Corporate Finance Controlling Manager
Posted
We are looking for a highly analytical and driven finance professional to help build and scale the financial operating model behind one of Europe’s most ambitious infrastructure companies.
The role combines elements of Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance and Financial Planning Analysis. You will work on everything from fundraising and debt financing to budgeting, forecasting, board materials, financial modelling, and business planning.
This is a hands-on role requiring both strategic thinking and operational execution. One day you may be supporting a major financing process with banks or investors; the next you may be updating financial forecasts, analyzing infrastructure investments, or building executive-level presentations for the Board.
Success in this role requires intellectual curiosity, strong financial modelling skills, excellent stakeholder management, and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change quickly.
Key Responsibilities
Corporate Finance
- Support equity fundraising processes and financing initiatives
- Assist with debt financing discussions involving banks, lenders, funds and public financing institutions
- Support grant applications and alternative financing opportunities
- Coordinate due diligence processes and investor requests
- Prepare and maintain data rooms
- Develop financial materials used with investors, lenders and external stakeholders
Financial Planning Analysis
- Own and maintain budgeting and forecasting models
- Support long-range business planning
- Develop financial scenarios and sensitivity analyses
- Track business performance against plan
- Support cost management and financial governance across the company
Strategic Finance Business Operations
- Prepare Board and management presentations
- Build financial models supporting strategic decisions
- Coordinate inputs from multiple stakeholders across the business
- Support product, commercial and infrastructure investment decisions
- Drive process improvements across finance and planning functions
Expected Outcomes
- Establish strong relationships across the organization
- Take ownership of core budgeting and forecasting processes
- Contribute significantly to upcoming fundraising and financing activities
- Improve quality, predictability, and transparency of financial reporting
- Support creation of robust business plans and investment cases
- Strengthen financial processes and governance as the company scales
Skills Requirements
Must-Have Skills Qualifications
- Strong financial modelling capabilities, including advanced Excel skills
- Experience in Corporate Finance, Strategic Finance, FP A, Investment Banking, Management Consulting, or similar analytical roles
- Experience building budgets, forecasts and business plans
- Strong PowerPoint / Keynote presentation skills
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work effectively across both technical and non-technical teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
- High attention to detail combined with strategic thinking
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with demanding deadlines
- Experience with fundraising, debt financing, grants, or capital markets
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience supporting due diligence processes
- Experience from infrastructure, energy, telecom, cloud, industrial, manufacturing or other capital-intensive sectors
- Experience from high growth scaleups
- Background in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Corporate Finance advisory, or top-tier Management Consulting
- Experience working with international stakeholders and financing structures
Personal Attributes
- High energy and strong drive
- Curious and intellectually ambitious
- Proactive and self-starting
- Comfortable challenging assumptions and driving accountability
- Able to navigate ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities
- Strong ownership mentality