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Senior FP&A Manager (m/f/d)

Munich & Berlin
Finance
Hybrid
FullTime
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YOUR JOB

Ready to turn business performance into clear financial direction? Excited to own forecasting, planning, and investor-grade reporting in a fast-growing B2B SaaS scale-up? Want to work at the intersection of strategy, data, and hands-on execution while driving real impact in our next growth phase? Then join our Finance Team!

LET'S PROTECT THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE DATA

We are a fast-growing security and compliance tech company with a clear purpose: we protect the people behind the data. With over 200 team members worldwide and with offices in Munich, Berlin, London, Vienna and Stockholm we help more than 4,000 global customers get certified fast and build a strong and scalable risk posture. With AI-powered automation, self-serve capabilities and additional tailored expert advice, we offer our customers a seamless security and compliance experience to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving security landscape and challenges like the surge in cyber-attacks.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

  • Reporting to the CFO, you will lead forecasting, performance tracking, and shareholder reporting, creating clear visibility into business performance

  • You own budgeting, strategic planning, and variance analysis across all functions, driving capital-efficient decision-making

  • You deliver investor-grade board reporting, models, dashboards, and actionable financial insights

  • You track and optimize core SaaS metrics in close collaboration with GTM, BI, and leadership teams

  • You build driver-based models for scenario planning, hiring pace, pricing, and investment evaluation

  • You act as Finance’s interface to BI, Tableau, and Salesforce, ensuring accurate data flows into planning and reporting

  • You partner closely with the Financial Operations to align forecast accuracy with actuals, treasury planning, and financial discipline

  • You support future funding or M&A processes through strong financial storytelling, data confidence, and robust analytical preparation

  • You mentor and develop junior FP&A talent, helping scale planning excellence and financial rigor across the organization

WHAT YOU'LL GET IN RETURN

  • The freedom, trust, and tools to do what you love and make an impact in a purpose-driven company, committed to doing genuine good in the digital world.

  • Enjoy a high degree of flexibility with tailored working hours, choice of work location, and benefits that support your lifestyle, health, and family needs.

  • Join a secure, future-focused role in a dynamic scale-up positioned to make a major impact in the rapidly expanding Security & Compliance market.

  • Grow along expert or leadership paths with support from employee accelerator programs, bi-annual feedback cycles, and a personal training budget.

  • Work in an environment that values autonomy, rapid decision-making, a flat hierarchy, and collaborative, eye-level communication to keep things moving forward.

THE QUALITIES YOU'LL NEED FOR A SUCCESSFUL CAREER AT DATAGUARD

  • 5+ years of experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, or SaaS financial modeling; investor reporting experience is a strong plus

  • Strong mastery of SaaS metrics and planning logic (ARR, churn, CAC, margins)

  • Advanced financial modeling skills (Excel/Sheets); experience with BI tools such as Tableau preferred

  • Experience working with Salesforce and commercial data to analyze GTM performance

  • Solid understanding of accounting systems and ability to link forecasts with actuals and cash flow

  • Hands-on, execution-driven mindset, comfortable working with imperfect data and improving structures

  • Clear, confident communicator with strong cross-functional collaboration skills

  • Fluent in English; German is a plus

LAST BUT NOT LEAST. FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS:

No matter your origin, ethnicity, gender identity, religion or individual requirements; at DataGuard, all that counts is the person you are. As Guards and Guardettes, we are united not only by our dedication, but also by our shared belief in our purpose: Protect the people behind the data. Convince us with your personality and your skills – and together we will make great things happen. We are looking forward to meeting you!

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The hiring process

Our hiring process is a two-way journey. While we learn about your experience, strengths, and ambitions, you’ll also get to know who we are, what drives us, how we work, and the impact we aim to make. From your first interaction, we want you to feel what it means to care deeply, build bridges across ideas and backgrounds, create trust through action, and conquer peaks as a team.

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