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Melissa Lim

Fractional FP&A & Controlling | SaaS Finance

1.400 €/Tag
Berlin, DE
8-15 Jahre

Durchschnittliche Reaktionszeit: 1h

Über Melissa

Most businesses reach a point where costs have grown quietly in the background and nobody has ever built a clean, reliable place to see the full picture — let alone model what happens next.

I build that structure.

I'm a financial planning and analysis specialist with 10 years inside SaaS startups and scaleups. I've worked across budgeting, rolling forecasts, headcount planning, cost diagnostics, and P&L management — at companies where getting the numbers wrong had real consequences.

I build bespoke budgeting and forecasting models for businesses that don't yet have a finance hire. Built around your actual cost structure, your revenue model, your hiring plan. When I hand it over, I walk you through it so you can run it yourself from day one. No dependency, no black box.

A typical engagement covers: revenue modelling, headcount and cost planning, scenario planning, cash flow, and a dashboard with the numbers that actually drive decisions. The output is an Excel or Google Sheets model you own outright.
If your finances are currently held together with assumptions nobody has tested — or you know you need proper budgeting, forecasting, and financial controls but haven't known where to start — that's exactly what I work on. Excel and Google Sheets, built for you, handed over clean.

If that sounds like your situation, let's talk.
  • Englisch

    Muttersprachlich oder zweisprachig

  • Deutsch

    Konversationssicher

  • Chinesisch

    Muttersprachlich oder zweisprachig

  • Cantonese

    Verhandlungssicher

Vor Ort möglich
Berlin (bis zu 50 km)

Projekt- und Berufserfahrung

  • HRS Group
    Senior Controller
    TRAVEL AND TOURISM
    April 2025 - April 2026 (1 Jahr)
    Cologne, Deutschland
    Global business-travel technology

    Owned group-level cost controlling across the Product House (4 pillars, 33 cost centres), partnering with 13+ VPs and Directors — steering ~10% cost reductions in 2025 and ~€1.3M savings in the 2026 budget. Cut month-end close from 10+ days to 8, improving reporting speed by 20%. Built the operational and reporting workflow for a major new customer worth ~€0.9M won in 2025.
    Financial Modelling Budgeting & Forecasting FP&A Cost Reduction
  • softgarden e-recruiting GmbH
    Senior Controller
    TECH
    Juli 2022 - April 2025 (2 Jahre und 9 Monate)
    Berlin, Germany
    Leading German e-recruiting SaaS

    - 200 FTE
    - ~€20M

    Led FP&A with full P&L cost ownership for a ~€20M ARR SaaS business, delivering board reporting and financial insight that drove business steering.
    Redesigned budgeting and rolling forecasting across 2 BUs and 1 subsidiary, including headcount planning and scenario modelling.

    Built and maintained the ARR bridge tracking new business, expansion, contraction, and churn; raised KPI reporting efficiency 15% via SQL/Tableau automation.

    Strengthened cost controls across 18 departments (+15% variance-analysis accuracy) and designed IFRS-compliant processes cutting close timelines by 4 days.

    Developed a cash-flow forecasting model integrating P&L and headcount assumptions for scenario planning and liquidity visibility.
    Budgeting & Forecasting SAAS Financial Modelling
  • AnyDesk Software GmbH
    Team Lead, Controlling & Reporting
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    Januar 2021 - Juni 2022 (1 Jahr und 5 Monate)
    Stuttgart, Deutschland
    Proprietary remote-desktop software

    - 150 FTE
    ◦ · ~€25M revenue

    Designed and ran an agile budgeting process with 15+ department heads, embedding financial discipline and faster decision-making.

    Owned the finance workstream for the NetSuite ERP implementation — defined chart of accounts and entity setup, completed UAT ahead of go-live.

    Scaled the controlling function's processes and analytical capability as the team grew from 1 to 4.
    Budgeting & Forecasting FP&A SAAS Financial Modelling

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Ausbildung und Abschlüsse

  • MSc Finance
    Queen Mary University of London
    2013
    MSc Finance
  • BSc Economics
    University of East Anglia
    2010
    BSc Economics

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