Financial Controller — Build In-House Finance & Automation

Cradlebio; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity stake

Benefits and career progression

Job summary

Cradle in Amsterdam is seeking a Financial Controller to bring the group’s accounting in-house and build the close, the controls, and automation that keep a small finance team from becoming a large one.

You’ll own the numbers across the group, deliver timely reporting across entities and currencies, and support budgeting, cash analysis, and future funding rounds. Office presence is required three days a week.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in accounting or controlling, ideally mixing audit or accounting firm experience with time in-house at a startup or scaleup.
• You've owned a month-end close end to end.
• A track record of building or improving processes in fast-changing startup environments. You're quick to spot something sub-optimal, design a fix, and see it through.
• Hands-on experience with a traditional ERP or comparable modern finance stack, and confident picking up and optimising new tools.
• Comfort connecting the dots across different operational domains (Finance, People, Legal). You understand how a change in one area ripples into others.
• Familiarity with Dutch, Swiss, and/or US statutory reporting and local filing requirements
• You prioritise well under a lot of moving parts
• A versatile communicator who can document a process clearly enough that someone else can follow it
• Ability to be in the office at least 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Bring accounting in-house: Take full ownership of the group's accounting from our external partners, and shape how it runs from the ground up.
• Design the core financial processes: Build procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and record-to-report end to end, with controls that hold up as the company scales.
• Automate what shouldn't be manual: Get everything possible out of our finance tools ( Ramp and Campfire ), and keep asking which recurring task shouldn't need a human next quarter.
• Own the numbers across the group: Deliver accurate, timely reporting across multiple entities, currencies, and reporting frameworks.
• Get us audit-ready: Establish the documentation and control trail that makes external review a formality rather than a scramble.
• Support the full finance scope: Work alongside the Ops team on budgeting and forecasting, cash analysis, group tax structuring, and supporting future funding rounds.

Skills

Month-end close

ERP systems

Process improvement

Cross-functional collaboration

Statutory reporting

Prioritisation

Communication

Office presence

Tools

Ramp

Campfire

HubSpot

Job description

Cradle in Amsterdam is seeking a Financial Controller to bring the group’s accounting in-house and build the close, the controls, and automation that keep a small finance team from becoming a large one.

You’ll own the numbers across the group, deliver timely reporting across entities and currencies, and support budgeting, cash analysis, and future funding rounds. Office presence is required three days a week.