Sr. Financial Controller

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Sr. Financial Controller Location: Barcelona, Spain | Reporting to: VP of Finance | Type: Full-time & Hybrid About Yaga Yaga is a fast-growing person-to-person marketplace for preloved fashion, connecting buyers and sellers across the Baltics, South Africa; and now expanding into Egypt. Founded in Estonia in 2017, Yaga has grown into a market-leading resale platform with over 2 million users, close to 8 million items sold, and over 12 million monthly visits. Our mission is to make person-to-person secondhand trading as easy and safe as possible — and to make preloved the number one choice for fashion. Your Mission You’ll be the financial backbone of Yaga’s day-to-day operations. As our Accounting & Controlling specialist, you’ll own the full accounting cycle across our international entities: from coordinating and auditing the work of external accountants to ensuring the integrity and accuracy of our monthly financial statements through rigorous reconciliation. But this is more than a back-office role. You’ll act as the FP&A business partner to the VP of Finance: delivering the driver analysis, variance explanations, and financial insights needed to inform strategic decisions, including potential re-forecasts. You’ll bring a controlling mindset to everything: building trust in the numbers, tightening processes, and actively leveraging AI and automation to replace repetitive manual work with reliable, scalable systems. Responsibilities Own the full monthly close process across all Yaga entities (EE, SA, and new markets), providing all required inputs to external accountants in each location and ensuring deadlines are met; performing reconciliation tasks to validate completeness and correctness Prepare monthly management accounts (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) and internal reporting packs, ensuring data quality and timeliness Maintain and evolve the internal reporting tool, ensuring it reliably reflects the financial reality of the business Perform detailed budget vs. actuals analysis, identifying and explaining key variances and the drivers behind them to support the VP of Finance's strategic decisions Provide the financial inputs and driver analysis needed to assess whether a re-forecast is warranted and what its key assumptions should be Lead the closing controlling review, the structured checkpoint that ensures numbers are accurate and trustworthy before they are shared with the team or leadership Manage the annual audit process end-to-end: auditor relationship, document preparation, timeline, and follow-through Coordinate payroll data flow between the Operations Lead (HR) and external payroll providers across all entities, verifying the accuracy of payroll inputs and employee cost records before processing Maintain headcount cost tracking and support the VP of Finance in HC budget planning Proactively identify manual or error-prone processes and lead their automation, reducing risk while freeing up time for higher-value analysis What You’ll Bring 4+ years of hands-on accounting and controlling experience, fully or partially in a multi-entity or international environment Strong grounding in accounting standards (IFRS, Estonian or Spanish GAAP) Experience acting as a Controlling business partner; translating numbers into driver-level insights that inform decisions Hands-on ownership of ERP or accounting software (e.g. Merit, Xero, NetSuite, Odoo, or equivalent); not just as a user, but as the person who keeps the back-end clean and reliable A genuine interest in automation: you actively look for ways to remove manual steps from both the input and closing process Openness to and starting-level minimum experience with AI tools; you see them as force multipliers, not threats Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; Estonian is a plus Based in or willing to relocate to Barcelona, Spain, or Estonia Nice to Have Prior experience in a marketplace, fintech, or e-commerce company Exposure to audit management or multi-country tax compliance Familiarity with FP&A tools, financial modelling, or BI dashboards Ability to coordinate and audit the work of external accounting teams across multiple jurisdictions What We Offer You'll join a experienced & supporting Finance team from whom you'll take over aforementioned responsibilities step by step as you settle in A high-ownership role in a lean, senior Finance team; your work directly shapes decisions at the company level Real international exposure across operations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East A team that actively uses AI to eliminate friction; you’ll spend your time on work that matters A remote-friendly, trust-based working culture with genuine autonomy The chance to build and scale alongside Yaga as we expand into new markets Be part of a mission-driven company transforming the second-hand fashion space