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About the Role
As Head of Finance, you will act as a strategic partner to the CFO and executive team, translating the finance strategy into scalable structures and robust planning models. You will combine strategic foresight with execution skills to develop financial models, evaluate business opportunities, and make financial implications transparent to management.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement L1VE’s finance architecture for Germany and Europe, focusing on growth, profitability, transparency, and international scalability.
- Own integrated financial planning, budgeting, business cases, financial models, forecasts, and scenarios.
- Build and further develop relevant KPI systems for Technology, Commercial, Product, Marketing, and Sales.
- Evaluate business models, investments, partnerships, licensing models, and growth options, including their financial opportunities, risks, and implications.
- Support financing rounds, investor readiness, due diligence, and strategic transactions in coordination with the CFO.
- Manage and further develop management, investor, and partner reporting based on reliable and auditable data and processes.
- Coordinate interfaces with Finance Administration, Accounting, Tax, Audit, Legal, and external finance partners.
- Further develop finance, reporting, and governance structures, as well as supporting systems and processes.
Requirements
- At least seven years of relevant professional experience in finance, including several years in a strategically responsible finance role.
- Experience ideally combining a demanding consulting or Big Four environment with hands-on experience in a startup, scale-up, or growth company.
- Experience building scalable finance structures and working with integrated financial planning, business planning, financial modelling, forecasting, and management reporting.
- Strong knowledge of controlling, business performance management, governance, risk management, and the evaluation of business models, investments, and growth options.
- Understanding of German commercial, tax, and corporate law requirements.
- Experience managing external professional advisors.
- Ideally, experience in the media, entertainment, sports rights, streaming, subscription, or digital B2C environment, including licensing and revenue-share models.
- Experience with financing processes, investor reporting, due diligence, or M&A is an advantage.
- Ability to structure complex financial topics clearly and act as a strategic sparring partner.
- Strong analytical and entrepreneurial thinking, a high degree of independence, and a strong sense of ownership.
- Confident and practical use of AI tools in finance, with demonstrated examples of implemented AI-supported solutions and their value creation.
- Excellent written and spoken German and English.
- Confident use of finance, reporting, and collaboration tools.
Skills
- Finance
- Financial Planning
- Budgeting
- Business Cases
- Financial Modelling
- Forecasting
- Scenario Planning
- KPI Systems
- Business Model Evaluation
- Investment Evaluation
- Partnership Evaluation
- Licensing Models
- Growth Options Evaluation
- Financing Rounds Support
- Investor Readiness
- Due Diligence
- Strategic Transactions
- Management Reporting
- Investor Reporting
- Partner Reporting
- Controlling
- Business Performance Management
- Governance
- Risk Management
- German Commercial Law
- German Tax Law
- German Corporate Law
- Media Industry Knowledge
- Entertainment Industry Knowledge
- Sports Rights Knowledge
- Streaming Knowledge
- Subscription Knowledge
- Digital B2C Knowledge
- Licensing Models
- Revenue Share Models
- M&A
- AI Tools in Finance
- Financial Analysis
- Entrepreneurial Thinking
- Independent Work
- Ownership
- German Language Proficiency
- English Language Proficiency
- Finance Tools
- Reporting Tools
- Collaboration Tools
Location
- Berlin
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- At least seven years of relevant professional experience in finance
- Several years in a strategically responsible finance role
About the Company
- L1VE is a growing media and technology company with locations in Berlin and New York.
- L1VE transforms the way people experience sports, music, and entertainment with immersive 14K, 3D, and 360° streaming technologies and innovative live formats.
- L1VE is an immersive media house bringing fans to the world’s biggest sports and music moments in real time, 14K, 360° 3D.
- L1VE is building the platform that turns distance into presence, making live events accessible to anyone, anywhere.