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About the Role
User Rights is Europe's first out-of-court dispute resolution body specializing in social media, established under the EU's Digital Services Act. We handle over a thousand complaints monthly against platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok regarding content moderation decisions. We operate as a self-funded, regulated institution, growing rapidly and now seeking to build a dedicated finance function to manage planning, controlling, closing, payroll, invoicing, and regulatory financial frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Build financial plan, monthly reporting, and a cost/capacity model linking case volume, headcount, and revenue.
- Establish monthly closing and payroll processes, manage interfaces with tax advisors and payroll providers, and maintain auditable books up to annual closing under HGB.
- Manage invoicing to platforms and systematic follow-up of outstanding receivables.
- Document the cost basis to withstand audits and platform objections, developing plans within the cost-recovery principle.
- Establish financial and tax structures for European expansion, including transfer pricing and cross-border VAT treatment.
- Manage liquidity and payment transactions, build internal controls (payment approvals, four-eyes principle, insurance), and manage public funding programs and grants.
Requirements
- Seeking the opportunity to build a function from scratch in a fast-growing company, with the necessary responsibility and commitment.
- Several years of responsibility in a senior finance or controlling role.
- Experience building or significantly expanding a finance function and bringing tasks in-house from external advisors.
- Proficiency in DATEV and modern tooling, automation, and AI; reporting generated from systems, not Excel.
- Precise work and documentation that withstands audits.
- Clear and audience-appropriate communication with the team, management, tax advisors, regulators, and platforms.
- Structured and calm under pressure with multiple competing priorities.
- Very good German (negotiation level) and excellent English.
- Advantageous: Experience in a regulated environment, with fee or non-profit law, or cost accounting with proof requirements.
- Advantageous: Experience with international structures, transfer pricing, or cross-border VAT.
Skills
- Finance Planning
- Controlling
- Cost Accounting
- Capacity Modeling
- Bookkeeping
- Closing
- Payroll
- Invoicing
- Receivables Management
- Regulatory Financial Frameworks
- Transfer Pricing
- Cross-border VAT
- Liquidity Management
- Internal Controls
- Grant Management
- DATEV
- Automation
- AI
- System-based Reporting
Location
- Berlin-Kreuzberg
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- €65,000 to €100,000 gross/year
Benefits
- Opportunity to build a function from the ground up with potential for CFO role.
- Direct collaboration with management.
- Dedicated mini-job position for daily accounting tasks.
- Membership in an excellent, interdisciplinary team.
- Flexible working hours.
- 30 days of vacation (5-day week).
- Urban Sports Club membership (after probation).
About the Company
- User Rights is Europe's first out-of-court dispute resolution body specializing in social media, established under the EU's Digital Services Act.
- We handle over a thousand complaints monthly against platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok regarding content moderation decisions.
- We operate as a self-funded, regulated institution, growing rapidly from two to 35 employees in two years, and expecting over 50 by year-end.
- We are an expanding European institution with a regulatory requirement that our fees do not exceed actual costs, making cost accounting a part of our certification.
Equal Opportunity
- We value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds and life paths, even if your journey doesn't fit the standard profile.
- We hire people of all ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, religions, ages, disabilities, and marital statuses.