Mateo

Chief of Staff, Finance

Mateo

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Berlin • Germany

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Salary

💰 €100,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Close collaboration with our founder Domenik: You will work directly with him as his extended arm in Finance and jointly make strategic decisions.
  • Rethinking finance with AI & automation: Identify manual processes in the finance area and automate them using tools such as n8n or Zapier.
  • Financial planning, budgeting & forecasting: Take ownership of financial planning and continuously develop it.
  • KPI, cash flow & liquidity monitoring: Monitor the key metrics and derive actionable recommendations.
  • Reporting for investors & executive management: Prepare monthly reports, dashboards and analyses, and support the preparation of investor presentations.
  • Tool implementation & enablement: When new finance tools are introduced, you are responsible for rolling them out to the team and ensuring adoption.
  • Internal point of contact for all finance topics: You are the first point of contact for all teams — from Sales and Customer Success to Product.
  • Collaboration with external partners: Coordinate relationships with tax advisors, banks and auditors.

Requirements

  • Completed degree in business administration, finance, controlling, business informatics or equivalent — a master’s degree is a clear plus
  • 1–2 years of experience in a finance-adjacent role — e.g. audit, investment banking, corporate finance or finance in a startup
  • Confident user of Excel and Google Sheets
  • Ideally, initial experience with finance tools such as Stripe, DATEV or similar
  • Ideally, initial experience with automation tools such as n8n or Zapier
  • Team-player mentality and genuine enthusiasm for actively shaping processes
  • Native-level German and solid English skills
Benefits
  • Steep learning curve: Work directly with our founding team and gain deep insights into strategy, growth and company building.
  • High impact & speed: Fast decision-making, short communication lines and real influence on our growth — your contribution counts from day one.
  • Unique opportunity: Completely rethink finance with AI and automation. Shape how modern finance looks in a fast-growing SaaS company.
  • Hypergrowth environment: Experience how a healthily scaling company grows — with real numbers, real decisions and real impact.
  • Fast track for your career: Ownership from day one, direct access to the founders and a network that opens many doors — whether you want to found a company later, grow within finance or move into VC.
  • Team & perks: High-performance team, regular team events, offsites and office parties, plus benefits like Wellhub and a Deutschlandticket.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial planningbudgetingforecastingKPI monitoringcash flow monitoringliquidity monitoringreportingdata analysisprocess automationfinance tools
Soft Skills
collaborationteam-player mentalityenthusiasm for process improvementcommunicationstrategic decision-makingrelationship management
Certifications
master’s degree in business administrationmaster’s degree in financemaster’s degree in controllingmaster’s degree in business informatics