Business Operations & Finance Lead (all genders)

Lime Connect (formerly Userlike); Köln; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health budget

Urban Sports Club

Learning budget

Udemy/Masterclass access

Leadership programs

Team events

Office in Cologne

Job summary

Lime Connect is expanding with a new role that blends finance, business controlling and revenue operations. You will partner with Sales, Marketing, Product and Engineering to analyze profitability, build business cases for new initiatives and pricing, and own the budget as the single source of truth.

You will present insights to Lime's management and the Advisory Board and drive strategic projects from idea to execution.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in strategy or management consulting, finance or revenue operations.
• Owns budgets, margins and cost structures end-to-end with a single source of truth.
• Familiar with SaaS models and recurring revenue/cost structures.
• Builds models from scratch in Excel or Google Sheets and communicates results clearly.
• Fluent German and English.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Product and Engineering to assess product profitability and build cases for new initiatives.
• Own the budget and ensure a single source of truth for all numbers.
• Provide data-driven analyses to help teams make informed decisions.
• Act as a thought partner to the CEO and present numbers to Lime's management and Advisory Board.
• Drive strategic projects from ideation to execution.

Skills

Strategy consulting

Finance

Revenue operations

Data-driven decisions

German and English fluency

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

What You'll Be Working On

Lime Connect is growing, and we want to grow profitably. So we're creating a new role that brings together finance, business controlling and revenue operations:

• You partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Product and Engineering, bringing an entrepreneurial mindset to every discussion. Through sharp financial analysis and business modelling, you assess the profitability of our current products and build the case for new products, initiatives and pricing.
• You own the budget and make sure there's a single source of truth for all our numbers.
• Your analyses help every team make data-driven decisions.
• As a thought partner to the CEO, you're close to the big decisions and present our numbers to Lime's management and the Advisory Board together with him.
• You drive strategic projects that move the company forward, from first idea to execution.

What Makes You a Fit

• You have at least five years of experience in strategy or management consulting, finance or revenue operations and know how to structure complex questions quickly.
• You don't just own budgets, margins and cost structures E2E through providing a single source of truth, analysis and deriving potential actions.
• You're familiar with SaaS models and know how recurring revenue and usage-based costs fit together.
• You build models from scratch in Excel or Google Sheets and explain the results in a way that sales, product and management can work with.
• You're hands-on and excited to build something that doesn't exist at Lime Connect yet.
• You speak fluent German and English.

What’s In It For You

HEALTH & SPORTS

• 600 € health budget per year, including 24/7 medical advice — also for family members in your household
• Subsidised Urban Sports Club membership (20 € monthly contribution)

DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH

• Learning budget for courses, books and conferences
• Free access to Udemy, Masterclass and language learning apps
• Leadership programmes such as "Next Gen" and "Effective Manager"

TEAM & CULTURE

• Weekly FIKA, movie nights, book club and regular get-togethers and team events
• International summer party together with our colleagues in the Nordics

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Office-first setup: 3 days in our Cologne office at the MediaPark, 2 days remote
• 360° view across Cologne from the 14th floor
• Workation within the EU
• Snacks, cereal bar and drinks in the office

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Company pension scheme via Zurich with a 30 % employer contribution
• Job ticket or mobility budget, plus free parking at the MediaPark
• Corporate benefits
• 28 days of holiday, plus Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off
• Up to 5 days of special leave for important life events

About Us

Automated where it makes sense. Personal where it counts.

We are Lime Connect – an AI-first company and one of the top software scale-ups in Cologne. AI isn't an add-on for us, it's the core of what we build: our leading customer messaging solution for customer service, sales, and marketing combines AI agents, web chat, and mobile messaging, already automating the majority of all customer inquiries today. As part of Lime Technologies, our Swedish parent company, we combine international perspectives with the drive of a company actively shaping its next stage of growth. With us, you help shape things, not just execute them – with real ownership from day one, in a dynamic environment, and a culture that values results just as much as people. Weekly fika included.