We are looking for an entrepreneurial finance professional comfortable in driving the finance function from accounting to budgeting and reporting, in a start up context.
Description
Financial Operations Management:
- Overseeing day-to-day financial operations
- Ensure the supervision of financed projects, ensuring their success
- Ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulations and internal policies
- Managing budgeting and forecasting processes
Financial Reporting and Analysis:
- Preparing and analyzing financial reports
- Providing insights and recommendations to senior management
- Supporting strategic decision-making
Cross-functional Collaboration:
- Collaborating with teams for financial planning and operational performance
Month-end and Year-end Closing:
- Ensuring timely and accurate completion of closing activities
Executive Support and Deal Execution:
- Supporting CEO and executive team in deal execution
- Engaging with various stakeholders, including investors, staff, partners, and customers
Internal Function Engagement:
- Ensuring appropriate engagement with internal functions during projects
- Supervision of finance staff recruitment, development, and organization
Profile
- Degree or Master's in Finance, Business Administration, or Economics from a reputable institution
- Minimum 6 years experience in financial areas, preferably in early-stage and fast-growth startups
- Profound understanding of financial accounting and reporting regulations in Portugal and Europe
- Solid knowledge on financed projects
- Demonstrated success in building and leading financial systems and teams
- Strong communication, collaborative attitude, and ability to foster high-performing teams
- Well-structured and capable of establishing financial accounting and reporting systems in rapidly growing startups
- Proficient in English, with excellent business reporting skills
- Passion, strategic thinking, problem-solving ability, agility, entrepreneurship, teamwork, responsiveness, and self-motivation.
Job Offer
The opportunity to contribute to the growth of a start up project.