P&L Controller SaaS (reference number: 3464)

Our client is a Private Equity-backed SaaS organization, headquartered in Amsterdam, operating in a highly international and complex environment with more than 30 operating companies across multiple countries. The group is focused on scalable growth, operational excellence, and value creation, supported by a mature and performance-driven finance function.

The P&L Controller plays a critical role in driving financial performance, transparency, and cost discipline across a large, multi-entity SaaS organization. Acting as a strong finance business partner to senior stakeholders, this role ensures robust P&L control, effective OPEX management, and high-quality planning, forecasting, and reporting in a dynamic, PE-owned environment

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnering:

• Act as a trusted finance business partner to internal and external stakeholders, including segment leads, cost pool owners, FP&A teams, and senior management.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across more than 30 legal entities and multiple geographies.
• Translate financial performance into clear, actionable insights to support operational and strategic decision-making.

P&L Control & OPEX Management:

• End-to-end responsibility for P&L control and management activities across multiple operating companies.
• Lead OPEX management across headcount, contingent workforce, vendors, discretionary spend, and investments.
• Proactively challenge cost trends and assumptions in line with Private Equity value-creation objectives.
• Ensure transparency, consistency, and comparability of financial performance across the group.

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting:

• Own the build, landing, and execution of annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
• Drive month-end financial management, including close, analysis, and performance reviews.
• Identify risks and opportunities versus plan and support timely corrective actions.

Reporting & Performance Management:

• Deliver periodic results reporting with clear variance analysis, commercial insights, and forward-looking commentary.
• Track and report on compliance and financial performance KPI's across the organization.
• Support management and PE stakeholders with reliable management information and insight into performance versus investment case.

Required Background & Experience

Professional Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in controlling, business control, or P&L management, preferably within a SaaS, technology, or subscription-based environment.
• Proven experience within Private Equity-backed organizations, including exposure to value-creation agendas, cost discipline, and performance transparency.
• Demonstrated experience operating in complex, international, multi-entity environments (30+ legal entities).
• Strong hands-on experience with OPEX-driven business models and workforce-intensive cost structures.
• Strong in story telling

SaaS & Commercial Acumen:

• Strong understanding of SaaS business models and key metrics, including ARR, MRR, churn, retention (gross and net), LTV, CAC, gross margin, and unit economics.
• Ability to translate SaaS performance drivers into actionable P&L insights and forward-looking forecasts.
• Experience partnering closely with commercial, operational, and product stakeholders

Financial Planning, Reporting & PE Exposure:

• Extensive experience in budgeting, forecasting, and month-end close management at group and business-unit level.
• Familiarity with PE reporting requirements, including management packs, variance analysis, and performance tracking versus investment case.
• Experience working with Internal and External Audit and within strong governance frameworks.
• Exposure to treasury-related topics such as cash and liquidity management is a strong plus.

Systems, Tools & Data:

• Strong experience with ERP and consolidation systems
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with AI/BI and reporting tools such as Power BI, claude
• Comfortable working in data-driven, increasingly automated finance environments

Education & Personal Attributes:

• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Professional qualifications (e.g. CPA, RA, ACCA, CMA) are a plus.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across senior audiences.
• Hands-on, structured, resilient, and commercially minded, communicative, eye for details.