Lead FP&A and Controlling (f/m/x)

EXPLORE YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE WITH US!

Welcome to Tourlane! We're a tech company on a mission to provide the best experience in travel.

We provide fully personalized, multi-stop trips to 50 destinations around the world and counting. With over 150,000 travellers in the DACH region and France, we're on our way to becoming Europe's leading travel company.

We know that vacation time is precious. Our goal is to help customers discover the world and create lasting memories. We focus on creating tailor-made experiences for our customers because we believe life is too short for standard travel.

Be the operational backbone of Finance at Tourlane — and grow into a leader as we scale.

We're looking for a Lead FP&A & Controlling Analyst to join our team and embark on this journey with us. Reporting to the Director of Finance, you'll be the most senior individual contributor on the FP&A & Controlling team — running our financial planning operations end to end and acting as the operational right hand of the Director of Finance as we scale across markets and entities.

This is a hands-on IC role with a clear leadership trajectory. You'll be in the models, the numbers, and the monthly close — owning the craft today, and over the mid-to-long term, growing into a leadership position as the function expands. If you want a role where you build deep expertise, prove your impact through delivery, and earn your way into leading a team, this is it.

What you'll do

• Be the senior hands-on expert: Live in the models, the data, and the monthly close. Build, fix, and run Tourlane's financial engine yourself — no task is "below" this role.

• Own the planning architecture: Design and evolve our core financial models (P&L, Cash Flow, Workforce, Sales, Marketing, Operations) using cohort-based revenue and margin modeling — and scale the model ecosystem as we grow.

• Run the performance cadence: Drive the weekly rhythm of dashboards, variance analysis, and commentary, and shape the story the Director of Finance brings to leadership.

• Lead end-to-end planning: Own the annual budget, quarterly reforecast, and monthly target-setting — blending top-down ambition with bottom-up input from Departments and Country Leads.

• Build the cash planning engine: Deliver the cash forecasts, liquidity views, and models that inform capital decisions.

• Partner with the business: Bring rigor and constructive challenge to Department and Country Lead plans, target-setting, and business cases.

• Run scenario analysis: Pressure-test plans and support business cases that inform decisions on growth, market expansion, and cost.

• Modernize the function: Lead the FP&A platform rollout and drive automation, workflow improvements, and tooling upgrades.

• Oversee procurement & policy: Govern corporate procurement and renewals at group level, and ensure financial policies and controls are in place and followed.

Your growth path

This role is designed for someone who wants to earn their way into leadership. As the function scales, there's a clear opportunity to grow into managing the FP&A & Controlling team in the mid-to-long term — including hiring, developing, and leading finance talent. You'll have the chance to mentor junior team members along the way and gradually take on more leadership scope as you and the function grow together.

What you'll bring

• A degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field — a Master's or MBA is a plus.

• 7–10 years in FP&A, Controlling, Strategic Finance, or Investment Banking — ideally with time spent in a fast-growing scale-up or internet business.

• A builder's mindset — you build models yourself, get into the data, and own your work from start to finish.

• Experience designing financial planning frameworks for a multi-entity, multi-market business — you've built models at scale, not just maintained them.

• A track record of running the full financial performance cadence (weekly, monthly, quarterly) with senior leadership.

• Strong business sense and the confidence to challenge VPs and budget owners on their numbers, plans, and assumptions.

• Comfort producing the analysis and commentary that shape CEO, CFO, and Board-level conversations.

• Leadership ambition — you may not have managed a team yet, but you've mentored others, set high standards, and are ready to grow into a people leadership role.

• Advanced Google Sheets / Excel skills; experience with FP&A platforms (Pigment, Drivetrain, Aleph, etc.) is a plus.

• Fluent in English; German or French is a plus, given our markets.

Skills we're looking for

• Architecture Mindset: You design models and processes built to scale across markets, entities, and time.

• Strategic Sparring & Stakeholder Management: You challenge senior stakeholders constructively, balance ambition with realism, and earn trust at leadership level.

• Builder Mindset & Modernization: You drive automation, tooling, and continuous improvement — including our upcoming FP&A platform rollout.

• Ownership & Execution: You own the planning calendar and performance cadence end to end, and deliver reliably on what you commit to.

• Emerging Leadership: You set the bar high, mentor others, and have the potential to build and lead a team over time.

What we offer:

• Flexible working setup to get the most of your working hours: we offer full flexibility in our Hybrid/Remote model, however we do expect that you take advantage of our lively Berlin office 2 days per week.

• Annual €600 self-development budget.

• We share your passion for traveling: enjoy working abroad through our program (5 months per year, inside and outside of EU!

• We support all the diverse communities that make us Tourlane: join or create your own Employee Resource Group (ERG) and connect with Tourlaneans.

• Dog-friendly office: we can't wait to meet your furry friend!

Sounds interesting? We are excited to get to know you!