Business Unit Controller

Verve • New York, US • Full Time • $120,000–$150,000 / year

Posted on Mon, Oct 26, 2026

Who We Are

Verve has created a more efficient and privacy-focused way to buy and monetize advertising. Verve is an ecosystem of demand and supply technologies fusing data, media, and technology together to deliver results and growth to both advertisers and publishers–no matter the screen or location, no matter who, what, or where a customer is. With offices across the globe and with an eye on servicing forward-thinking advertising customers, Verve’s solutions are trusted by more than 90 of the United States’ top 100 advertisers, 4,000 publishers globally, and the world’s top demand-side platforms. Learn more at verve.com.

Verve For Advertisers is a technology company that empowers brands and agencies to target audiences based on declared intent, following them from initial curiosity to ultimate decisioning, to drive measurable outcomes.

As Business Unit Controller you take full financial ownership of the Marketplace Business— from revenue and cost of sales through to EBITDA. You are the finance counterpart to business unit leadership: you explain what happened, forecast what is coming, and flag what needs to change.

You will join at a point where the finance function is moving from reporting-focused controlling towards forward-looking planning and analysis. This is a hands-on role with high visibility: you will work directly with business unit leads and Group Accounting, and you will have real influence over how performance is measured and understood across the group.

What You Will Do

Own the business unit P&L, end to end
- Take ownership of the full P&L for your assigned business units: gross revenue, cost of sales, net revenue margin, personnel costs, external costs and all SG&A lines
- Understand and challenge the operational drivers behind each line
- Safeguard cost center and account-level integrity, ensuring spend is recorded in the correct entity, business unit and cost line
- Manage intercompany recharges and eliminations relevant to your business units
Support the month-end close
- Prepare and review accruals, prepayments and manual adjustments within close deadlines
- Reconcile ledger data to consolidated actuals and resolve differences before reporting
- Produce variance analysis (month-on-month, budget-versus-actual, year-on-year) with clear root-cause commentary traceable to source data
- Contribute to close quality improvements — fewer late adjustments and cleaner first-pass numbers
Present the numbers to stakeholders
- Present monthly performance to business unit leads and Group leadership
- Translate financial movements into a clear business narrative rather than a list of variances
- Own the recurring reporting pack for your business units and stand behind the detail
Drive budgeting, forecasting and modelling
- Run the annual budget and rolling forecast cycles for your business units together with operational stakeholders, in support of the Director of FP&A
- Build and maintain driver-based financial models at the appropriate level of detail
- Track forecast accuracy over time and explain deviations
- Support ad-hoc modelling: scenario analysis, business cases, and margin and profitability deep dives

What You Will Bring

5+ years of experience in controlling or audit, ideally in a multi-entity environment
Experience in adtech, SaaS or another platform business
Demonstrated P&L ownership and confident financial modelling skills in Excel
Comfort working with large ledger data sets and reconciling data across multiple systems
The ability to present to, and constructively challenge, senior non-finance stakeholders
Structured, accuracy-focused working style and the ability to meet close deadlines
Fluent business English

Nice To Have

Hands-on experience with LucaNet and NetSuite
Working knowledge of IFRS in a consolidated group
Experience in a listed company reporting environment
Basic SQL literacy

What We Offer

Some company benefits include:

Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus mental health resources
401(k) match and generous PTO
Pre-tax FSA and HSA plans for Healthcare, Dependent care, and Commuting
Paid Parental Leave for life’s important milestones
Hybrid work environment (NYC office)
Free lunch for onsite team members in NYC

Communications regarding your application will only come from @jungroup.com or @verve.com email addresses.

Salary Range

$120,000—$150,000 USD

Verve provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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