Finance Associate (f/m/d) - Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region

How will you make an impact?

As our Finance Manager, you will be part of the Finance team and report directly to the VP Finance & Legal. You will become an integral part of our financial planning and analysis, month-end closing, and annual and quarterly budgeting process, and interact closely with various department heads on matters ranging from ad-hoc analysis to business function KPIs. You will be expected to proactively and continuously develop process improvements. The Finance team is responsible for the company’s financial affairs and legal matters.

Some of your tasks and responsibilities include:

• Act as a bridge between finance controlling and FP&A activities.

• Responsible for monthly closes, compliance, forecasting, budgeting, and business partnering.

• Create and prepare monthly management and investor reporting (including target/actual comparisons, variance analysis, and commentary), support the preparation of materials for board or management meetings, and similar occasions.

• Work closely with the accounting team during month-end closing, ensuring the accuracy of financials.

• Develop and improve financial models used for FP&A.

• Prepare and execute budget and business planning for the various planning cycles, focusing on optimising short- and long-term cash and liquidity forecasting.

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders and collaborate with other business functions to lead deep dives on KPIs / P&L items.

• Perform ad-hoc business and financial analysis to support recommendations to senior management.

• Work closely with the BI department to map the financial data and analyses in a BI system. You will be responsible for developing new finance dashboards.

• Manage and support digital transformation projects aiming at automating and optimising processes.

• Support with audits of financial statements.

Our expectations of you

• University degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field

• 3+ years of experience in a Financial Controlling or FP&A role, ideally in a SaaS company

• Experience with implementing, running, and improving/automating financial budgeting, reporting, and controlling processes.

• Strong financial modeling skills with good accounting knowledge.

• Strong language skills in written and spoken German and English.

• Experience working in a scale-up or a fast-paced environment

• Ability to learn quickly and work independently in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent MS Office skills, especially Excel and Google Sheets.

• Experience with DATEV or similar accounting software

• Remote work is possible, but it would be required to work in Berlin at least three times per week.

• Desirable: Knowledge of German GAAP/HGB

The Process

• Intro call with someone from the People Team

• Structured competency-based Interview with the VP Finance & Legal

• Case Study Presentation.

• Team Fit call and reference Check

• Job Offer.

The response time after application, screening applications, and setting up the first intro call is usually within 1-2 weeks. You could expect some alterations when necessary.

About us

Hygraph is a dynamic Berlin-based startup that, in its recent round, raised $35M in funding. Driven by our core values of innovation, reliability, empowerment, agility, and scalability, Hygraph empowers thousands of developers and content teams to create dynamic digital experiences that engage their customers effortlessly. At Hygrap,h we're building a Headless Content Management system (CMS) that provides a flexible and scalable platform for managing and delivering content across various platforms seamlessly. We are trusted to manage content for teams from over 50,000 organizations like Dr. Oetker, Shure, Samsung, Ashley Furniture, Telenor, Philips, and Gamescom. 

You will be part of a remote-first and globally distributed team who are committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately. We are an international and friendly team spread across 20 countries. We believe in a remote-first approach where everyone is encouraged to do their best from wherever they are and work together with transparency, accountability, and ownership. We learn continuously through feedback and have a yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences.

Hygraph is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring people with diverse backgrounds. We believe that diversity, unique experiences, qualities, and different cultures enrich our workspace's productivity and promote innovation and creativity.