About the Role
As a Finance Manager, you will be part of a small, skilled Finance Department. You will be enthusiastic about numbers, processes, and projects, helping to build new analysis structures. Your curiosity will drive you to answer all questions, and you will bring new, creative ideas to elevate planning and analysis. You enjoy networking and keeping an eye on organizational developments to ensure smooth navigation.
Responsibilities
- Prepare monthly financial statements, build reports, and provide actionable recommendations for your business units.
- Review and document customer conditions, collaborating closely with HQ.
- Evaluate business cases and pricing strategies for new products and ideas, identifying customer potential with the Key Account Management team.
- Serve as the point of contact for financial transparency and measure evaluation.
- Analyze sales, margin, and price developments at customer and product levels, identifying key drivers.
- Manage the creation of Latest Estimates and Budgets.
- Oversee forecast and budget processes for sales, critically questioning assumptions and identifying risks and opportunities in sales development.
- Conduct individual item calculations and discuss strategic portfolio development.
- Connect detailed analyses (e.g., product calculations) with strategic questions regarding portfolio, growth, and profitability, deriving appropriate measures.
- Ensure cost centers are logical and invoices are accurate.
- Liaise with accounting, sales, and customers, maintaining oversight of payment status.
- Act as a contact for tax consulting firms, coordinating with your lead, HQ, and the DACH organization.
- Manage tasks such as car leasing and travel & expenses, or propose new initiatives.
- Assist with new tasks including reporting, processes, and tenders.
- Support various projects, from service tenders to new reporting structures.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Financial Planning.
- Experience in project management.
- Proficiency in Excel.
- Experience with Dynamics 365 or similar ERP systems.
- Ability to maintain an overview of complex topics and parallel processes, demonstrating flexibility when plans change.
- Skill in preparing complex financial contexts for different target audiences and deriving clear recommendations.
- Solution-oriented, assertive, and persistent with a positive outlook.
- Team player with high motivation to contribute to a better world.
- Fluent in German and proficient in English.
Skills
- Financial Planning
- Project Management
- Excel
- ERP Systems (e.g., Dynamics 365)
- Financial Analysis
- Reporting
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Cost Controlling
- Business Case Evaluation
- Pricing Strategies
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
Location
- Berlin
- Wien
Work Type
- Remote
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Minimum 5 years
Benefits
- Sport support
- Public transport or train travel support
- 10 private sessions per year with nilo.health for personal discussions
- Access to various roundtables on mental health topics
- Opportunity to contribute to the plant-based movement and a sustainable world
About the Company
- A company built on the idea of change.
- Pioneers of the Post Milk Generation, inventing modern oat milk in the 90s.
- Oat is the favorite plant-based grain, with their Barista Edition leading the market.
- Operations are managed from their Berlin headquarters, covering the DACH region and Poland.
- The team consists of various departments working together to drive the plant-based movement.
- The company aims to encourage more people towards planet-friendly nutrition without dairy.
Equal Opportunity
- We look forward to getting to know you, regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic or social origin, religion, disability, age, and sexual orientation!
