M&A Finance & Project Controller

Karo Healthcare, a dynamic and growing personal-care retail company, is all about making smart choices for everyday healthcare. 

With a wide-ranging portfolio across seven categories including medical products, we own and sell over 80 brands in about 90 countries. Our portfolio includes such brands as E45, Pevaryl, Lamisil, Nutravita, Decubal, and many others. Our core belief in empowering people to make intelligent health decisions drives our growth strategy, blending organic expansion and M&A. 
Join us at Karo Healthcare on our exciting journey. We're currently looking for an M&A Finance & Project Controller for our office in Düsseldorf, Germany. 

What’s in it for you? 

Be part of a fast-paced, international business where your insights and impact are felt across markets. 
You’ll join a hands-on, high-performing finance team that collaborates closely with commercial and operational leaders across Europe. 
Expect broad exposure to senior management, M&A execution, and finance transformation projects - a role designed for those seeking growth, learning, and career development in a dynamic environment. 

What you’ll be doing 

• Drive value creation across acquisitions and strategic initiatives by ensuring synergies, savings, and growth targets are achieved. 

• Own and manage value-creation trackers, ensuring accurate monitoring of financial and operational performance. 

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Commercial, Operations, and Integration teams to challenge assumptions, identify risks, and drive corrective actions. 

• Support strategic initiatives and M&A activities by providing financial analysis, modeling, and business case validation across key value creation levers (e.g. revenue growth, cost efficiency, working capital).

• Assist in post-acquisition integration, aligning performance to the investment case and embedding KPIs into reporting processes. 

• Prepare insights and presentations for senior management and investors, highlighting progress, risks, and improvement opportunities. 

• Contribute to finance transformation by supporting key projects such as implementing new consolidation and reporting tools. 

• Deliver ad-hoc, high-impact analyses that influence key business decisions. 

• Degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related field. 

• 2–4 years of experience in financial analysis, M&A, consulting, or FP&A, ideally in FMCG, healthcare, or other fast-moving industries. 

• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills, with a proactive and problem-solving mindset. 

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, international environment with multiple stakeholders. 

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights. 

• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with consolidation or BI tools is a plus. 

• A hands-on, curious, and results-driven attitude - ready to grow with a company that’s scaling fast. 

• Opportunity to create, grow, and encourage
• Apart from a competitive salary pack, there are lots of growth opportunities to meet your personal ambitions
• Flexible schedule, hybrid model with the primary work place in the office, and life-work balance
• Responsibility for exciting and challenging projects that have a direct, visible impact on our customers and the industry
• Very positive work environment in a dynamic, international, and motivated team
• Start-up spirit while being a part of the large international organization with strong values

Karo Healthcare has a Diverse & Inclusive environment. We are looking for qualified candidates irrespective of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, disability or age.