Financial Analyst

Join eBay’s Germany Finance team as a Financial Analyst, driving financial performance for the Marketplaces business. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners, analyze diverse data, and provide actionable insights for operational and strategic decisions. Key responsibilities include owning month-end close activities, managing budgets and forecasts for DE and European Central Markets, building financial models for Trading & Monetization, partnering with business functions to optimize performance, preparing executive financial narratives, and implementing operational enhancements through process optimization and AI leverage.

Must Have

• 2-3 years of experience in FP&A, Corporate finance, or Controllership.
• Fluent in English and German.
• Experience navigating a matrixed organization.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Comfort using generative AI tools for analysis and presentations.
• Process-improvement mentality.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Powerpoint) and Google Workspace.
• High attention to detail, sound financial judgment, and understanding of data quality, governance.

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About the role and the team:

Join eBay’s Germany Finance team and help drive the financial performance of our Marketplaces business. In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional business partners, work with diverse data sources, and deliver actionable insights that support both operational execution and long-term strategic decisions.

You will play a key role in financial planning, performance tracking, and ad-hoc analysis in a fast-paced, diverse environment. Through ownership of analyses and projects, you will develop a deep understanding of the business and contribute directly to decisions that help shape eBay’s growth in Germany.

What you will accomplish:

• Own Month end close activities, Managing the budget & Forecast for the P&L of DE and European Central Markets and provide variance analysis.
• Build and maintain financial models especially for Trading & Monetization to support business & performance decisions.
• Partner with business functions and cross-functional teams to optimize financial performance.
• Prepare executive-ready financial narratives and presentations.
• Implement operational enhancements to improve efficiency via process optimization & leveraging AI.

What you will bring:

• 2–3 years of experience in FP&A, Corporate finance, or Controllership.
• Fluent in English and German
• Experience in navigating across a matrixed organization.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while balancing multiple priorities.
• Comfort using generative AI tools to assist with analysis and presentation development, demonstrating keen judgment to validate outputs.
• A process-improvement mentality with the ability to identify manual workflows and replace them with scalable, well-controlled solutions.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office (especially Excel and Powerpoint) and Google Workspace
• High attention to detail, sound financial judgment, and understanding of data quality, governance