and employment processes, focusing on your qualifications, skills, and contributions. To support this, we kindly ask that you refrain from including personal details such as your photo, age, or marital status in your CV, ensuring a fair and equitable evaluation based solely on your abilities and potential.\nWe are committed to providing an exceptional and accessible candidate experience for everyone. 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