About the Role
This highly hands-on role focuses on accelerating Almedia’s growth by leading high-impact strategic transactions and broader finance initiatives. It sits at the intersection of M&A execution, strategic finance, and capital raising support. The role involves assessing build-vs-buy opportunities, running transaction processes, evaluating financial impact, and supporting external financing discussions with rigorous analysis and clear communication. You will be a key partner in shaping Almedia's approach to acquisitions, financing, and strategic growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic transaction work from initial assessment through execution support, including opportunity evaluation, financial analysis, deal structuring, and internal recommendations.
- Support capital raising and external finance workstreams by preparing materials and analysis for equity and debt investor conversations.
- Develop and maintain high-quality financial models, valuation frameworks, scenario analyses, and benchmarking for strategic finance decisions.
- Create structured, repeatable approaches for diligence, valuation, and transaction execution.
- Partner cross-functionally with leadership and stakeholders to assess strategic opportunities and connect financial analysis to company priorities.
- Operate as a hands-on owner, working directly in details, building materials, and independently advancing complex workstreams.
Requirements
- Strong foundation in M&A, corporate finance, transaction execution, and valuation.
- Experience in private equity, investment banking, or similar high-performance finance environments with exposure to transactions and capital markets.
- Comfortable building robust financial models and independently pressure-testing assumptions.
- Commercial and strategic judgment to connect financial analysis to business reality and company strategy.
- Clear communication to distill complex financial topics into actionable recommendations for stakeholders and investors.
- High ownership, proactive, practical, and detail-oriented execution drive.
- Thrives in a hands-on strategic finance role.
- Excited by the combination of M&A, capital raising support, and broad strategic projects.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth company and collaborating with senior stakeholders.
- Possesses technical depth in finance with adaptability and an ownership mindset for a startup environment.
- Desire to build finance and transaction capabilities.
Skills
- M&A
- Corporate finance
- Transaction execution
- Valuation
- Financial modeling
- Analytical rigor
- Commercial judgment
- Strategic judgment
- Clear communication
- High ownership
- Execution drive
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Benefits
- Equity in Almedia for Berlin-based employees
- Growth opportunities with a profitable startup
- Central Berlin office
- Transport subsidy
- Breakfasts and lunches
- Language learning
- Urban Sports Club
About the Company
- Almedia aims to be Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn.
- Recognized as Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).
- Building the future of marketing by rewarding a community of over 70 million users for engaging with advertisers.
- Offers a new way to acquire users for global companies.
- Fosters an environment for accelerated careers and high intensity.
- Values ambitious, high-speed, high-ownership individuals.
- Operates 5 days a week in the office to build energizing momentum.
- Profitable from day one.
Equal Opportunity
- Almedia is an equal opportunity employer.
- Embraces and celebrates diversity.
- Encourages individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
