Shareholder reporting (NCSoft): Deliver the monthly management P&L and the quarterly consolidated balance sheet and P&L on time and in the shareholder's templates. Provide preliminary figures within a few days of month-end. Keep a clean bridge between management P&L and statutory figures.
Budget and forecast: Own the annual budget and a rolling forecast. Turn the overhead budget into a working budget-control process, with cost-center owners, monthly actual-vs-budget reviews and follow-up actions.
Business partnering: Be the finance counterpart for Revenue Generation / Ad Monetisation, User Acquisition, User Payments (payouts and rewards) and the G&A cost centers, with profitability as the focus.
Cost control: Build levers and tracking for the largest cost blocks: personnel, SaaS, cloud, consulting, and payment fees (PayPal, FX).
Analysis: Run variance analysis against budget, forecast and weekly flash, build scenario models, and prepare quarterly business reviews.
Data integrity: Establish Metabase/Looker as a reliable source of finance KPIs. Reconcile BI data against invoices and the ledger, own the KPI definitions and remove double counts and manual add-ons.
Liquidity: Work with Treasury on the liquidity forecast (network payout timing, UA spend, user cash-outs).
Interface with accounting: Work with the Accounting Lead on the in-house month-end close, including accruals input, cut-off, and cost center and chart of accounts design in DATEV.
Team: Mentor and review the work of our junior FP&A team member, and grow into the leadership of the controlling function in the mid-term.
Job requirements
6+ years in controlling or FP&A, with at least 2 years in a scale-up or digital B2C business; mobile apps, gaming or ad-tech is strongly preferred.
Proven experience reporting to a corporate or strategic shareholder or a PE owner, including multi-entity consolidation and delivering to external templates under deadline.
End-to-end ownership of a full budget and forecast cycle, including building driver-based models.
Self-sufficient with data: hands-on with a BI tool (Metabase/Looker) and advanced Excel/Google Sheets
Solid accounting foundation (accruals, FX, revenue recognition), with enough IFRS/HGB knowledge to reconcile management and statutory figures.
Fluent English (written and verbal). German is a strong plus, given our work with PwC, DATEV and the local entities.
Nice-to-have
Understanding of Ad monetisation and User Acquisition economics: network revenue and payout terms, eCPM, ROAS/LTV, and marketing spend cycles.
Experience with an Asian corporate parent or group reporting calendar
Hands-on experience with DATEV, Moss or Embat
Experience building a controlling function or KPI governance from scratch
Familiarity with multi-currency (USD/EUR) payment flows and FX effects
First experience mentoring or leading finance team members