As a Legal, Commercial and Finance Lead, you will be responsible for building and maintaining Orbint’s contractual, commercial, financial, and documentation backbone. You will support customer, supplier, research, and partner relationships by preparing, reviewing, coordinating, and tracking contracts, NDAs, purchase orders, subcontractor agreements, invoices, budgets, funding documents, and commercial project records.

Your role is central to turning complex legal, commercial, and financial information into a structured, traceable, and decision-ready operating system for Orbint’s space and defence activities.

About You

We do not expect a perfect match to every bullet point, but you should recognize yourself in most of the profile below.

Core Legal, Commercial & Finance Profile

Background in Business Law, Law, Business Administration, Finance, Tax, Accounting, Controlling, or a comparable field.
Experience in contract administration, legal operations, procurement, accounting, controlling, audit preparation, grant documentation, or commercial project management.
Strong understanding of contracts, obligations, deadlines, payment terms, budgets, invoices, cost documentation, and commercial risks.
Maintain finance trackers for budgets, actual costs, forecasts, liquidity planning, commitments, open invoices, and upcoming payment obligations.
Support management, accounting, tax advisors, and external partners with structured documentation and financial follow-up.
Confident with Word, Excel, structured file systems, financial trackers, and ideally accounting, contract, or project management tools.
Ability to identify and elevate legal, commercial, tax, IP, confidentiality, liability, procurement, compliance, and financial risks.

Space / Defence / Technology Domain

Prior experience or interest in space, aerospace, defence, security, research, engineering, or high-technology environments is a strong plus but not necessary.

General

Structured, analytical working style with strong ownership and very high reliability.
Ability to bring order into complex, incomplete, or fast-moving documentation.
Strong communication skills: you can coordinate clearly with management, engineers, suppliers, customers, accountants, lawyers, and public project partners.
High attention to detail and a strong sense for confidentiality, deadlines, and documentation quality.
Very good command of English and German, spoken and written.
Eligibility for security clearance.

Why Orbint

At Orbint, you will be joining an ambitious team where your work directly supports a new space-based SIGINT capability for European defence and security. You will help build the contractual, commercial, and financial foundation that allows our engineering teams to develop advanced RF payloads, satellites, onboard software, and ground systems for real operational users.

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