CFO Assistant

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CFO Assistant at Heraeus providing executive-level support and managing stakeholder communications. Ensuring smooth operations and strategic project assistance for the CFO.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeHanau • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Proactive and forward-looking support for the CFO in day-to-day operations, active management of the CFO’s email inbox, and assistance with strategic finance and corporate projects.
Ensuring seamless preparation and follow-up for meetings, including pre-reads, drafting minutes, and tracking action items.
Acting as a professional interface and first point of contact for internal and external top stakeholders (Supervisory Board, banks, auditors, and the worldwide managing directors of Heraeus OpCos).
Coordinating and prioritizing appointments, meetings and documentation for the CFO, ensuring an uninterrupted flow of information.
Confidently managing a highly dynamic, global agenda while taking priorities into account, including detailed travel planning and expense reconciliation.
Preparing high-quality, confidential correspondence in German and English.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Completed degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) or a comparable, high-caliber commercial qualification.
Several years of solid professional experience supporting C-level executives (Board/CEO), ideally in an international corporate environment, a strategy consultancy, or investment banking.
Mastery of the MS Office suite, basic understanding of SAP and modern digital collaboration tools, and the curiosity and willingness to further develop the role with respect to the use of AI.
Strong analytical skills to quickly grasp complex financial and operational-finance relationships, prepare and organize information, produce decision papers, and present KPIs in a structured manner.
Business-fluent German and English, both written and spoken, with confident communication toward internal and external stakeholders and partners.
Excellent organizational skills with a structured and proactive way of working.
Absolute discretion and diplomatic assertiveness, combined with a strong hands-on mentality.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Attractive compensation – competitive base salary according to the collective agreement for the chemical industry, annual one-off payments (holiday bonus, Christmas bonus, "future contribution"), phased retirement options, and extension of statutory long-term care insurance via supplementary care coverage.
Financial additional benefits – support for private retirement provisions, a life-phase account for paid leave (e.g., sabbatical, early retirement), subsidized public transport, and discounts in many (online) shops.
Regulated working hours – 37.5 hours per week (full-time), compensatory time off for overtime, phased retirement options, 30 days of annual leave, and special leave for significant life events.
Health & well-being – company medical service with comprehensive preventive check-ups, sports offerings, social counseling, and an on-site staff canteen with freshly prepared meals daily.
Impact – a key position with direct involvement in the global strategic decisions of a multi-billion-euro corporation.
Culture – the stability, value orientation and long-term perspective of one of Germany’s largest family-owned companies, combined with international dynamism.
Development – continuous training opportunities and the chance to actively and continuously expand your area of responsibility.

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Hard Skills & Tools

degreefinancial analysisKPI presentationdocument preparationexpense reconciliationtravel planningstrategic financecorporate projectsemail managementmeeting coordination

Soft Skills

proactiveorganizational skillsanalytical skillscommunicationdiscretiondiplomatic assertivenesshands-on mentalitycuriositystructured workingstakeholder management

Certifications

Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreecommercial qualification