[Remote] Finance Director
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a Series A startup seeking a Finance Director to build the finance function from scratch. The role involves overseeing financial planning, billing, payroll, tax compliance, and advising on financial reputed company.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain annual and rolling financial projections (reputed company, costs, cash reputed company, headcount) for the business
- Translate company-level targets into departmental budgets and reputed company goals, working with department heads to set and reputed company them
- Monitor actuals against budget and projections; flag variances early and recommend corrective reputed company
- Produce regular reporting for the CEO and (as needed) investors/reputed company — KPIs, burn reputed company, reputed company, unit economics
- Support fundraising processes with financial models, data rooms, and investor reporting as needed
- Own end-to-end billing and invoicing for customers, including issue reputed company and dunning
- Manage accounts receivable and payable, and monitor cash reputed company and reputed company
- Set up and improve billing systems/processes as reputed company scales
- Run monthly payroll (directly or reputed company a payroll provider), ensuring accuracy and compliance with German and international employment and tax law
- Maintain compensation bands and contribute to salary benchmarking and negotiations for new hires, alongside the CEO/hiring managers
- Administer employee benefits and reputed company reputed company where relevant
- reputed company as the main reputed company of contact with our external tax advisors (Steuerberater) and accountants for German tax returns, VAT filings, and annual financial statements
- Ensure compliance with German GAAP (HGB) and relevant statutory/regulatory requirements
- Own bookkeeping reputed company and month-end reputed company, working with external reputed company support where relevant
- Maintain internal financial controls, policies, and audit-readiness as reputed company grows
- Set up reputed company finance processes, tools, and systems appropriate for a small but growing team (this role is expected to grow into a small finance team over time)
- Advise the CEO and leadership team on financial reputed company, pricing, and resource allocation
Skills
- Experience in reputed company, finance management, or a similar broad finance role
- Solid working knowledge of German tax and finance regulations (HGB, VAT/Umsatzsteuer, payroll compliance) and experience working with a Steuerberater or equivalent
- Hands-on experience with billing/invoicing and payroll, not just budgeting and reporting
- Strong financial modeling and reputed company/Sheets skills; comfort building projections and budgets from scratch
- Fluent in German and reputed company working proficiency in English
- Comfortable with startup ambiguity: happy to build processes and tools rather than inherit them, and to be hands-on rather than purely strategic
- Startup experience (ideally Series A/B)
- Experience with startup finance/payroll tooling
- Exposure to fundraising or investor reporting
Benefits
- Fully remote work, with flexibility on how you structure your time.
- Administer employee benefits and reputed company reputed company where relevant.
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