Senior Business Controller/Head of Finance

Are you a strategic thinker with a strong analytical mindset, excelling in numbers, financial strategy, and accounting? Do you have the expertise driving impactful decisions and optimizing results? If so, we want to meet you!

YOU GOT IT!
As a Senior Business Controller/ Head of finance at LOAVIES, you will be a key player in shaping the financial future of our company. You will act as a strategic business partner, ensuring financial insights drive decision-making. This role requires someone who thrives in a scale-up environment, embraces flexibility, and is eager to enhance financial performance through commercial acumen and strategic analysis. You will work closely with the founding team and play a key role in our leadership team, which is composed of young, talented individuals with a strong drive and passion for branding and success.

THE ROLE:
You will act as the financial business partner to the founding and leadership teams, you will provide vital commercial and strategic insights while owning all financial planning & analysis processes. You'll work closely with leadership to develop budgets, forecasts, and conduct variance analysis while identifying initiatives that drive profitability, cost efficiency, and revenue growth.

Your role involves developing and monitoring key financial and operational KPIs to support informed business decisions, as well as providing robust financial modeling for investment decisions and strategic projects. You'll be responsible for maintaining financial data integrity and delivering insightful management reports.

Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams across Marketing, Buying, Supply Chain, and Operations, you'll help optimize overall business performance. The position requires adapting financial strategies to align with the dynamic nature of our scale-up environment while ensuring compliance with financial regulations and internal controls. Additionally, you'll manage a talented finance team consisting of one financial controller and one finance administrator.

WE LIVE IN THE FAST LANE

LOAVIES is driven by its purpose; to inspire the young fashion-minded to be awesome, proud, and confident. At LOAVIES we live in the fast lane; we work fast, flexible, and fierce. We make smart decisions, execute quickly, and are always in style. We are setting the trend with weekly new drops and working hard to expand our presence internationally. As a social media-minded online fashion brand, we already have a strong presence in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. With over one million highly active customers, we are ready to take over the world! We are always hungry for more. We all bring our A-game and give it our all At LOAVIES we believe that teamwork makes the dream work. Only together can we achieve the most incredible goals ever! If the ride gets challenging, we’re in it together - ‘cause we always have each other’s back.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND COMPETENCIES

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in a finance or business control role, preferably within a scale-up, e-commerce, or retail environment.
• Strong financial modeling, analysis, and reporting skills.
• Proficiency in financial systems and tools (e.g., ERP, BI tools).
• Fluent in Dutch and English
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.
• Flexible, agile, responsive and proactive
• Approachable to the various stakeholders
• Attention to details and ability to align business needs to the job
• Good project management skills
• Assertive and effective communicator

WHAT TO EXPECT:
This is what you can expect from working at LOAVIES

• A competitive package based on your work experience and education;
• A fully catered healthy lunch, everyday;
• The opportunity to join our bootcamp classes three times a week for free, provided by a personal trainer;
• 25 vacation days for full-time employment;
• An extra day off on your birthday;
• Inspiring work environment at our headquarters in Zwolle, surrounded by talented, energetic colleagues;
• Fun Friday afternoon drinks, company events and parties.