Director of Financial Planning and Analysis
About this role
Fastned is on a mission to accelerate the transition to electric mobility. Since 2012, we have been building and operating a rapidly growing network of iconic fast-charging stations across Europe powered entirely by solar and wind energy. We now operate over 400 stations across nine countries, with an ambitious goal of reaching 1,000 stations by 2030. We are not building infrastructure for its own sake. Every station we open is a tangible step in the transition away from fossil fuels.
We are looking for a Director of Financial Planning and Analysis (Director of FP&A) to build, develop and grow a newly created FP&A function in a fast-growing environment. Fastned is active in a market that is evolving rapidly in terms of customer demand, technology, pricing, competition and regulation.
This role is critical in bringing Finance closer to the business. You will ensure strong financial rigour and transparency, while at the same time act as a trusted business partner to commercial-, operations-, development- and country leadership teams. The aim is twofold: improve financial hygiene and control, and support better decision-making through robust business plans, investment cases and performance insights.
This is a leadership role for someone who combines analytical capability with considered decision-making, strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with autonomy and initiative while building constructive partnerships across the organisation.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead the FP&A function
- Lead, coach and develop a team of 5 controllers across Business, Financial and Consolidation
- Establish a clear operating model, planning calendar and governance for the department
- Build strong collaboration across Finance department, central functions and local markets
- Drive business partnering and decision support
- Serve as a senior finance partner to leadership teams across functions and geographies
- Support development of business plans, investment cases and strategic initiatives with rigorous financial analysis
- Translate financial insights into practical recommendations for non-finance stakeholders
- Strengthen planning and performance management
- Own and continuously improve budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning processes
- Develop a KPI framework and management reporting that gives actionable insight into performance drivers
- Drive scenario planning and sensitivity analysis in a rapidly changing market environment
- Support a capital-intensive growth agenda
- Provide financial leadership on network expansion, capital allocation and investment prioritisation
- Help management balance growth ambitions with financial discipline and return requirements
- Enable a multinational finance setup
- Ensure high-quality consolidation input, cross-country comparability and alignment of planning assumptions across markets
- Support management in understanding local market performance while maintaining group-wide standards and visibility
- Contribute to supervisory board, management board and investor-level reporting materials as needed.
- Who we are looking for
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or similar
- 8-10 years of relevant experience in FP&A, business control, corporate finance or related finance leadership roles in a multinational, fast-paced and preferably capital-intensive environment
- Experience leading teams and building or transforming finance capabilities
- Extensive experience in budgeting, forecasting, performance management and investment appraisal
- Experience partnering with senior business stakeholders and challenging them constructively
- Skills and capabilities
- Analytical and conceptual thinker, with the ability to connect financials to operational and strategic realities
- Clear and engaging communicator, able to make finance accessible to non-finance audiences
- Collaborative and empathic working style, with a talent for building trust across teams and geographies
- Takes initiative and brings structure to ambiguous situations with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach
- High standards for quality and follow-through, balanced with a supportive mindset
- Comfortable navigating a growing organisation where processes and systems are still taking shape
- Equally important, an affinity with Fastned's mission: a genuine belief in the energy transition.
- Join us in building a better future
- We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We put a focus on work-life balance, provide you with genuine work flexibility and have family-friendly policies in place.
- Our benefits include:
- Stock option plan - we believe in shared value creation.
- Attractive Pension plan fully covered by Fastned.
- 29 holidays. Additionally, we give you 2 ‘Mission Days’ you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.
- Daily lunches, snacks & drinks are provided at our office locations.
- Access to our electric car pool, with charging expenses covered
- Company bonus plan.
- Yearly training budget of € 3000.
- Access to the mental health platform Nilo Health including 10 sessions with psychologists.
- Urban Sports Club Subscription.
- Attractive parental benefits above legal minimum, including coaching via Foundtree.
- Accessibility to Women's Health platform Flouria.
- Company events year-round, including an exciting yearly trip abroad with all employees.
- Interested in making an impact?
- We would love to have a conversation with you! Apply today, share your CV and explain in your motivation letter why you’re excited about joining Fastned’s mission in this impactful role. Our talent acquisition team will get back to all applicants in due time to share details about timing & structure of the upcoming recruitment process.
- Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.