Senior Finance Manager (gn) - Farmfin GmbH

Farmfin GmbH; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading agrifintech company in Berlin is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to oversee the entire finance stack, including accounting, FP&A, and finance operations. Successful candidates will have 6-10 years of fintech experience and will manage all aspects of financial reporting and compliance. The role involves cross-functional collaboration, implementing financial technology, and ensuring tax compliance. This is an on-site position that promises an exciting opportunity to shape the future of agriculture in Europe.

Qualifikationen

• 6‑10+ years of experience in fintech with hands-on finance roles.
• Solid grounding in German accounting standards.
• Proficient in creating driver-based financial models.
• Experience in building operational processes.
• Comfortable with cash forecasting.
• Proficient in modern finance software.
• Strong capability in managing data flows.
• Proactive with a strong sense of ownership.
• Clear and concise in communication.

Aufgaben

• Run a 5-day close and ensure accurate management accounts.
• Manage day-to-day bookkeeping and ensure compliance.
• Oversee payroll accounting and coordinate with external providers.
• Build operational finance processes to optimize working capital.
• Own the operating model and conduct financial analysis.
• Partner cross-functionally with founders and other teams.
• Select and implement finance technology solutions.
• Ensure tax compliance and support statutory filings.

Kenntnisse

Experience in high-growth fintech

Accounting concepts

Expert in driver-based financial models

Proven experience in finance operations

Strong SQL and Excel skills

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Datev or similar GL

Looker / Metabase

Jobbeschreibung

As our Senior Finance Manager, you'll own the full finance stack - accounting, FP&A, and finance operations - turning raw data into fast, accurate decisions. You'll partner cross-functionally with Product, Ops, Commercial and Growth and report to the Managing Director / Co-Founder.

Activities

Key Responsibilities

• Finance : Run a 5-day close, maintain policies / controls, coordinate audits / taxes, and deliver accurate management accounts.
• Accounting : Manage day‑to‑day bookkeeping and coordinate our Steuerberater for our group companies; ensure accurate accruals, deferrals, revenue recognition, and fixed‑asset tracking; consolidate our group accounts.
• Payroll Accounting : Oversee payroll inputs, benefits accounting, and equity accounting (incl. EIP / VSOP), working with external providers.
• Finance operations & treasury : Build O2C / P2P, automate bank / GL / billing reconciliations (≥95% auto‑match), manage cash ladder / runway, and optimize working capital; implement disciplined AP / AR processes (invoice flow, approvals, three‑way match, dunning) and ensure timely collections.
• FP&A & decision support : Own the operating model and rolling forecast, run scenarios, track unit economics / KPIs, cash flows / runway and deliver investor‑grade board packs (±5‑10% accuracy).
• Cross‑functional partnering : Work with Founders, Product, Ops, and Data to turn numbers into decisions on pricing, hiring, and growth; drive root‑cause fixes.
• Tooling & scaling : Select / implement the finance stack (GL, billing, spend, BI), set cadences and SLAs, and build toward a small high‑performing finance team.
• Ensure tax compliance : (VAT, Körperschaftsteuer, Lohnsteuer) and support statutory filings and audits.

Job Requirements

• Experience : 6‑10+ years across high‑growth fintech / tech (seed‑Series B) with hands‑on ownership of close, FP&A, and payments / treasury. Prior experience as first / early finance hire or small‑team lead strongly preferred.
• Accounting : Solid grounding in HGB; practical IFRS exposure. Comfortable setting policies, leading audits, and working with a Steuerberater.
• FP&A : Expert in fintech related driver‑based models, unit economics, cohort analysis, and scenario planning; can connect model outputs to real decisions.
• Finance Operations : Proven track record building O2C / P2P processes, billing / revenue ops, collections / dunning, vendor management, and bank / GL reconciliations with SLA discipline.
• Treasury & Cash : Comfortable with multi‑account structures, cash forecasting, working‑capital levers; can design pragmatic controls for a lean team.
• Tooling : Proficient with modern finance stacks (e.g., Datev or similar GL; Moss; G‑Suite / Excel / Sheets; a BI layer like Looker / Metabase).
• Data Fluency : Strong SQL / Sheets / Excel; can build reliable data flows and QA numbers across systems.
• Ownership & Pace : Bias to action, operational rigor, and comfort operating with ambiguity in a
• Communication : Clear writer and presenter; able to distill complexity into crisp narratives for founders, team, and investors.
• Location : Based in Berlin or willing to work Berlin‑centric hours; comfortable with on‑site collaboration in our HQ.

Team

We're a group of experienced founders and operators united by the ambition to build a generational company. With high skill density and a deliberate focus on staying lean, we create a high‑performance environment where every team member truly moves the needle.

Application Process

• Interview with Founder : Personal Fit, Motivation, Alignment on Ambition
• Deep Dive on the Job
• Case Study
• Meeting 2 other co‑founders
• Reference Check
• Offer

About the Company

We're pioneering the future of agrifintech in Europe. We're on a mission to build a category‑defining leader in one of the most crucial industries on the continent: Agriculture. As the backbone of Europe's food supply, agriculture is central to our sovereignty and future sustainability - and we're here to shape its evolution.

Backed by leading venture capital firms with over €10 million in seed funding, we are a high‑impact and output‑driven team - a group of founder‑operators who have been at the forefront of scaling some of Europe's most successful fintechs and agritechs. With deep industry expertise and a track record of success, our team is relentlessly driving toward bold, ambitious goals.

We're rapidly gaining momentum with the first products already loved by customers. The demand for our solutions is growing at an extraordinary pace, and our primary challenge right now is scaling to meet this incredible interest. Despite significant traction and strong backing, we are still operating in stealth mode, carefully building a category‑defining leader in agrifintech. With our sights set on becoming the dominant player in this space, we are poised to seize the largest fintech opportunity in Europe's agriculture market - one that will define the future of the industry.