Senior Sales Controller

About the role

Ahead is seeking a hands-on commercial finance professional to build and lead the commercial controlling function as the company scales. The role involves turning financial data into actionable insights to drive decision-making across sales channels, products, and promotions. You will own sales KPI reporting, manage budgets and forecasts, and represent commercial planning in the S&OP cycle.

Responsibilities

• Own reporting on revenue, volume, margin, sell-in/sell-out, distribution, and forecast accuracy.
• Build baseline forecasts, track plan versus actual, and recommend corrective actions.
• Analyse profitability by customer, channel, product, and promotion, and support customer negotiations.
• Track D2C, Retail, Field Sales, and Trade Marketing budgets and flag risks.
• Represent commercial planning in the monthly S&OP cycle and prepare decision-ready scenarios.
• Improve data quality and automate recurring work in Google Sheets and planning tools.

Required skills

• Sales Controlling
• Commercial Controlling
• FP&A
• KPI reporting
• Google Sheets
• BI
• ERP
• CRM
• German
• English

Nice to have

• FMCG
• S&OP
• Odoo
• APS
• AI

Qualifications

• Qualification in Business Administration, Finance, or similar

Benefits

• Monthly allowance
• 28 vacation days
• Company snacks and drinks
• Team offsites

About the Company

Ahead is a company on a mission to clean up the world's candy drawers by making snacks with less sugar and no compromise on taste. They are a team of 140 people experiencing aggressive growth across D2C, retail, Amazon, and new European markets.