Head of Finance and Controlling (40%)

About the job

Vorhangbox is one of the leading Swiss providers of curtains, pleated blinds and more. Since 2015, we have been offering our customers high-quality products and services at affordable prices – at the customer's home, in the showrooms and in the online shop. With our own curtain manufactory in Hungary, we also design part of our production ourselves.

To further develop our company on a reliable financial basis, we are looking for an experienced personality for finance and controlling. You create transparency, question figures and support management and department heads in their decisions. In doing so, you work closely with our external fiduciary partner and the accounting department of our Hungarian subsidiary. You report directly to management and support the executive board and board of directors with well-founded decision-making bases.

On the company side, you are responsible for the quality, consistency and meaningfulness of financial reporting as a basis for decisions. You check and explain the figures and approve the management reporting. Our fiduciary partner Auditrium prepares the accounting and financial statements and is responsible for the proper accounting processing within the scope of its mandate.

Responsibilities / Main Tasks

• You coordinate the monthly financial reporting and check the figures for completeness, plausibility and consistency.
• You analyse significant plan/actual deviations, explain their causes and derive concrete recommendations for action for management and department heads.
• You further develop controlling and prepare comprehensible evaluations of costs, margins and profitability of our business areas as well as our production in Hungary.
• You accompany budgeting and forecasts together with management and department heads.
• You prepare and maintain the liquidity forecast and make cash flow, working capital and capital commitment transparent.
• You prepare investment calculations and well-founded decision-making bases for investments and assess their impact on profitability and liquidity.
• You coordinate the financial interfaces between the Swiss company, the Hungarian subsidiary and the external accounting and fiduciary partners.
• You accompany monthly and annual financial statements on the company side and ensure that open questions and reconciliations are clarified promptly.
• You improve financial processes and data quality and use existing digital tools such as Power BI for efficient reporting.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Commercial basic training with further education in finance and accounting or controlling, for example a federal diploma, or comparable qualification.
• Several years of practical experience in finance and controlling, ideally in an SME with trade or production.
• Confidence in assessing profit and loss accounts, balance sheets and cash flow as well as experience with budgeting, investment calculations and business evaluations.
• Very good knowledge of Excel or Google Sheets; experience with Power BI and digital financial processes is an advantage.
• Very good German skills; English for collaboration with the accounting office of our subsidiary in Hungary.

Your Personality

• You take responsibility and work independently, precisely and in a structured manner.
• You think entrepreneurially and translate figures into understandable statements and concrete recommendations for action.
• You ask questions when something is not plausible and follow up on open points.
• You work respectfully with different contacts and combine trust with careful examination.
• You set priorities and develop pragmatic solutions that work in the everyday life of an SME.

Employment Benefits

• A responsible part-time role with direct collaboration with management.
• The 40% workload is ideally spread over several weekdays; the specific arrangement will be agreed together.
• Scope for development to further develop controlling and financial processes and to contribute your own ideas.
• A respectful working culture with flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths.
• A good mix of independent work and collaboration with internal and external specialists.
• Insights into a company with consulting, online shop and own production.