
Karim El Kaddioui
FP&A Team Lead | Financial Planning & Analysis
Salary / Daily rate
Vienna, Austria
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
FP&A Team Lead with 12+ years in financial planning, analysis, and AI-driven automation across tech and Fortune 500 companies. Built comprehensive financial models for 3B€+ valued startups and managed 50M€+ budgets at L'Oréal. Specialize in fractional FP&A leadership, no-code solutions, and scaling 6-figure businesses to 7+ figures through data-driven insights.
Work experience
Team Lead Financial Planning & Analysis
Meister
May 2023 - Present
3 years 6 months
Vienna, Austria
On a mission to build and expand the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) function by creating best-in-class FP&A models and tool infrastructure to support leadership decision-making. As a tech & automation nerd, I've built an AI forward team and champion AIs solutions internally. • Lead Financial Planning & Analysis Team: Oversee a team of financial analysts in performing regular FP&A tasks, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial reporting • Financial Analysis: develop, analyze and track financial strategies aligned with the company's goals and objectives, ensuring financial stability, cost optimization, and revenue growth. • Finance and Data Operations: manage day-to-day financial activities, such as monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reviews, tracking key performance indicators, and presenting insights to C-Level for informed decision-making. • Long-Term Model Ownership: Spearheaded the creation and currently owning a comprehensive long-term financial model that serves as a roadmap for the company's growth, enabling accurate forecasting and strategic decision-making aligned with shareholder targets. •Business partnering: setting up an operating rhythm to ensure cross-functional decision-making with business-critical functions
Founder & CEO
Finance for Makers
Aug 2018 - Present
8 years 3 months
Vienna, Austria
Fractional Finance Lead, AI and No-Code expert. Helping successful 6-figure SaaS and E-Commerce companies scale their revenue and profits to 7 figures and more with proprietary FP&A solutions (automated internal reporting tools and KPIs tracking): • implement proprietary processes to grow net revenue retention and identify new pools of expansion revenue • monitor and analyse acquisition KPIs to improve paid traffic ROI • contribute to budgeting and closing cycles to keep budgetary alignment • deep dive into data to identify learnings and efficiencies across the board Additionally, I built and am running a No-code SaaS: live mobile sales dashboarding. Contact me for a free demo.
Global FP&A Revenue Controller
GoStudent
May 2022 - Jul 2023
1 year 3 months
Vienna, Austria
• Vienna based Ed-Tech startup valued at 3B€+ and has raised over 600M€ (SoftBank, Coatue, Left Lane etc.) • Business Partner to Global Marketing & Sales: providing insights, analysis and ad hoc projects • Owner of the Revenue to Total CAC P&L drivers in the internal forecasting model • Developed tailored internal LTC:CAC analysis supporting C-Level strategic decision making • Driving financial literacy across the organization through the lens of LTC:CAC (Country Manager & VP level)
L'Oréal
Jun 2013 - Oct 2017
4 years 5 months
Vienna, Austria
Senior Financial Analyst
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
1 year 3 months
Vienna, Austria
Consumer Products Division, A&P + SG&A All Brands + NYX Retail Controller: • Responsible for 50M€+ in budgets accros the whole P&L • Manage the monthly, quarterly, semester and yearly closings, aswell as the external audits • Manage the A&P + SG&A expenses, and drive the Category and Boutique P&Ls with the local Cross Functional Teams • Manage the profit and advise the Management Committee on the best choices to ensure long-term business success • Simplify, optimize and implement processes to ensure that the Group Standards and Internal Controls are applied • Key user of ERPs, Manager of International IT Project roll out
Sales Controller
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
1 year 7 months
Vienna, Austria
Consumer Products Division, Controller: • Responsible for biggest accounts, +70M€ in revenue and +40M€ in budgets • Manage the monthly, quarterly, semester and yearly closings, support the external audits • Manage the Gross-To-Net and the Customer P&Ls, • Anticipate sales related risks and opportunities, advise the Management Committee on the best business choices to maximize ROI, • Drive the sales-related financial processes associated with the prebudget, budget and trend: assess, analyze and arbitrate with the sales team and elaborate a commercial investment strategy • Key User during ERP international change process
Junior Sales Controller
Jun 2013 - Dec 2014
1 year 7 months
Vienna, Austria
Consumer Products Division, Supermarkets and Discount Controller: • Manage and ensure the delivery of specific KPIs, and the accurate local as well as international data flows, • Support the processes associated with the prebudget, budget and trend, • Ensure that the Group’s standards and those pertaining to internal control are applied, • Support during the monthly closing process and ensure accurate reporting of the data accross. • Support during the implementation of TM1
Financial Controller Intern
L'Oréal
Apr 2012 - Aug 2012
5 months
Vienna, Austria
Consumer Products Division: • KPI and ROI analysis by brand and by customer • Support on establishing the updated budget/trend • Analysis of P&L by customer • Business Intelligence tasks around reporting and the setting up of new dashboards
International Business Analyst Trainee
Cisco Systems
Sep 2010 - Jul 2011
11 months
Brussels Metropolitan Area
European Distribution Sales Finance Team: • Value added reporting and analysis on key business metrics and drivers • Financial analysis and business intelligence support to the European distributors/European Channels team • Distributor tailored inventory analysis on a weekly basis • Incentive and MBO Programs tailored weekly/monthly reporting • Evaluate reports, providing trend analysis, insights into improvements
Cost Controller Intern
Veolia Environnement
Jun 2009 - Dec 2009
7 months
Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Veolia Transportation: • Support account managers in their accounting tasks • Monthly closings • Reporting of KPIs • Support controlling in the elaboration of the budget and budget follow-ups
Education
The Wharton School
Certification
2016 - 2017
1 year 1 month
Universität Innsbruck
Master of Science (MSc)
2011 - 2012
1 year 1 month
NEOMA Business School
Master in Management
2008 - 2012
4 years 1 month
Classe préparatoire HEC
Economics and Math
2006 - 2008
2 years 1 month
Lycée Lyautey
Baccalaureate
2003 - 2006
3 years 1 month