Business Controller (all genders) — with a path to Finance Lead

Your first 12 months — operational and hands-on:

• You work closely with our Accounting Manager on monthly, quarterly, and annual close: account reconciliation and clean-up in DATEV, AR/AP reconciliation, accruals and provisions.
• You own liquidity planning: rolling cash forecast, weekly cash update, payment runs, and receivables management.
• You produce monthly reporting: actual vs. plan, variance analysis, commentary, and the C-level view.
• You support budget planning and the in-year forecast cycles: gathering inputs, consolidating them, and pressure-testing the assumptions that come out of the business.
• You prepare KPIs and materials for reporting to shareholders and our advisory board.
• You bring structure to public funding and compliance topics: grant reporting, deadlines, evidence, documentation.
• You act as a sparring partner for Sales and Customer Delivery on deal economics, contribution margins, and pricing questions.
• You build processes and controls that don't exist yet — and document them so they work without you.

After that — when you and we are ready:

• You gradually take ownership of the forecast and the planning model.
• You lead the finance team (Accounting Manager, Accounting Assistant, and further roles over time).
• You evolve the finance function from reporting to steering: governance, approval processes, forecast accuracy.
• You become the standing counterpart for shareholders, tax advisors, and auditors.

• 4 - 6 years in controlling, accounting, corporate finance, transaction services, or a finance role at a growing software company.
• You've worked with DATEV and can navigate a German chart of accounts without a chaperone. A solid grasp of HGB accounting is assumed.
• Liquidity planning isn't a theoretical concept to you — you've owned a cash forecast whose accuracy someone cared about.
• You are comfortable with financial models: you read them, stress-test them, and find the spot where an assumption stops holding.
• You know SaaS metrics such as ARR, NRR, CAC, and churn not as vocabulary but as a system where each one drives the others.
• You communicate numbers so that non-finance people can make a decision — in writing and in the room.
• You work independently in an environment where not every process exists yet. Some you will build before you can use them.
• You want to lead a team eventually — and you're honest enough with yourself to know you're not there yet.
• Fluent German and English.
• Nice to have:
  Experience in travel tech, or B2B SaaS with enterprise customers. Exposure to audit, due diligence, or public funding programmes.

What we offer

• Work with real AI technology at international level — not as a pilot project, but as our business model.
• Genuine room to shape things. Your ideas do not land in a suggestion box; they land in the next iteration.
• A short path to the management team. Decisions take days, not committee rounds.
• Growth you are part of. We are building the company’s next chapter — with roles, responsibility and prospects that did not exist a year ago.
• Leipzig as your primary base, with regular time in the office and flexible remote work. Hybrid models are everyday practice here, not the exception.
• Permanent contract, full-time.
• Performance bonuses for demonstrable results.
• Multi-day team events in places that are actually fun.

Our hiring process

1. Intro interview — we get to know each other, and you learn where we stand and where we are heading.
2. Case study or technical study, depending on the role — a real problem from our day-to-day that we work through together.
3. Interview with your future manager and, depending on the position, with our founders.