Finance Lead (w/d/m)

Userc Dehradun; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free studio membership

Office in Berlin

Coaching from founder

Team events

Job summary

LIFTED, a Berlin-based strength-training company, seeks a finance leader to take over finance operations from the founder and build a scalable finance function. You will manage planning, liquidity, reporting, and financing while shaping location business cases and collaborating with a tax firm.

You will lead a small team, handle HR admin, and drive month-end and year-end closes. Berlin-based, hands-on, and ready to grow with the company.

Qualifications

• Around 4-6 years in finance, including startup or scale-up experience.
• Strong academic background in business, finance or a similar field.
• Experience with month-end closes and working with an external tax firm.
• Experience building or rebuilding a planning model in spreadsheets.
• Sound understanding of account coding.
• Desire to understand how a studio makes money and use numbers to shape decisions.
• Based in Berlin or moving to Berlin and working in the office.
• Hands-on mentality and result-driven approach.

Responsibilities

• Finance ops: lead a finance trainee, review samples, manage payments, payroll, and close processes with our tax firm.
• Planning and liquidity: own planning model, monthly liquidity, annual budget, forecasts and scenarios; build business cases for new locations.
• Reporting: set up monthly management reporting for the management meeting.
• Financing: prepare financing and lead conversations with financing partners.
• HR admin: handle employee data and contracts, currently a few hours monthly.
• Team: build the finance team and decide when HR needs its own role.

Skills

Finance management

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Hands-on mentality

Education

Finance/business degree

Tools

DATEV

Moss

Helu

SKR03

Spreadsheets

Job description

Location Berlin

Job type Permanent employment (unbefris

Posted 17 Oct 2026 (18 hours ago)

Region Europe

Source Arbeitnow

LIFTED is a strength training company from Berlin. We run six studios across the city and plan to have 20 by the end of 2027, with Munich, Hamburg, Cologne and Düsseldorf next. Our goal is to become the largest fitness company in Europe. Before LIFTED, the founding team helped build and scale BEAT81. Today we’re profitable and owner-led.

Why this role exists

Today Carl, one of the founders, runs finance alongside managing the company, with bookkeeping at an external tax firm. You take this over and build out the finance function.

What you own

Finance ops.

You lead our finance trainee, who handles receipts, invoices and account coding based on clear rules. You review samples, resolve new cases and adapt the rules. You also manage payments, payroll and the month-end and year-end close with our tax firm.

Planning and liquidity.

You own our planning model, plan liquidity monthly, and run the annual budget, forecasts and scenarios. Before we sign a new location, you build its business case and add it to the planning model.

Reporting.

You set up monthly management reporting that we use in the management meeting.

Financing.

You prepare our financing and, over time, lead parts of the conversations with our financing partners.

HR admin.

You handle employee data and contracts. Right now that’s a few hours a month.

Team.

You build the finance team and help us decide when HR needs its own role.

How we measure success

After 3 months, you’ve taken over finance from Carl, from daily operations and HR admin to planning and liquidity.

After 6 months, management reporting runs every month. You’ve built the business cases for the locations we signed in that time and prepared your first financing.

After 12 months, you run the annual budget, align it with the team leads and review it with us every quarter. You prepare our financing end to end and lead parts of the conversations with our financing partners yourself.

What you bring

You might have done most of this before, or you’re ready to grow into it.

Around 4-6 years in finance, including experience at a startup or scale-up

A strong academic background in business, finance or a similar field

Experience with month-end closes and working with an external tax firm

Experience building or fundamentally rebuilding a planning model in spreadsheets

Sound understanding of account coding

You want to understand how a studio makes money and use the numbers to shape decisions with us

You live in Berlin or are moving here, and work with us in the office

Hands-on with getting-things-done mentality

Nice to have:

• Experience in a fast-growing business with multiple locations
• Experience preparing financing, for example bank or development loans
• Experience with SKR03, DATEV, Moss, Helu or similar tools
• First leadership experience

What we offer

• The chance to build our finance team
• You work directly with Carl, who coaches you on the business side, from location decisions to financing
• A spacious and bright office at Senefelder Platz, between Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg
• Free, unlimited membership at all LIFTED studios
• Team events like padel and BBQs

Start

As soon as possible

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