Description

Most businesses reach a point where costs have grown quietly in the background and nobody has ever built a clean, reliable place to see the full picture — let alone model what happens next.

I build that structure.

I'm a financial planning and analysis specialist with 10 years inside SaaS startups and scaleups. I've worked across budgeting, rolling forecasts, headcount planning, cost diagnostics, and P&L management — at companies where getting the numbers wrong had real consequences.

I build bespoke budgeting and forecasting models for businesses that don't yet have a finance hire. Built around your actual cost structure, your revenue model, your hiring plan. When I hand it over, I walk you through it so you can run it yourself from day one. No dependency, no black box.

A typical engagement covers: revenue modelling, headcount and cost planning, scenario planning, cash flow, and a dashboard with the numbers that actually drive decisions. The output is an Excel or Google Sheets model you own outright.

If your finances are currently held together with assumptions nobody has tested — or you know you need proper budgeting, forecasting, and financial controls but haven't known where to start — that's exactly what I work on. Excel and Google Sheets, built for you, handed over clean.

If that sounds like your situation, let's talk.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Chinese
Native or bilingual
Cantonese
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Berlin (up to 50km)

HRS Group
Senior Controller
TRAVEL AND TOURISM
April 2025 - April 2026 (1 year)
Cologne, Germany
Global business-travel technology

Owned group-level cost controlling across the Product House (4 pillars, 33 cost centres), partnering with 13+ VPs and Directors — steering ~10% cost reductions in 2025 and ~€1.3M savings in the 2026 budget. Cut month-end close from 10+ days to 8, improving reporting speed by 20%. Built the operational and reporting workflow for a major new customer worth ~€0.9M won in 2025.
Financial Modelling Budgeting & Forecasting FP&A Cost Reduction
softgarden e-recruiting GmbH
Senior Controller
TECH
July 2022 - April 2025 (2 years and 9 months)
Berlin, Germany
Leading German e-recruiting SaaS

- 200 FTE
- ~€20M

Led FP&A with full P&L cost ownership for a ~€20M ARR SaaS business, delivering board reporting and financial insight that drove business steering.
Redesigned budgeting and rolling forecasting across 2 BUs and 1 subsidiary, including headcount planning and scenario modelling.

Built and maintained the ARR bridge tracking new business, expansion, contraction, and churn; raised KPI reporting efficiency 15% via SQL/Tableau automation.

Strengthened cost controls across 18 departments (+15% variance-analysis accuracy) and designed IFRS-compliant processes cutting close timelines by 4 days.

Developed a cash-flow forecasting model integrating P&L and headcount assumptions for scenario planning and liquidity visibility.
Budgeting & Forecasting SAAS Financial Modelling
AnyDesk Software GmbH
Team Lead, Controlling & Reporting
SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
January 2021 - June 2022 (1 year and 5 months)
Stuttgart, Germany
Proprietary remote-desktop software

- 150 FTE
◦ · ~€25M revenue

Designed and ran an agile budgeting process with 15+ department heads, embedding financial discipline and faster decision-making.

Owned the finance workstream for the NetSuite ERP implementation — defined chart of accounts and entity setup, completed UAT ahead of go-live.

Scaled the controlling function's processes and analytical capability as the team grew from 1 to 4.
Budgeting & Forecasting FP&A SAAS Financial Modelling