Senior Group Marketing Controller (All Genders)

The role

The Group Marketing Controller is the primary finance interface for HelloFresh's global marketing function. The role exists to ensure marketing spend is planned accurately, closed correctly, and reported transparently — bridging the gap between marketing execution and the Group P&L.

Above all, we are looking for people who will make HelloFresh better. We believe there are many different ways of developing skills and we love diverse experiences! So even if you don’t “tick all the boxes” but think you’d thrive in this role, we would really like to learn more about you.

What you’ll do

1. Close & Accruals

Own the month-end close process for marketing cost lines across all markets

Review and validate marketing accruals submitted by local finance teams

Identify and resolve booking errors, misclassifications, or missing accruals

Maintain clean actuals in the income statement for all marketing line items

Work with SE Finance Controlling to improve and create transparency to the markets on marketing IC charges

2. Budget & Forecast Management

Consolidate and challenge market-level marketing budgets during planning cycles

Lead marketing Guidance creation for Business Plan cycles

Maintain the Group marketing budget with actuals vs. budget vs. forecast

Flag material variances early and escalate to marketing stakeholders

3. Reporting & Analysis

Work with Tech and local markets to improve and automate input quality of weekly reporting

Produce monthly marketing performance reports covering spend vs. budget, phasing, and key variance drivers (Leverage A.I. and Databricks Dashboards)

Support the CFO/board reporting pack with accurate marketing cost commentary

Build and maintain performance reports for Global Marketing teams

4. Business Partnering

Act as the day-to-day finance contact for the Global Marketing teams

Manage Direct and Indirect spend for the Marketing team

5. Process & Controls

Document and improve the end-to-end marketing close process