Senior Business Controller

Organization

PF Concept is a leading European supplier of product media, generating over €250M in revenue. PF offers a wide collection of 12,000 products that are printed in-house with every possible company logo. Think of gifts like pens, clothing, water bottles, and bags.

Founded in 1984, PF Concept is headquartered in Leiden, next to Leiden CS. The company has nine sales offices that serve distributors across Europe. Operating in a B2B2B model, PF Concept reaches end customers through a network of 15,000 resellers across Europe. PF Concept is part of worldwide market leader Polyconcept Group and backed by a large Private Equity Group.

Sustainability
At PF Concept, we are dedicated to advancing ESG+P (Environmental, Social, Governance + Product) principles to ensure the long-term sustainability of our industry. Our priorities include tackling key challenges such as climate change, promoting a circular economy, and enhancing the well-being of our workforce as well as those involved across our supply chain. Through our "Rethinking Products 2050" initiative, we aim to reduce the Scope 3 emmissions of our products. 

The job profile

As a Senior Business Controller you play a key role in strengthening the Commercial Finance function and supporting business performance. You own the monthly performance cycle and translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights for senior leadership and commercial teams. In this role you drive improvements in reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes, and contribute to the automation and professionalization of financial tooling and BI-driven reporting.

You also act as a strategic business partner to Sales, Category Management, Pricing and Operations. Through profitability analyses, scenario modelling and financial models you support commercial decision-making and ensure alignment between business initiatives and financial targets. You report to the Commercial Finance Director (Anna Heerenveen), who reports directly to the CFO (Xander Egressy).

Responsibilities include:

  • Owning the monthly performance cycle and Monthly Operational Review (MOR)
  • Delivering clear financial insights, analyses and management commentary
  • Improving and automating reporting in collaboration with BI and Data teams
  • Leading the annual budgeting process and rolling forecasts
  • Driving scenario modelling and outlook updates
  • Acting as finance business partner to Sales, Category Management, Pricing and Operations
  • Performing analyses on profitability, pricing and commercial performance
  • Building financial models and supporting business cases and projects
  • Monitoring KPIs and identifying risks and opportunities
  • Supporting freight pricing and margin protection initiatives

"We lead the sustainable transition of the product media industry, by providing meaningful products and seamless processes, inspiring confidence and pride to the customer with every brand impression"

The ideal candidate

The ideal candidate is a commercially minded finance professional who combines strong analytical capabilities with a proactive and business-oriented mindset. Comfortable in a dynamic and performance-driven environment, this person translates complex financial data into clear insights that support commercial decision-making and business performance.

Structured, detail-oriented and ownership-driven, the candidate proactively identifies risks and opportunities and turns analysis into actionable recommendations. Acting as a trusted business partner to commercial stakeholders, the candidate communicates confidently across different levels of the organization and contributes to continuous improvement of processes and performance.

Key qualifications include:

  • Academic degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or a related field
  • Approximately 5–7 years of relevant work experience
  • Experience with financial analysis (including price/volume/mix), budgeting and strategic planning
  • Proven experience in commercial business partnering and cross-functional collaboration
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Experience with ERP systems, BI tools and data analytics (e.g. Power BI, Tableau or similar)
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills
  • Proactive mindset with strong ownership and commercial awareness
  • Fluent English (written and spoken)

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Referentie: LIG07211