The Job

As FP&A controller you’re involved in strategic financial guidance, managing budgets & forecasts, building financial models, analyzing performance, and providing data-driven insights to leadership for business decisions. We want you to act as a crucial link between finance and the business to drive profitability and growth through proactive planning and analysis. Key duties include variance analysis, KPI tracking, long-term planning, and business partnering.


As Cost Controller you are the linking pin between the business and the impact on financial costs and investments of the business area. You collaborate with stakeholders all around the organization such as Sales, Marketing, Operations and IT. You create insights and identify opportunities to improve efficiency in the business and enable cost savings potential. The Controller is part of the FP&A team (6 other colleagues) and indirectly reporting into the CFO of stichd.

Your Mission

• Act as a business partner to management/stakeholders with planning, analysis & reporting on (financial) performance and advising for future decision making;
• Execute the Planning & Control cycle, from accurate planning to insightful reporting, with identifying key actions to support sustainable business going forward;
• Monitor the Operational cost of the organization to improve execution and spending;
• Drive business case calculations on new opportunities in cooperation with the business, including financial review on performance of new business after Go-Live;
• Deliver business analyses on sales and cost performance and link financial insights to our business strategies and operational execution; and
• Collaborate with Finance to optimize reporting data and KPIs, ensuring accurate and consistent insights to support effective planning, cost analysis, and decision-making.

Your Talent

• Good communication skills with an open and curious personality;
• Team player who is able to speak up;
• Able to take responsibility for work carried out in a structured and efficient way;
• Excellent analytical skills, critical and comfortable to deep dive into details while keeping in mind the bigger picture;
• Hands-on and 'can-do' mentality;
• English verbal and written language skills;
• Experience: Minimum 3 years relevant working experience in an international environment; and
• Education: Minimum a Master’s degree in Business Economics / Financial Management or Bachelor level with additional personal or professional development.

This role is based in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Working remotely from other countries is not possible.

To apply for this role, you must already have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We will not apply for work or residence permits.

We Offer

•    Our salaries are based on 38 hours per week, but fulltime work is 40 hours per week. Instead, you choose between a lot of holidays; 40 per year ór choose for a 40-hour salary per month with still 28 holidays. You can switch every six months;
•    Annual bonus scheme;
•    New hires (introduction) days;
•    Great offer of e-learnings and a training offer for personal development;
•    Enough free fruit for you daily vitamins;
•    Provided lunch for low cost;
•    Choose between lease-bike, NS Business Card or travel by car for € 0,23 per km (>10km).
•    8% holiday allowance, employee insurances and a good pension scheme;
•    Employee discount on the PUMA, Levi’s, Fuelforfans and BMW Lifestyle websites;
•    Hybrid working. On fulltime basis 3 days in the office and 2 days at home (incl. allowance for home working);
•    Flexible working hours, modern workspace and a good working atmosphere;
•    International working environment with colleagues of more than 50 different nationalities;
•    Wellbeing activities (f.e. yoga, pilates and bootcamp);
•    Community involvement (stichd impact tool);
•    stichd drinks 5/6x per year in the city center of Den Bosch;
•    Work hard, play hard. Our stichd-events are legendary.

About Us

As a family of experts - currently employing over 750 people - we focus on creating exceptional products within our categories. From branded socks and underwear to fashionable swimwear and iconic fanwear, we are proud to Consciously Craft Convenience for customers and consumers.

Partnering with global A-list brands our current brand portfolio includes PUMA, Tommy Hilfiger, Levi’s, Head and Calvin Klein for our Essentials. For our Fanwear business: BMW Motorsport, Formula 1, Williams Racing, Porsche Motorsport, Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team, Aston Martin F1 Team and Manchester City Football Club. And for our Lifestyle business: BMW Lifestyle. 

Through weaving together Design, Sales, Logistics, Marketing and Digital, we create a seamless one-stop-shop environment. A member of the PUMA Group, stichd is a licensee with its head office located in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. In addition, stichd has a global presence with sales offices throughout Europe, China, in Southeast Asia and North America. The company’s warehousing and logistics are in Tilburg, Netherlands, Mexico City, Malaysia and the United States of America.

If you’re interested in this position and meet the requirements, click 'Apply' now!

Acquisition as a result of vacancies is not appreciated.

stichd provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all is one of the core principles at stichd and PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.