FP&A Lead (w/m/d)

The future looks like you

With over 1,300 stores in 17 European countries and more than 25,000 employees, C&A is one of Europe’s leading fashion retailers. Every day, C&A welcomes millions of visitors to its stores in Europe and to its online shop. C&A offers quality and long-lasting fashion at affordable prices for the many. We are building on more than 180 years of experience in the fashion industry and continuously modernize the company to become an omnichannel fashion retailer. C&A is currently undergoing a multi-year transformation to strengthen profitability, modernize operations, and accelerate omnichannel growth. The company is building a more data-driven and digitally enabled operating model across Product, Supply Chain, and Retail Execution.

We are seeking an experienced FP&A professional to lead financial planning and analysis across C&A Europe. This role is ideal for someone who:
Masters FP&A best practices and can translate data into strategic insights.
Leads with confidence , having already managed and developed teams.
Communicates at the highest level , with the ability to present clearly and credibly in Board meetings.

As FP&A Lead, you will be a key partner to the CFO and senior leadership, driving performance, forecasting, and decision support across the business.

This is a hybrid working model role based from Dusseldorf office.

Your responsibilities

1. Planning & Forecasting
• Lead the company’s long-range planning, annual budgeting, and forecasting cycles across business units, functions, and markets.
• Translate strategic priorities (omnichannel growth, margin expansion, working capital efficiency) into measurable financial targets.
• Align top-down stretch ambitions with bottom-up business plans, ensuring clarity of accountability and delivery.
• Consolidate and challenge submissions from Commercial, Supply Chain, and Functions.
• Support the CFO on scenario modelling and long-term value creation roadmap
2. Performance Reporting & Insights
• Drive end-to-end performance management through timely, insightful financial reporting.
• Deliver monthly management packs and Board reporting focused on key retail KPIs.
• Provide insight into key business drivers such as revenue growth, cost to serve, inventory health, working capital and free cash flow
• Proactively identify risks, opportunities, and business levers to drive EBIT and FCF improvement.
• Partner with business finance teams to translate operational metrics into financial impact.
3. Business Partnering & Decision Support
• Drive performance dialogues and cross-functional alignment on improvement actions.
• Ensure disciplined investment appraisal and post-implementation review using NPV, IRR, payback, and sensitivity frameworks.
• Partner with Treasury and Controlling on cash forecasting and capital structure planning.
4. Process & Systems Improvement
• Streamline FP&A processes and templates to improve efficiency and transparency.
• Design and implement modern FP&A tools and dashboards (SAP, Anaplan and other analytics tool) to enhance transparency and speed of insight.
• Build advanced forecasting capability leveraging predictive analytics and scenario planning.
• Continuously enhance data quality, consistency, and automation in planning and reporting.
5. Team Collaboration & Capability
• Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing FP&A team (5-7 FTEs), creating a strong succession pipeline for future finance leaders.
• Foster a “value creation” mindset and business-partnering culture within the finance community.
• Build collaboration across Group, Markets, and Functional FP&A to ensure consistency, efficiency, and shared best practices

What you bring

• 5–10 years of progressive finance experience, with a strong FP&A or business-partnering background.
• Proven ability to manage planning cycles, consolidate complex data, and generate actionable insights.
• Exposure to transformation or ERP/SAP environments desirable.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Confident communicator who can simplify complexity and influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent Excel and data-visualization skills; experience with analytics or planning tools (SAP, Anaplan, etc.).
• Collaborative mindset with a drive for accuracy, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; professional qualification (CIMA/ACCA/CPA) or MBA desirable.
• Experience in retail fashion, retail, FMCG, or consumer goods preferred.

What we offer

This is an opportunity for you to join us on a truly exciting transformation journey, where you’ll be able to leave footprints that last and contribute significantly to our vision. As well as knowing that you played a key part in the evolution of one of Europe’s most recognizable retail brands, you will also enjoy:

• Countless learning and development opportunities via our C&A academy
• Access to a Partner Discount Scheme
• An employee discount of 20% in C&A stores
• 30 days' vacation
• Corporate pension scheme
• Mental health and wellness program
• An exciting job in an international and inspirational working environment
• A positive working atmosphere and a talented team with an open feedback culture