Senior Financial Analyst - Business Partnering/Controlling

OUR STORY:

Every year millions of people are either filing their taxes in fear or giving up on their tax refund altogether. We're working on fixing that. Our intuitive app enables anyone, regardless of education or background, to file their taxes with newfound confidence.

Spread across Germany, Spain and the UK, the team at Taxfix Group with its brands Taxfix and Steuerbot, is a compassionate group of solution-finders. We speak our minds openly, and with over 400 professionals, including tax experts, developers, and IT security experts, we're rich in ideas and voices. The group has facilitated more than 3.5 billion euros in tax refunds for its customers since its founding in 2016.



YOUR CHALLENGE

As a Financial Analyst within FP&A, you will act as a finance business partner to senior stakeholders and serve as a strategic sparring partner to management, challenging assumptions and shaping key business decisions. You will drive cost transparency, budget ownership, and decision support, leading planning, forecasting, and performance management with a strong focus on OpEx control, sustainable cost steering, and value creation, while ensuring financial discipline as the business scales.

You will also drive automation and process improvements across planning and reporting, leveraging tools such as Pigment and AI-enabled solutions to increase efficiency, accuracy, and scalability, while taking ownership of efficiency levers that strengthen financial impact.

Working closely with budget owners across functions, you will assess ROI, translate strategy into actionable financial plans, and support management and board reporting with high-quality analysis. The role reports to the Director of FP&A and includes close collaboration with key business functions and regular exposure to the management team.


YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

- Act as finance business partner for selected functions, supporting budget owners in planning, forecasting, and cost management

- Own and continuously enhance OpEx tracking and variance analysis vs. budget and forecast

- Lead monthly cost reviews, identifying risks, savings opportunities, and efficiency levers, and drive concrete actions to deliver sustainable cost improvements

- Support preparation of financial materials for management, board, and financing topics

- Take ownership of selected planning areas, including vendor spend and discretionary costs, ensuring disciplined spend management and ROI focus

- Prepare and analyse monthly financial reports for internal and external stakeholders, focusing on key cost drivers and accountability

- Deliver ad-hoc analysis and deep dives to support strategic and operational decisions

- Challenge assumptions and promote data-driven decision-making across the organisation, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership

- Drive automation within FP&A (e.g. Pigment optimisation, AI-supported analysis, workflow improvements)

- Redesign and streamline financial processes t