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

As a Senior FP&A Controller, you will play a key role in driving the company’s financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis processes. This is a highly operational and hands-on role with a clear focus on FP&A excellence, ensuring high-quality financial transparency and actionable insights for decision-making.

You will work closely with the Head of Controlling and business stakeholders across the organisation to translate operational performance into financial outcomes. Your work will directly influence short- and mid-term steering of the business by delivering reliable forecasts, deep-dive analyses, and clear financial narratives.

The role offers future leadership potential, including the opportunity to take on responsibility for a junior team member as the function grows.

What is your Day to Day Mission:

Financial Planning & Forecasting

• Support and drive the annual budgeting process across departments

• Maintain and continuously improve the rolling forecast, ensuring accuracy and timely updates

• Prepare mid-term financial plans and support long-range planning processes

• Develop and run scenario analyses (e.g. sensitivities, what-if analyses) to support business decisions

Operational Performance Reporting & Insights

• Establish and drive operational reporting cadences, including weekly KPI check-ins with key stakeholders

• Monitor financial and operational KPIs, ensuring full transparency on performance, risks, and opportunities

• Perform ongoing variance and trend analyses based on latest operational data and forecasts

• Translate data into clear, actionable insights to support timely decision-making

• Support the preparation of ad-hoc analyses and management updates outside of formal MEC reporting cycles

Business Partnering

• Act as a financial partner to selected departments, supporting them in planning and performance tracking

• Challenge assumptions and provide financial guidance to improve decision-making

• Build financial models and business cases (e.g. cost initiatives, investments, headcount planning)

Data, Tools & Processes

• Work with and further develop planning and forecasting tools (e.g. Anaplan)

• Ensure data consistency between FP&A tools, BI systems, and ERP

• Contribute to the automation and standardisation of FP&A processes

• Improve data quality and reporting efficiency on an ongoing basis

What you bring to the team:

• Have 4–7 years of experience in FP&A / Controlling, with a strong operational focus

• Have hands-on experience in budgeting, forecasting, and financial modelling

• Are confident working with modern planning tools (Anaplan is a strong plus)

• Have strong analytical skills and attention to detail, combined with a business mindset

• Are able to translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations

• Are comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

• Communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders

• Are fluent in English (German is a plus)

Nice to Have

• Initial leadership or mentoring experience, or strong motivation to take on leadership responsibility

• Experience in a scaling or transformation environment

• Exposure to BI tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau)

• Basic knowledge of data analysis tools (e.g. SQL, Python)

• Professional qualification (e.g. CIMA, ACCA)

What Success Looks Like

• Accurate, reliable, and forward-looking forecasts and financial plans

• High-frequency, transparent operational performance tracking enabling fast decision-making

• Strong collaboration with business stakeholders, enabling better performance steering

• Readiness to take on leadership responsibility as the team expands

• Continuous improvement of FP&A processes, tools, and data quality

Why Quantum-Systems:

• A key role in a high-growth tech company shaping the future of autonomous systems.

• Exposure to C-level leadership, board reporting, and strategic finance decision-making.

• Opportunity to design and implement scalable FP&A infrastructure for a global enterprise.

• Competitive compensation, personal development opportunities, and hybrid working flexibility.

• We believe in the power of combined efforts: straightforward tech expertise paired with a customer-centric focus.

• We are industry pioneers who are ambitious, bold, and visionary.

• We push limits, think outside-the-box and strive for technological excellence to shape the future of aerial data.

• We promise to be your runway for individual and professional growth.

Our benefits:

• Company pension scheme: We support you so that you can already make provisions for later.

• Flexible working hours: With trust-based working hours, you are not only responsible for your working hours, but also for your work-life balance.

• Mobile working: If it gets too turbulent for you in our office, you can get the necessary balance through mobile working.

• Bike-Leasing: We support you in staying environmentally mobile and healthy.

• Corporate Benefits: Your opportunity for attractive offers and discounts from well-known suppliers and brands, e.g. Adidas, Apple, Expedia.

• Employee events: We not only want to grow together, but also celebrate our successes together.

• Lunch-Card: Be powerful with delicious energy, daily lunch budget is sponsored.

• Company Shuttle: Enjoy our convenient shuttle service that picks you up from Laim in Munich and brings you to our location, with return trips at the end of the workday.

About us:

Quantum Systems specialises in the development, design, and production of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS). The company’s range of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) sUAS are built to maximize range and versatility and to provide operators with a seamless user experience. By integrating cutting-edge software capabilities, like edge com