Finance Lead

about 1 year ago
Full time role
Berlin, BE, DE... more
Berlin, BE, DE... more

Company

Ostrom makes energy ⚖️fair, 📱smart and 🪴green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable ...

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Job Description

Your mission
We are looking for an experienced, hands-on Finance Lead with a minimum of 4 years of experience. You already have a lot of experience in corporate finance, excellent analytical skills, and the drive to implement new things directly!

As part of the Finance team, you will initially focus on professionalizing and building up our finance processes and overseeing the department's future (team) growth. You will act as a sparring partner and be the interface to our teams, investors, and founder team.

Our office is in Berlin but have a remote-first policy. What you'll be keeping busy with
  • Finance: You are the lynchpin of our cash flow management - you optimize our capital requirements and assist with financing, be it equity or debt (including credit lines, guarantee facilities, etc.).
  • Planning, Scenarios, & Sparring: You are responsible for planning and supporting the teams in setting budgets, and tracking actuals and targets. You calculate and create scenarios and act as a sparring partner for the founder team.
  • Investor Reporting: You create and further professionalize our (investor) reporting and track our core KPIs and also derive recommendations for further action.
  • Tax & Accounting: You work closely with our tax advisor from Rödl & Partner and prepare the monthly advance VAT return and the annual financial statements. Further, you optimize and automate our processes in cooperation with Moss, among others.
  • Purchasing: You work together with our BKV service provider and our PPA partners to optimize purchasing. You are familiar with words such as futures or hedges.
Your profile
  • Execution & Hands-On: Before the plan is in place, the first things have already been tried out and implemented.
  • Experience: You have several years of experience either in a top consultancy, investment bank or fast-growing start-up. You are the first in our team, but you also have experience in building the team. Topics like Datev, HGB, balance sheets, cash flows, P&L, or business plans are not new territory.
  • Data-Driven & Analytical: You are absolutely data-driven and can do Excel in your sleep. You are also familiar with Python/R, SQL, and Tableau/Power BI as reporting tools. You use your skills to spar and support decisions.
  • German & English: You speak German and English fluently - we are English-first, but taxes & accounting are unfortunately original German subject areas.
  • Team Player: You are an absolute team player.
Nice to have
  • Energy Background: This is really a pure "nice-to-have". Almost everyone on our team has had no energy experience and scores point with their expertise and best practices from other areas.
Why us?
  • Environmental Impact: Each customer who switches to Ostrom on average helps offset 1.5 tons of CO2 emissions per year compared to the average German energy mix.
  • Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work model. You choose where you want to work and have an office in Berlin, Mitte.
  • Relocation Package: We wont let distance get in the way, we offer visa and relocation support.
  • Trust-based Team: A truly flat hierarchy and transparent company culture, where everyone’s voice matters.
  • Benefits: From monthly team events to discounted gym membership, ticket for public transport, e-Bike or e-Moped, Futurebens or monthly vouchers.
  • Personal Development: You receive an annual growth budget, encompassed with development cycles twice a year.

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