Finance Manager

Finance Manager for Fast Growing Global SaaS Business

Reporting to: Chief Financial Officer
Location: Germany (Berlin, hybrid/ remote possible)
Position: Permanent
Language: Fluent in German and English

About us

Founded in 2012, Cumulocity is a global leading industrial IoT platform offering device management and low-code application enablement. Our cloud-native platform serves over 200 customers in 20+ countries with 300 employees across 23 countries worldwide. As an investor-backed Management Buy-Out, we're on a high-growth trajectory and building an agile, high-performance organization as a newly independent company.

Role overview

We are seeking a transformative & result-driven individual to drive our dynamic and evolving finance landscape. This pivotal role requires a master of organizational transformation who can manage and contribute to develop a modern and innovative finance function in a global organisation. You will work on and manage day-to-day finance tasks in addition to support shaping the finance function. This is a newly established and diverse role in finance.

Key responsbilities

Cash management and treasury

• Cash flow management, planning and cash forecasting across the group
• Develop and improve intercompany management and agreements

Planning, budgeting, FPA, modelling, controlling

• Drive budgeting cycles and forecasting
• Run sensitivity scenarios based on different assumptions
• Provide forward looking insights to support strategic decisions
• Revenue and cost controlling, performing gap and variance analyses

Accounting & reporting

• Collaborate with the accounting team, ensure timely and robust bookkeeping, and drive monthly closing process
• Develop further reporting and align with cost centres in the process e.g. sales, R&D, engineering
• Consolidation across group
• Support in annual statements preparation and audit process

Overseeing, driving and collaborating in revenue operations

• Drive processes or improve them with regards to order management, account receivables, collection, dunning; also supporting the implementation of new tools as part of the scaling
• Refine and develop an ARR model, including churn, expansion and KPIs e.g. margins
• Collaborate with other teams such as sales to improve forecasting, pricing, efficiency

Overseeing, driving and collaborating in expenses operations

• Drive processes or improve them with regards to incoming invoices, account payables, payment process; also supporting the implementation of new tools as part of the scaling

Key requirements

• Degree in finance, economics, or a related field; additional qualifications such as MBA, CIMA, CPA preferred but not necessary
• 7+ years of progressive finance experience; ideally a combination of audit or banking experience with an operating finance role
• Software or SaaS experience preferred
• Expertise in SaaS metrics, financial modelling, FP&A, cash flow management
• Proven ability to build-out and develop a finance function, tools and processes leading into a robust and meaningful reporting
• Experience in an international set-up with a multi-entity approach
• Tech savy with advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets; ideally also financial tools (Lucanet, Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, agile mindset and ability to innovate
• Fluent in German and English (both at least C1)

What we offer

• A varied role in a renowned and fast-growing company
• A dynamic work environment and excellent development opportunities
• High level of personal responsibility
• Work with cutting-edge SaaS IoT technology alongside dynamic leadership team
• An authentic, diverese and open corporate culture
• Flat hierarchies

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the financial model and efficiency as we scale further our SaaS business to our customers across the globe.
Join us as we write the next chapter of Cumulocity's story - where people excellence drives business success globally.

Please email a copy of your CV - Bilingual (English and German) to [email protected]
Cumulocity is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and excellence across our global workforce.