Senior Specialist (f/m/d) Global Finance Technology & Data

Your Mission

As Senior Specialist (f/m/d) Global Finance Technology & Data, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our financial landscape. Your mission is to lead our global technology initiatives, with a primary focus on elevating our financial data structures and advancing our forecasting capabilities using Pigment. Working with cross-functional teams, you will design and execute a sophisticated data strategy for the finance domain, ensuring the delivery of unparalleled insights and leveraging cutting-edge technology to provide a clear view of our business health.

What You'll Be Doing

• Act as the primary product owner for the Pigment platform, owning its architecture, release management, environment strategy, administration, and vendor relationships to ensure high availability and performance.
• Maintain and evolve driver-based forecasting, rolling forecasts, and scenario analysis in Pigment, owning the calculation engine to ensure forecasting outputs reconcile to the GL and consolidated reporting.
• Define and execute the integration strategy between Pigment and the finance data landscape, including ETL/ELT patterns, APIs, data contracts, and monitoring.
• Establish and run governance for model validation, testing, reconciliation, SLAs, and data quality to ensure compliance, controls, and audit readiness.
• Partner with FP&A, Accounting, Business Units, and executives to translate business needs into a prioritized Pigment roadmap and drive user adoption.
• Build, lead, and mentor a small, cross-functional team of Pigment modelers, data engineers, and analysts, running an agile delivery cadence to ensure timely, high-quality releases.
• Drive continuous improvement by automating processes, optimizing performance, and evaluating new tools and advanced analytics or machine learning opportunities.

What We Are Looking For

• Proven experience leading finance-technology or FP&A systems development, with ownership of a planning or forecasting platform at scale.
• Hands-on Pigment expertise, including model architecture, advanced formulas, workspace design, API/integration, and platform administration.
• Deep expertise in data modeling and warehousing, with a proven track record of implementing complex data structures.
• A strong grasp of business planning, financial forecasting processes, and financial statements, with the ability to align data initiatives with strategic financial goals.
• Extensive experience with financial systems and data analysis tools, showcasing a deep understanding of the intersection between finance and technology.
• A unique ability to bridge the gap between technical data science and strategic financial planning.
• A commitment to staying current with the latest trends in technology and finance to drive innovation.
• Proficiency with BI tools such as Looker, Power BI, or Tableau to create impactful visualizations and insights.
• A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Computer Science, or a related field is required. A Master's degree in a relevant field is preferred.

Now What's In It For You

• A modern office in the heart of Berlin and flexible options for remote work
• Numerous benefits such as a free BVG job ticket, a reduced-price membership for Urban Sports, company bike leasing, discounts for Bertelsmann employees, among others
• Ongoing training opportunities on our internal platforms BMG Campus and Bertelsmann University
• Long-term career opportunities for all employees
• A collaborative work environment with an open, appreciative community of people who all share the same passion for working with artists and songwriters
• Our unique corporate culture based on strong values and mutual support that make us a great team