VP Finance (f/m/d)

GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft; Heidelberg; Hybrid; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading AI firm in Heidelberg seeks a VP Finance who will craft financial strategies, manage investor relations, and lead a high-performing finance team. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in building finance organizations for scalable growth and is fluent in both German and English. This role offers a range of benefits including 30 days of paid vacation, fitness offerings, and a hybrid working model.

Leistungen

30 days of paid vacation

Access to fitness & wellness offerings

Mental health support

JobRad®Bike Lease

Subsidized transportation ticket

Flexible working hours

Virtual Stock Option Plan

Qualifikationen

• Proven ability to build and lead scalable finance organizations.
• Experience in managing due diligence processes.
• Completed business growth up to Series B/C.

Aufgaben

• Build financial strategies aligned with growth.
• Set up a complete, audit-ready financial infrastructure.
• Ensure due-diligence-ready financial environment.

Kenntnisse

Building financial strategies

Risk management

Leadership in finance teams

Investor relations

Fluent in German and English

Jobbeschreibung

OVERVIEW

At Aleph Alpha, we are shaping the future of AI with European values at the core. The heart of our product is developing cutting‑edge generative AI solutions with a strong emphasis on sovereignty, ethical development, and societal benefit. Our generative AI offering empowers businesses, governments, and individuals to achieve their full potential.

TEAM

As we continue to grow and innovate, strong financial operations are essential to sustaining our momentum. As VP Finance, you will build and run a finance organization that enables the company to scale from late‑stage growth to global operational excellence. You ensure financial stability, support international expansion, enable reliability in planning and reporting, and prepare the company for capital markets and long‑term investor scrutiny. You will act as a trusted partner to the CEO, CRO, COO, and Product leadership by driving clarity, transparency, and accountability across the company.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Finance Leadership:

• You build financial strategies aligned with growth, capital needs, and long‑term competitiveness.
• You anticipate financial risks before they become business issues.
• You build and lead a high‑performing finance team with clear roles, measurable goals, and strong execution standards.

FP&A and Controlling:

• You are responsible for setting up a complete, audit‑ready financial infrastructure (budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, cost control, risk management).
• You ensure a monthly and quarterly reporting cadence that provides the Senior Leadership Team with actionable insights.

Investor relations:

• You ensure a due‑diligence‑ready financial environment at all times.
• You narrate a compelling and defensible financial story for current and future investors.

Internationalization and Global Operating Model:

• You craft cost models for new markets and verticals, supporting GTM decisions with precise financial implications.
• You design and implement processes for inter‑company transactions, transfer pricing, and local statutory requirements.
• You are responsible for a scalable global accounting, tax, payroll, and compliance setup covering current and planned markets.

YOUR PROFILE

• You have a proven ability of building and leading scalable and highly functional finance organizations (teams, systems and processes), ideally in a scale‑up environment.
• You have experience managing complex due diligence processes while keeping internal operations stable.
• You have supported business growth up to Series B/C, with a proven ability to create confidence in investors through transparency, consistency, and mastery of the numbers.
• You ideally bring experience with M&A and global operations.
• You are fluent in both German and English.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US

• Become part of an AI revolution!
• 30 days of paid vacation
• Access to a variety of fitness & wellness offerings via Wellhub
• Mental health support through nilo.health
• JobRad®Bike Lease
• Substantially subsidized company pension plan for your future security
• Subsidized Germany‑wide transportation ticket
• Budget for additional technical equipment
• Flexible working hours for better work‑life balance and hybrid working model
• Virtual Stock Option Plan