(Senior) Director Finance (m/f/d)

vialytics • Dresden, Deutschland

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

The (Senior) Director Finance leads vialytics’ entire Finance function below the CFO, covering Accounting and Finance Operations, FP&A, Controlling, and Treasury across DACH, France, and the US. This is a scale-and-transform role focused on building a dependable, scalable, AI-enabled finance function that provides trustworthy numbers, forward-looking planning, and commercially useful decisions while maintaining human accountability for controls, payments, and statutory reporting. The role currently leads a team of three and shapes the future team through hiring and the use of AI agents.

The Director will strengthen financial operations and planning, including monthly close, group consolidation, rolling forecasts, budgeting, scenario modeling, cash management, and performance reporting. The role also owns statutory accounting, transfer pricing, audits, multi-entity processes, and ERP and finance-process improvements. It includes piloting AI-supported workflows with documented human review and controls, preparing investor materials to support fundraising, and constructively challenging senior stakeholders on business performance.

The role is based in Germany and may be performed remotely or in a hybrid arrangement, with travel for events and training. The position works directly below the CFO and has a key role in vialytics’ international growth and finance-function development.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of proven leadership across accounting, close, controlling or corporate performance management, planning, and forecasting, including scaling teams and processes.
• At least 10 years of strong hands-on FP&A experience, including strategic finance, planning and budgeting, rolling forecasts, scenario modeling, and financial and SaaS-metric performance reporting.
• Leadership experience at a fast-growing European SaaS, fintech, or scale-up company, or in a Big Four consulting environment in audit, transaction advisory, or CFO consulting.
• Experience with statutory accounting (HGB; French GAAP, US GAAP, or IFRS are optional), group consolidation, audit, transfer pricing, and multi-entity setups.
• ERP and process ownership across R2R, P2P, and O2C; NetSuite is preferred.
• Experience supporting fundraising, investor reporting, and data-room preparation.
• Hands-on experience building AI-supported finance workflows and introducing them into a team, with clear approval logic, audit trails, and human sign-off.
• A track record of owning accounting and FP&A and improving the system, rather than only maintaining it.
• Confidence to challenge senior stakeholders with evidence.
• Fluent German and English.

Nice To Haves

• ACCA, CPA/WP, or a similar qualification.
• Experience with a US subsidiary or US GAAP.
• French language skills or French operations experience.
• B2G or public procurement experience.
• Experience implementing an FP&A tool.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Finance function across Accounting, Controlling, FP&A, and Treasury in DACH, France, and the US.
• Lead and automate monthly close and group consolidation, with agreed deadlines, clear ownership, and a full audit trail.
• Build rolling forecast and budget processes, including scenario modeling for topline growth, headcount, and runway across markets.
• Improve management and board reporting for financial and SaaS metrics, working with Data & Analytics.
• Improve cash conversion and cash forecasting against measurable baselines and targets.
• Own statutory accounting, group consolidation, transfer pricing, and audit topics across the multi-entity structure.
• Develop an agentic finance operating model, define agentic and non-agentic responsibilities, identify capability gaps, and drive team development, the agentic roadmap, and hiring plan.
• Own and streamline the ERP and finance processes, ideally using NetSuite, across O2C, P2P, and R2R; prioritize automation opportunities.
• Pilot at least two AI-supported finance workflows with documented human review and controls.
• Prepare investor-ready data, models, and data-room inputs to support the CFO in fundraising.
• Constructively challenge the CFO and commercial stakeholders, clarifying the financial implications of performance.
• Own treasury and cash management, including liquidity planning, banking relationships, and payment runs.
• Build cost controlling, including cost-centre and personnel-cost reporting and commercial evaluation of procurement decisions.

Benefits

• €1,500 annual training budget.
• EGYM Wellpass.
• Corporate Benefits or FutureBens Access.
• Regular in-person team gatherings and company-wide meetups.
• Top-tier equipment and tools, including a MacBook, iPhone, AirPods, Google Workspace, Notion, Slack, Salesforce, Aircall, and Microsoft 365.
• Flexible hybrid or remote working from Germany, with travel for events and training.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed