Head of People Controlling (Workforce Planning)

Location: Singapore; on-site

Company

foodpanda is part of hirify.global, a global local-delivery platform operating in around 65 countries and headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

What you will do

• Lead the integrated workforce-planning process across annual budgeting, regular forecasting, and multi-year planning cycles.
• Drive headcount, capacity, capability, and personnel-cost planning across more than 5,000 employees and 15+ markets in Europe and APAC.
• Connect People and Finance planning assumptions, definitions, ownership models, deadlines, and approval workflows.
• Own the Anaplan workforce-planning process and align it with the Anaplan P&L module.
• Lead actuals-versus-plan reviews, identify variances and root causes, and coordinate corrective actions.
• Build and mentor the Workforce Planning team while establishing data-quality, access, and version-management controls.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in workforce planning, HR controlling, FP&A, people analytics, financial planning, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading planning processes and coordinating or managing teams in a matrix environment.
• Strong knowledge of headcount management, organisational structures, personnel-cost planning, budgeting, forecasting, and P&L mechanics.
• Hands-on experience with Anaplan or comparable systems, preferably across workforce-planning and financial-planning modules.
• Strong analytical judgement, stakeholder-management skills, and experience handling sensitive employee, compensation, and organisational data.
• Professional proficiency in English and availability to work on-site in Singapore.

Nice to have

• Experience with Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or comparable tools.
• Experience supporting reorganisations, restructuring, operating-model changes, or multi-country shared-service organisations.

Culture & Benefits

• High-profile exposure to senior leadership and C-level executives, including the CEO and CFO.
• Opportunity to build workforce-planning governance, standards, and a dedicated team.
• Total compensation may include benefits, equity, and variable bonuses for eligible roles.