Senior Business Controller

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About Shoparize

Shoparize is an Amsterdam-based e-commerce technology company operating in 21 European markets. We sit
between merchants and the shoppers who buy from them, and we create value by making a merchant's
performance better than it would be alone. Our data, our expertise and our optimisation are what produce
that difference: we outperform Google CSS, and widening that gap is the permanent job rather than a finished
achievement.

The model is not tied to one channel. We are extending into other verticals and other revenue methods on the
same underlying capability. What stays constant is that we are paid on performance we can measure, across
more than twenty currencies and tax jurisdictions at once.

We are a little over 40 people across technology, operations, marketing, sales and finance. The business is
growing, has recently restructured into a group, and has passed the thresholds to become a middelgrote
rechtspersoon. It is now building the reporting and control infrastructure all of that demands. That is where
this role comes in.

Our commercial data and our financial data do not yet speak to each other reliably enough. Marketing sees one
revenue number, Finance closes another, and the gap has to be argued out rather than looked up. You are the
person who ends that: you define what our financial metrics mean, you make the dashboards and the statutory
books reconcile, and you turn the result into decisions the leadership team can act on. It is a rare mandate at
this stage, and it will not be available again once the definitions are set.

The role
As Senior Business Controller you are the financial heartbeat of Shoparize's performance management.
Reporting directly to the CFO, you own the monthly close reconciliation, financial reporting, forecasting and
budgeting, and you act as the primary Finance counterpart to our BI Specialist so that the data powering our
dashboards and our decisions is accurate, well defined and aligned with financial reality.

You are part controller, part analyst, part data owner. You define what financial data means at Shoparize, you
direct how it is structured and reported through our BI stack, and you translate it into insight for the CFO, the
revenue teams and the leadership team.

This is not a back-office role. You will be commercially engaged, intellectually curious, and comfortable
challenging both numbers and assumptions, including your own.

Position in the team.
This is a senior specialist role, not a management role. You report to the CFO and you
have no direct reports. You hold functional authority over the BI Specialist for everything Finance needs from
the data: you own the business requirements and the metric definitions, and the BI Specialist executes them
technically. You work alongside the Finance Manager, who owns the transactional ledger, accounts payable
and receivable, and payroll administration.

Your first twelve months
Concretely, and in roughly this order:
• Take ownership of the monthly close, and get the dashboards and the books to agree without anyone
having to argue about it.
• Build the consolidated reporting pack across the group's entities, with intercompany elimination and
multi-currency translation that hold up.
• Carry the finance side of our first statutory audit alongside the CFO and the Finance Manager.
• Rebuild the budget and the rolling forecast on definitions you have set yourself, in a data dictionary the
whole business signs up to.
• Then, into 2027, help design and land the move from Exact Online to NetSuite.

What you will own
Financial close and reconciliation
• Own the monthly financial close end to end: completeness, accuracy and timeliness.
• Reconcile operational and transactional data from our systems against financial actuals, and own the
resolution of every discrepancy.
• Reconcile revenue reported by third-party networks and partners to our own settlement and bank data,
including sample recalculation of commission and testing of accrual cut-off.
• Make sure the numbers in our BI dashboards and the numbers in our financial statements tell the same
story, and investigate immediately when they do not.
• Maintain a clear audit trail between operational data, management reporting and statutory financials
under Dutch GAAP (RJ).
• Work with the Finance Manager on the close calendar, accruals and period-end entries.

Financial reporting and performance analysis
• Own and continuously improve monthly management reporting: P&L, gross margin, cash flow and market-
level performance.
• Support the CFO on board materials, investor updates and executive business reviews.
• Analyse revenue, cost and margin performance across all 21 European markets, and identify the drivers,
trends and outliers behind them.
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, concise business narratives for leadership.
• Deliver ad hoc analysis to support commercial, operational and strategic decisions.

Forecasting, budgeting and planning
• Lead the annual budgeting process and the rolling forecast cycle.
• Build and maintain the financial models behind scenario planning, market expansion and investment
decisions.
• Monitor actuals against budget and forecast; own variance analysis and management commentary.
• Improve the quality, frequency and reliability of forward-looking financial information across the business.
• Support capital allocation with structured business cases and financial modelling.

Data ownership and BI direction
• Act as the Finance-side product owner for all financial and business data: metric logic, KPI definitions,
reporting requirements.
• Direct the BI Specialist on the data structures, dashboard builds and reporting outputs Finance and
leadership need. You own the business requirements; the BI Specialist executes technically.
• Establish and maintain a single source of truth for revenue, margin and cost that holds across Finance,
Marketing, Sales and Operations.
• Identify data quality…