Team Lead Business Controlling (gn) - Financial Planning, Analysis & Reporting

 

Start: Immediately | Level: Team Lead | Location: Hamburg, hybrid | Type: Full-time (40h/week)

Join us as a Team Lead Business Controlling (gn) and shape the future of FP&A by building next-generation planning, reporting, and data capabilities in close partnership with company leadership. This is a high-impact role with real ownership, where you design scalable finance solutions end-to-end.

This is a hybrid role, with a preference for on-site presence in our Hamburg office every two weeks.

 

Your mission

• You own and drive the FP&A function within Business Controlling, ensuring best-in-class financial steering and transparency
• You act as a strategic finance partner to company leadership, providing insights, challenging decisions, and enabling data-driven growth
• You lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning processes, elevating them to a forward-looking, business-critical function
• You design and build next-generation FP&A reporting and planning capabilities, shaping the future of finance within the organization
• You take end-to-end ownership of financial data flows—from source systems to reporting output—ensuring consistency and a single source of truth
• You evolve and scale the financial systems landscape (e.g. ERP, BI, planning tools), driving integration, automation, and data quality
• You steer the monthly closing and reporting processes, proactively identifying risks and opportunities while ensuring efficiency and standardization
• You lead and develop a small FP&A team, fostering a high-performance, ownership-driven, and forward-thinking culture 

 

Your experience & skills

• You bring 6–8+ years of experience in Controlling, FP&A, or a comparable finance role
• You have strong expertise in end-to-end planning and forecasting, combined with a solid foundation in core controlling tasks
• You have hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining financial planning systems and reporting architectures
• You are experienced with modern data environments and ERP systems (e.g. SAP, data warehouses, BI tools) and understand end-to-end data flows
• You think holistically across data, systems, and processes, building scalable and future-proof FP&A solutions
• You have a proven track record of transforming and scaling finance functions, including automation and advanced analytics (e.g. AI use cases)
• You demonstrate strong analytical and conceptual skills, with the ability to translate business needs into impactful financial frameworks
• You communicate clearly and confidently with senior stakeholders in English; German skills are a plus

 

Why choose us?

 

Being part of our team means joining a high-performing company with a diverse and inclusive culture. In our fast-growing team of over 1,200 employees, we combine our passion for sports nutrition, supplements, and healthy foods with cutting-edge technology, production, and logistics processes. All of this serves one goal: providing our customers with top-quality products to support their healthy and active lifestyle.

You can look forward to a strong sense of team spirit, ongoing opportunities for professional growth and responsibility, and an exciting work environment that blends lifestyle and career. With locations in Hamburg, Elmshorn, Kaltenkirchen/Nützen, and Elsdorf, TQG offers diverse career opportunities in areas such as technology, product development, sales, marketing, and logistics. Additionally, you’ll benefit from:

• Flexible working hours and remote work options
• Attractive employee discounts (Corporate Benefits, 50% discount on More & ESN products)
• Subsidy for the E-gym Wellpass
• Workation
• 28 days vacation/year
• Free soft drinks, fresh fruit, a variety of yoghurts and More & ESN products in the office
• Dogs in the office are welcome
• Free parking
• Regular office socials

 

About Us

The Quality Group (TQG) is an innovative provider of sports nutrition products, bringing together the successful brands ESN and More Nutrition since 2021.

ESN has been the German market leader in sports nutrition since 2004, offering products like protein powders, bars, and supplements designed for ambitious fitness goals. Founded in 2017, More Nutrition focuses on healthy, reduced-sugar foods, providing solutions for conscious nutrition and weight management without compromise.

TQG’s vision is to help people become the best version of themselves. With passion and innovation, the company develops high-quality products that promote health, performance, and joy in life. Its agile company culture and exciting career opportunities make TQG a strong partner not only for customers but also for employees.

This is us – The Quality Group – nice to meet you! Now it’s your turn!
We look forward to your application! Regardless of gender, age, background, or identity – what matters to us is who you are and what you bring to the table. Join our team and grow with us!