Head of Finance (m/f/d)

You've prepared and presented board materials, and you've been through a financial due diligence - ideally on the company side.

Bridges finance and startup culture. You bring the rigour a finance function demands, while working productively with fast decisions and shifting priorities.

Appetite for automation.

You actively look for ways to take manual work out of the close and the reporting cycle, so the team's time goes into analysis rather than assembly.

Strong communicator.

You translate complex financial data into clear narratives for stakeholders without a finance background, and you're confident in the room with founders, board and investors. Fluent German and English, written and verbal.

Who We Don't Want

Manages the status quo.

You run an inherited function competently, but you don't develop it further.

Reports instead of advising.

You deliver numbers without drawing a recommendation from them, and consider the job done once the report is sent.

Treats the model as personal property.

You build something only you can operate with undocumented logic and manual overrides nobody else can follow. Uncomfortable in front of investors.

You need stable priorities and permanently fixed responsibilities.

• You independently own monthly and annual closings under HGB
• including revenue recognition and accruals
• and you coordinate the annual audit with our external auditors through to completed financial statements.
• Expert financial modelling.
• integrated three-statement models from scratch and you document them so that others can operate them too.
• Forecasting.
• You've owned full budget and forecast cycles
• you bring together top-down targets and bottom-up input from team leads
• and you treat forecast accuracy as a measurable figure that has to improve.
• Business partner.
• not just the numbers and you follow up on whether it gets implemented.