Senior Financial Controller – future Head of Finance
Apify
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Prague • 🇨🇿 Czech
Visit company websiteJob Level
Senior
Tech Stack
ERPSwitching
About the role
- Continue building modern financial controlling at Apify that captures all economic transactions and provides actionable reports
- Lead a team of 3 FTE and build up capacity as necessary
- Leverage technology (incl. AI) to work smarter
- Quality and accuracy of financial reports and budgets
- Quality of financial operations (AP, AR, tax, accounting)
- Internal controls
- Monthly financial closings
- ERP transition + adoption of new productivity tools
- Productive relationships with business team-leads in the company
- Monitor day-to-day finance operations and resolve unique, complex inquiries involving cross-functional engagement
- Manage and apply internal controls to accounts payable & receivables
- Manage our budgeting framework: budgeting tools and workflows, incl. scope, structure, format, communication, and approvals
- Organize the team's work and priorities
- Oversee data consistency in reporting (management, investor, financial, ad-hoc)
- Leverage the capabilities of our existing tech-stack to improve data quality, automation, and governance
- Actively seeks new technology and AI to work smarter
- Monitor business performance (KPI)
- Consistently apply integral controls and ensure compliance (inputs from tax and accounting)
Requirements
- You have at least 5 years of experience in financial controlling
- You have experience with technology (or working for tech startups/scaleups)
- You have advanced proficiency in reporting, finance operations
- You have a solid understanding of accounting and tax
- You are a thinker and a doer in 1 person
- You can zoom out and resolve unstructured problems
- You challenge the status quo in a pragmatic way
- You have an open mind to experiment with AI, automation tools to make your work smarter
- You can handle fast context switching among multiple agendas and priorities
- You have advanced proficiency in Czech/Slovak and English
Benefits
- Space, support, and autonomy for personal growth, with a direct impact on our success
- Full-time position in Prague at our amazing office located in Lucerna Palace, Prague, Czech Republic 🏰
- Option to work remotely 🛋️
- Flexible working hours 🕰️
- Nobody counts holidays as long as the work gets done 💪
- Stock options and profit sharing 💰
- Free Multisport card 🏋️♀️
- We welcome pets, kids, and bikes at the office 🐶
- Epic team buildings and offsites 🚢 with biking, canoeing, and other adventures 🪂
- Solid education and training budget, conference tickets, internal “Eat & Learn” sessions, and the possibility to work across teams
- Generous hardware budget 💻
- Free lunches every day when working from the office 🌮🥡
- Unlimited supply of ☕ & 🍺 and snacks
- Free entry to the wonderful Prague Zoo 🐘
- Ping-pong, chess, PS5, lightsabers, foosball league after lunch 🏓
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
financial controllingreportingfinance operationsaccountingtaxbudgetinginternal controlsdata qualityautomationKPI monitoring
Soft skills
leadershipproblem-solvingpragmatic thinkingadaptabilitycommunicationteam organizationrelationship buildingcritical thinkingopen-mindednesscontext switching