Job Description
ID:REF19136J
Your Mission
As Director of Finance you will be the key strategic advisor to the General Manager of Glovo Spain - one of Glovo’s largest and most strategic markets. With full ownership of the country’s financial planning, performance steering, and strategic decision-making, you will play a key role in shaping the financial health, strategic direction and long-term success of the business in a highly competitive and fast-evolving environment.
You will lead a high-performing team that combines financial excellence with strategic foresight, partnering with leaders across operations, marketing, q-commerce, commercial and more, ensuring that every initiative is value-generating, and every euro spent creates real impact.
Qualifications
- Lead a Finance team that delivers insights, proactively identifies opportunities, and challenges the status quo to shape the future of our business.
- Be the strategic right-hand to the General Manager: provide guidance on the country's roadmap, investment decisions, business model evolution, and other opportunities.
- Own and steer the full P&L;, from revenue levers to cost optimization.
- Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and monthly performance reviews, partnering with all departments to drive transparency and accountability.
- Develop business cases, scenario analyses, and predictive models to guide expansion, commercial strategy, operational optimisation and innovation efforts.
- Partner with the central finance, strategy, and data teams to ensure alignment and best-in-class execution.
- Be a trusted counterpart in C-level discussions with accountability over financial storytelling and performance insights.
- Own process improvement and the finance operations roadmap in collaboration with local and global stakeholders.
- Support and oversee treasury and accounting needs as well as monitor and prepare financial policies and Financial Statements.
- Supervise the relationship with third parties: external auditors, administrations, external consultants as required.
- Represent the country in international forums, sharing learnings and helping shape Glovo’s global playbook.
What You Will Bring to the Ride
Experience & Background
- 10–15+ years’ experience in Finance, or equivalent high-impact environments.
- Proven experience in senior leadership roles, with full P&L; exposure and cross-functional business acumen.
- Track record in leading high-performing teams, including recruiting and developing top talent.
- Strong exposure to high-growth, tech, e-commerce, FMCG or marketplace environments.
- Background in CFO-track roles in fast-paced companies is a strong plus.
- Fluency in Spanish and English is required.
Skills & Leadership Competencies
- Strategic Mindset – You think 12–24 months ahead and connect data to ambition.
- Business Judgment – You see trade-offs, risks, and upside at 30,000ft and 3cm levels.
- Data Fluency – You know how to build hypotheses, extract insight, and challenge assumptions.
- Executive Presence – Able to influence and challenge senior leadership and inspire high-performing teams.
- Executional Excellence – Structured, detail-oriented, and relentless in ensuring things get done.
- People Leadership – Strong management skills with the ability to inspire, coach, and develop.
- Resilience & Adaptability – Able to navigate ambiguity, thrive under pressure, and embrace change.
- Ownership & Bias for Action – You operate like an owner, take initiative, and act decisively.
Culture
- Ability to work in a high growth and high-performing environment with a fast pace while being hands-on and autonomous.
- Adaptable and positive mindset: possess a adaptable attitude towards evolving roles within the finance domain; we value versatility & the ability to adapt to new challenges while ensuring a consistent job scope.
- A can-do attitude and endless curiosity, you wonder why something happened, spend hours figuring it out, and can’t stop thinking about solutions.
- Obsessed with continuous improvements, delivering value and allergic to manual tasks
- An empathetic and inclusive attitude - you are always respectful, kind, and fair.
Why Glovo? ✨
- One of Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in a global ecosystem with Delivery Hero.
- High-impact role with exposure to the leadership team & international sc
📌 Finance Director (Madrid)
🏢 Glovo
📍 Madrid