Senior Financial Controller
Company Overview
Our client is a successful family-run business operating in the real economy sector. The company is entering an important phase of organizational development and is seeking a commercially minded Senior Financial Controller to strengthen its finance function.
Role Overview
This position combines core controlling responsibilities with a forward-looking, insight-driven mandate, supporting commercial decision-making. The role is well-suited to a finance professional with 5-7 years of experience who is comfortable operating close to the business, translating financial data into actionable insight, and supporting management with structured commercial analysis.
Reporting Line
Reports to: CFO / Finance Director
Key interfaces: CEO, Commercial & Sales teams, Operations
Your Role
Financial Controlling, FP&A & Reporting
Your Profile
Experience & Background
Your trusted talent partner for careers in Luxembourg.
Independent. Insight-led. Built for the long-term.
Greenfield has been exclusively mandated for this appointment.
Greenfield Luxembourg is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all sectors of the Community. Due to the nature of our client engagements, we are however unable to support applicants that are outside of our core market areas; and/or do not have an existing eligibility to work in Luxembourg or are not EEA/EU/Schengen country Citizens. We are unable to provide work permits or visa sponsorship opportunities.
Company Overview
Our client is a successful family-run business operating in the real economy sector. The company is entering an important phase of organizational development and is seeking a commercially minded Senior Financial Controller to strengthen its finance function.
Role Overview
This position combines core controlling responsibilities with a forward-looking, insight-driven mandate, supporting commercial decision-making. The role is well-suited to a finance professional with 5-7 years of experience who is comfortable operating close to the business, translating financial data into actionable insight, and supporting management with structured commercial analysis.
Reporting Line
Reports to: CFO / Finance Director
Key interfaces: CEO, Commercial & Sales teams, Operations
Your Role
Financial Controlling, FP&A & Reporting
- Prepare and manage annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and multi-year financial projections
- Develop and maintain monthly management reporting packs, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and KPI dashboards
- Analyse variances against budget and forecast, providing clear explanations and corrective insights
- Ensure accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of financial data across reporting cycles
- Partner with sales and commercial teams to provide financial insight supporting pricing, margin management, and profitability analysis
- Support business cases for new commercial initiatives, supplier agreements, and promotional activity
- Develop sales performance dashboards (by customer, product, brand, channel) to support commercial decision-making
- Analyse contribution margins, cost drivers, and volume effects across trading and distribution activities
- Monitor and analyse inventory levels, stock turnover, obsolescence risk, and working capital efficiency
- Support valuation of inventory in line with accounting standards and internal policy
- Work closely with operations and sales to align stock planning with commercial forecasts
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of controlling processes and internal controls
- Support finance-related system initiatives (including implementation of a new ERP reporting system and data structures) to enhance transparency and usability
- Ensure documentation of key controlling processes and reporting methodologies
Your Profile
Experience & Background
- 5-7 years of professional experience in controlling, FP&A, or financial analysis roles
- Exposure to trading, distribution, wholesale, industrial, or commercially driven environments strongly preferred
- Experience working with inventory-heavy or margin-sensitive business models is an advantage
- Prior involvement in budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting is essential
- Strong financial analysis and modelling capability
- Solid understanding of P&L drivers, working capital, and balance sheet mechanics
- Confident user of ERP systems and Excel; experience with BI or reporting tools is a plus
- Commercially curious with a strong business-partnering mindset
- Structured, analytical, and detail-oriented, while able to prioritise effectively
- Clear communicator, able to translate numbers into insight for non-finance stakeholders
- Hands-on, pragmatic, and comfortable in a growing, evolving finance function
- Fluent German and/or French is required
- Professional working proficiency in English is essential
- Luxembourgish is an advantage but not mandatory
Your trusted talent partner for careers in Luxembourg.
Independent. Insight-led. Built for the long-term.
Greenfield has been exclusively mandated for this appointment.
Greenfield Luxembourg is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all sectors of the Community. Due to the nature of our client engagements, we are however unable to support applicants that are outside of our core market areas; and/or do not have an existing eligibility to work in Luxembourg or are not EEA/EU/Schengen country Citizens. We are unable to provide work permits or visa sponsorship opportunities.
Greenfield is a specialist talent advisory firm supporting leadership teams across Luxembourg’s financial, professional services, and corporate ecosystem, addressing complex hiring challenges through judgement, execution, and long-term partnership.
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