About the Role
Support reliable operation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of finance-related IT applications. Act as a central point of contact between Finance, IT, and external service providers to ensure smooth financial system operation, supporting business processes and compliance requirements. This position is ideal for experienced professionals who enjoy hands-on application support, system administration, and collaboration with finance stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Support and manage finance-related IT applications in daily operations (e.g., ERP, reporting, spend management systems)
- Ensure stable and reliable system performance, availability, and data integrity
- Administer, maintain, and optimize applications for efficient and user-friendly processes
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve system incidents and user issues, providing first-level support
- Act as a key contact for Finance stakeholders, ensuring smooth communication and quick resolution of requests
- Support integrations and collaborate with IT teams to maintain functional system connectivity
- Coordinate with external vendors and service providers for issue resolution, updates, and improvements
- Implement and monitor system updates, configurations, and patches
- Contribute to maintaining compliance with financial and IT security standards
- Support ongoing improvements and small enhancements of finance applications and processes
- Guide and train end users for confident and effective system usage
Requirements
- Degree in Business Administration, Business Informatics, IT, or a comparable field
- 5+ years of experience in IT application management or application support, ideally in a finance-related environment
- Strong understanding of finance processes (e.g., accounting, controlling, reporting)
- Hands-on experience with finance tools such as Kendox, Yokoy, TravelPerk, or LucaNet is a plus
- Solid understanding of IT service management principles (e.g., ITIL) and support processes
- Experience working with external vendors and service providers
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Structured, reliable, and hands-on working style
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work at the interface between business and IT
- Fluent in English
- Fluent in German
Skills
- Finance processes (accounting, controlling, reporting)
- Finance tools (Kendox, Yokoy, TravelPerk, LucaNet)
- IT service management principles (ITIL)
- Support processes
- Problem-solving
- Structured working style
- Reliable working style
- Hands-on working style
- Communication
- Interfacing between business and IT
- English language proficiency
- German language proficiency
Location
- Cologne (hybrid)
- Berlin (remote)
Work Type
- Permanent Contract
- Full-time
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
- Experienced professional
Education Level
- Degree in Business Administration
- Degree in Business Informatics
- Degree in IT
- Comparable field
Benefits
- Hybrid work combining flexible remote work with team time in the office
- Workation: Temporarily work from a destination of choice within the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, or Norway
- Permanent contract with Europe's trusted brand
- 28 vacation days
- 2.5 additional days off at Christmas, New Year's Eve, and Carnival
- Buddy programme with an experienced trustee
- Individual training opportunities
- Events (Team Events, Unit Events, etc.)
- Health Pass (free online and offline sports, fitness, and health courses)
About the Company
- Trusted Shops develops SaaS solutions for over 40 million users and 30,000 businesses across Europe.
- Product suite includes Trustmark, Buyer Protection, and the eTrusted experience feedback platform.
- For more than 25 years, our mission has been to enable trust between people and businesses in the digital age.
Equal Opportunity
- Trusted Shops is interested in you as a person, independent of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, and identity.
- Trusted Shops is clearly committed to diversity and against discrimination.
