Description
Lovehoney Group is the world’s leading sexual wellbeing company, with the mission to elevate pleasure through innovative technologies, a data-driven approach, and fostering creative, fresh perspectives on intimacy. We offer exciting brands with innovative, high-quality sex toys, lingerie, and accessories in a streamlined online shopping experience. At Lovehoney, we employ over 800 passionate and progressive individuals across 11 global offices, each person contributing a unique blend of talents to our diverse workforce. We are proud to be a company that thrives by doing things differently, challenging expectations and stereotypes while making a positive impact on our customers’ lives. Join us at Lovehoney, where pleasure combines with creativity, data, and innovation! We are currently looking for a Head of Controlling who will be integral to driving high-level performance across Lovehoney Group. In this role you will oversee the financial management of all departments related to product brands. Your mission is to elevate performance transparency across Brand & Marketing, Product, Production/Factory, and Sourcing, while driving modern, data-driven controlling practices. Additionally, you will serve as the Financial Business Partner for the leadership of the B2B and Marketplaces sales channels. You will play a pivotal role in shaping financial strategy, strengthening data quality, and enhancing decision-making across the organization. This is a high-impact leadership position with visibility across the full value chain. What you will do Lead and further develop a high-performing Controlling team of up to five in Germany and China, ensuring a strong link between team objectives and corporate strategy. Own and develop the controlling of the financial performance of the product brands, which includes product margin transparency, pricing analytics, product profitability steering, and financial performance reviews of Marketing activities. Act as a strategic business partner to senior leadership, providing actionable insights that support profitable growth and operational excellence. Ensure robust product costing, standard cost updates, and cost transparency across the value chain. Partner with Production, Factory Management, and Sourcing to track product cost developments and identify cost-saving opportunities. Support the FP&A Director and their team in the preparation of budgets and forecasts by providing reliable actuals and variance analyses. The FP&A team works in a scalable and consistent way across the group in regards to reporting and forecasting utilising an integrated Planning & Reporting Platform (Pigment). Collaborate closely with the leadership teams of the B2B and Marketplace sales channels , which includes regular financial analyses and support in financial planning and decision-making. Ensure and improve the weekly & monthly business review processes and support the FP&A team to deliver consistent insights to leadership teams. Develop user-friendly dashboards, enable self-service business intelligence for operational teams, and support the standardization of financial data models to ensure high-quality, automated reporting. Drive digital transformation in Controlling through automation and AI-supported analytics, and support liquidity planning and contribute to risk management activities in collaboration with Finance leadership. What you should bring Several years of experience in Controlling, ideally in an international or multi-brand environment. Proven leadership experience, with the ability to build and develop high-performing teams. Strong expertise in product cost accounting, margin analysis, and performance steering. Experience with modern ERP and BI systems (e.g. NetSuite, BigQuery, Superset, Power BI, Pigment). Advanced analytical skills and experience working with complex datasets. Experience with digital FP&A processes and automated reporting, ideally including AI-driven analytics tools. Strong communicatio