Senior Finance Manager (m/f/d)

As our (Senior) Finance Manager, you’ll own the full finance stack - accounting, FP&A, and finance operations - turning raw data into fast, accurate decisions. You’ll partner cross-functionally with Product, Ops, Commercial and Growth and report to the Managing Director/Co-Founder.

Activities

Key Responsibilities:

• Finance: Run a 5-day close, maintain policies/controls, coordinate audits/taxes, and deliver accurate management accounts.
• Accounting: Manage day-to-day bookkeeping and coordinate our Steuerberater for our group companies; ensure accurate accruals, deferrals, revenue recognition, and fixed-asset tracking; consolidate our group accounts.
• Payroll Accounting: Oversee payroll inputs, benefits accounting, and equity accounting (incl. EIP / VSOP), working with external providers.
• Finance operations & treasury: Build O2C/P2P, automate bank/GL/billing reconciliations (≥95% auto-match), manage cash ladder/runway, and optimize working capital; implement disciplined AP/AR processes (invoice flow, approvals, three-way match, dunning) and ensure timely collections.
• FP&A & decision support: Own the operating model and rolling forecast, run scenarios, track unit economics/KPIs, cash flows/runway and deliver investor-grade board packs (±5–10% accuracy).
• Cross-functional partnering: Work with Founders, Product, Ops, and Data to turn numbers into decisions on pricing, hiring, and growth; drive root-cause fixes.
• Tooling & scaling: Select/implement the finance stack (GL, billing, spend, BI), set cadences and SLAs, and build toward a small high-performing finance team.
• Ensure tax compliance: (VAT, Körperschaftsteuer, Lohnsteuer) and support statutory filings and audits.

Requirements

• Experience: 2-5+ years across high-growth fintech/tech (seed–Series B) with hands-on ownership of close, FP&A, and payments/treasury. Prior experience as first/early finance hire or small-team lead strongly preferred.
• Accounting: Basic foundations in HGB; practical IFRS exposure is a plus. Comfortable setting policies, leading audits, and working with a Steuerberater.
• FP&A: Basic experience in fintech related driver-based models, unit economics, cohort analysis, and scenario planning; can connect model outputs to real decisions.
• Finance Operations: First experiences building O2C/P2P processes, billing/revenue ops, collections/dunning, vendor management, and bank/GL reconciliations with SLA discipline.
• Treasury & Cash: Experience with multi-account structures, cash forecasting, working-capital levers; can design pragmatic controls for a lean team.
• Tooling: Proficient with modern finance stacks (e.g., Datev or similar GL; Moss; G-Suite/Excel/Sheets; a BI layer like Looker/Metabase).
• Data Fluency: Strong SQL/Sheets/Excel; can build reliable data flows and QA numbers across systems.
• Ownership & Pace: Bias to action, operational rigor, and comfort operating with ambiguity in a <20-person environment.
• Communication: Clear writer and presenter; able to distill complexity into crisp narratives for founders, team, and investors.

Application Process

• Screening Call with founder
• Deep-Dive Interview
• Case Study
• Meeting with 2 other founders