Manager FP&A & Investor Relations (f/m/d)

What if… your work empowered change in an industry that essentially impacts the prosperity of the entire world? Forto is in business to exactly do that – disrupt logistics! Simplifying global trade has been our mission from day one. Our exponentially growing team of technology and logistics experts forge ahead each day with the goal to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless and sustainable digital supply chain while chasing towards our moonshot goal of achieving climate neutral operations by 2025.

We are hard working and have a genuine interest to get things done because we love what we do. We are empaths thinking about others first and deeply committed to our team. We value an organized and autonomous working style, but also a positive and creative mindset.

Your role

Reporting to the Head of FP&A and Investor Relations, the Manager FP&A and Investor relations will partner with all departments of Forto to influence decisions in support of profitable growth. In this highly visible role key activities include rigorous business partnering, financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting, management financial reporting and establishment of financial KPIs / standard dashboards to track performance. Our ideal candidate for this role will need knowledge in Corporate Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis with a strong technical and analytical background, self-starter mentality, strong interpersonal, communication and problem solving skills.

You will

Support in improving and maintaining Forto’s global Business plan across multiple products in the logistics space, as well as support in quarterly commercial reforecasting
Analyze the trends of major business KPIs of Forto – especially relating to commercial metrics such as volume generation across products and tradelanes, total revenues/gross profit, unit economics, etc
Co-lead in preparing monthly reporting packages for Forto’s investors
Support during preparation for the Quarterly board meeting and any ad-hoc investor oriented analysis
Develop and lead ad-hoc analysis on various to support new strategic initiatives
Support management team and the Heads of Department with data-driven analysis
Support in providing Forto executive team a monthly overview of the business performance
Serve as a sparring partner for Senior Finance leadership team
Support the reporting and budgeting processes for local departments and overseas entities
Support Forto through a migration of FP&A planning activities to an external FP&A software

What you bring

3-5 years experience in Corporate Finance, FP&A or similar position with emphasis on forecasting, financial analysis, and financial modeling
Demonstrated track record of high-performance (e.g. top rank, promotion)
Willingness to enter a fast paced and dynamic environment, ideally worked for a successful Start-up or a similar working environment such as investment banking/consultancy and ideally have already been part of a global hyper-growth story.
Deep financial modeling skills that allow you to create insightful financial analyses and provide recommendations for decision making.
Thereby, you are embracing teamwork and intensive hands-on mentality in your daily routine
Skill Set: Your affinity for numbers, accuracy and reliability characterize your personality. Strong analytical and quantitative skills and a track record for planning, delivering and auditing work. Excel and PPT (Gsheets and Gslides) affinity are a must, SQL skills and data analytics are important but not a must.