Head of Finance - Central Platform & Group HR/Opex Controlling

Company Description

Believe is one of the world’s leading digital music companies. Believe’s mission is to develop local artists and labels in the digital ecosystem by providing them the solutions they need to grow their audience at each stage of their career and development.

Its 2,020 employees in more than 50 countries aim to support local artists and labels with a unique digital expertise, respect, fairness, and transparency.

To support our fast-growing presence on all continents, we are constantly looking for new Believers to join us and make a stronger and more positive impact on the music industry! Believe is listed on compartment A of the regulated market of Euronext Paris (Ticker: BLV, ISIN: FR0014003FE9).

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Job Description

Role overview: We are looking for a seasoned finance controlling leader to own and steer HR and Central Platform Opex Controlling globally, with a particular focus on our Tech and Product organizations. Based in our Mumbai hub, you will operate as a key member of the extended leadership team, working closely with senior stakeholders in France and India while leading a four‑person team split across both countries.

The role spans all people‑related and central platform operating expenses, with a clear center of gravity on technical and platform controlling (product and operations, tech investments, and cloud platforms), which account for the majority of our central platform spend.

You will be the primary finance partner to Tech, Product, and HR leadership on all HR and central platform Opex topics – shaping investment decisions, challenging assumptions, and providing clear, data‑driven recommendations that influence the company’s strategic roadmap.

Key responsibilities

• Own end to end HR and central platform Opex controlling for: people costs,

• external workforce, cloud and infrastructure, and other central operating expenses.

• Lead the annual budget, forecasts, and multiyear plans for this perimeter, ensuring alignment with product and technology roadmaps and overall company strategy.

• Act as the primary finance partner for Tech and Product leaders on product roadmaps and platform initiatives: build and challenge business cases, model ROI and payback, and track delivery versus plan.

• Drive deep technical controlling of cloud and platform spend: monitor usage and commitments, analyze unit economics and cost drivers, and identify optimization and savings opportunities in partnership with engineering and platform teams.

• Manage headcount and FTE planning across locations (internal and external), consolidating hiring plans, org changes, and workforce strategies into coherent financial views.

• Oversee month end closings for the scope (accruals, provisions, capitalizations, allocations, reclasses) in line with Group accounting and controlling policies.

• Design, automate, and continuously improve management reporting, dashboards, and KPIs that give clear insight into HR and Opex performance for senior stakeholders.

• Partner with HR on compensation review cycles, incentive plans, workforce programs, and organizational design topics, providing robust financial analysis and scenarios.

• Lead, coach, and develop a distributed team of controllers (Mumbai and France), setting clear objectives, ways of working, and a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

• Contribute to global Controlling and HR projects (tools, processes, data quality, standardization) and share best practices across entities.

Candidate profile:

• 12–15 years in FP&A/controlling with at least several years in tech, digital product, or platform driven environments.

• Demonstrated experience where at least 50–70% of your controlling scope was technical/platform: product portfolio or roadmap controlling, tech investment business cases, cloud/infrastructure/platform cost management.

• Strong background in HR and Opex controlling: people cost and external workforce, operating expenses, and cost optimization across central functions.

• Proven experience partnering with senior nonfinance stakeholders (CTO, CPO, CHRO, Engineering and Product heads) and influencing decisions through data driven insights.

• Prior experience leading small to midsized finance teams, ideally across multiple locations; comfortable managing direct reports in India and France.

• Excellent communication, synthesis, and storytelling skills; able to translate complex technical and financial topics into clear, actionable messages.

• Experience in multinational organizations, ideally partnering with Europe based leaders.

• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets; strong user of planning/ERP tools and BI (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).

• Fluent in English; French is a plus but not mandatory.

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant is must

• Additional certifications in management accounting or analytics (CMA, CFA,FP&A, data/BI) are a plus, not a must.

Additional Information

Benefits @Believe:

#Flexibility – Just punch in leaves, not intime and out time #Office perks – a game of foosball, table tennis to bat the afternoon lacklustre, free event pass for exclusive and limited shows, music subscription, etc #Wellbeing – Caring by EUTELMED, professionals are at your disposal for advice and support, in your own language and culture #Transperancy – engaged in secondary activity just disclose it to us #Sustainability – You can be a part of CSR program, represent yourself as a #shaper and contribute to a better future.

Disclaimer: Believe strongly promotes equal treatment regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies.