The Job
As our Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, you will play a key role in shaping and continuously strengthening Milence's financial planning and performance management capabilities.
You will help create the financial insights, planning frameworks, and governance that enable informed, forward-looking decision-making across the organisation. Combining strategic thinking with practical execution, you will support the development of FP&A processes, team capability, and ways of working, ensuring financial planning and performance management remain effective, scalable, and closely aligned with business priorities.
Reporting to the Finance Lead, you will collaborate closely with colleagues across the business to strengthen financial steering, improve systems and processes, and translate complex financial information into meaningful insights. You will also contribute to future fundraising activities by maintaining a robust business plan, developing financial scenarios, and preparing reliable analyses for investors, lenders, and other external stakeholders.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys bringing people together, building capabilities, creating clarity in evolving environments, and helping organisations make better decisions through insight, partnership, and continuous improvement.
What You Will Do
- Lead the continued development of the FP&A function, supporting team growth, capability building, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
- Facilitate and continuously enhance budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning processes, ensuring alignment between financial objectives and business priorities.
- Develop, maintain, and improve financial and business models that support scenario planning, investment decisions, business cases, and strategic discussions.
- Maintain and evolve Milence's financial business plan and forecasts, ensuring assumptions, targets, and performance metrics remain aligned with business realities and future growth ambitions.
- Strengthen financial steering through the development of KPIs, reporting frameworks, and performance insights that provide visibility into opportunities, risks, and business performance.
- Enhance FP&A systems, governance frameworks, reporting structures, and data models to support efficient, scalable, and reliable financial processes.
- Explore opportunities to leverage automation, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled solutions to improve forecasting, reporting, scenario modelling, process efficiency, and decision-making across the Finance function.
- Contribute to financial risk assessments, investment prioritisation, resource allocation discussions, and capital planning activities through thoughtful analysis and recommendations.
- Partner closely with leaders across the organisation, helping translate financial insights into clear actions, informed decisions, and sustainable business outcomes.
- Support fundraising, investor engagement, lender discussions, and financial due diligence activities through the preparation of robust financial plans, forecasts, and business scenarios.
Who Are We Looking For?
- You hold a bachelor's or master's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
- You bring 8–10 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, business planning, or a related finance discipline.
- You have experience supporting planning and forecasting processes and developing teams, talent, and finance capabilities.
- You have experience leading teams and developing finance talent, with a passion for coaching, capability building, and creating a collaborative and inclusive team environment.
- You have strong expertise in financial modelling, forecasting, business planning, and performance management.
- You understand accounting principles, financial reporting, financial systems, and performance management frameworks.
- You enjoy helping organisations make informed decisions by translating financial information into practical business insights.
- You have experience working in complex, growing, or scale-up environments and are comfortable building structure while remaining hands-on and adaptable.
- You understand how systems, automation, data, and technology can strengthen finance processes and improve decision-making.
- You are excited about the potential of AI-enabled tools and advanced analytics to enhance forecasting, reporting, operational efficiency, and business insights.
- You build trusted relationships across teams and functions and enjoy collaborating with senior stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
- You communicate clearly and effectively, making complex financial topics accessible to a range of audiences.
- Exposure to fundraising activities, investor engagement, lender discussions, or capital raising processes would be considered an advantage.
- You are collaborative, approachable, naturally curious, and motivated by learning, improving, and helping others succeed.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to join us at a unique scaling phase of a company with a real purpose, high aspirations, and strong team spirit.
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements, 2-3 days per week working from Amsterdam and/or Arnhem offices
- A good salary and a company performance based annual incentive.
- Mobility allowance or company lease EV
- Unlimited holidays
- Company Pension plan
- A one-time budget to set up your home office.
- A monthly phone allowance.
- 12-month fixed term employee contract
Ready to Charge the Future?
At Milence, we value diversity and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and nationalities. Compliance with local employment laws and non-discrimination policies is a priority for us.
Come charge the future and apply now! Please submit your CV in English.
