Sharpist is on a journey to deliver measurable business outcomes to its global enterprise clients, through a digital people development solution that founds on 1:1 coaching. As Europe's leading solution for people development, Sharpist marries the individual employee's needs for personalized learning with the demand for worldwide scalability of global organizations such as Axel Springer, STRABAG, and Porsche. To achieve this "personalization at scale" Sharpist bets on unparalleled user engagement. This engagement derives from combining a 1:1 human coaching offer with a digital learning journey that makes personal growth transparent and gamifies the development experience, just like Apple Health or Strava are doing in their particular domains.
As VP Finance you translate the company vision of providing personalised learning to every employee worldwide and into our growth and equity story, by identifying growth drivers. You are accountable for defining the company strategy together with the CEO, based on our financial lever analysis. Further, you will oversee our internal operations in terms of financial analysis, controlling, and accounting as well as in legal.
💙 Sharpist was founded on the core belief that personalized learning is an important right everyone should be able to have access to. We are an equal opportunity employer and we encourage you to apply for this role no matter of all ethnic backgrounds, genders, and sexual orientations. 🙂
Job requirements
What you'll do here at Sharpist
Within 1 month you will…
Get familiar with our business model and its input variables as well as key drivers
Understand and execute the processes underlying our financial reporting
Derive first recommendations on how to improve the quality and insightfulness of our reporting and financial planning
Establish an interpersonal connection with your team of 3 and be involved in the hiring of a Legal Counsel
Within 1 quarter you will…
Manage our our internal and external accountants to ensure a diligent and timely bookkeeping, invoice handling (outgoing and ingoing), and cash management
Take full accountability for financial reporting (incl. BWA, P&L), forecast, and recurring revenue reporting (FP&A)
Co-author our growth strategy with our CEO and COO based on solid financial metrics and analyses
Support the CEO in investor and board relations
Be responsible for our short term & long term cash planning
Within 1 year you will…
Have accompanied at least one significant financing round with international investors
Build out capacities to run complete accounting processes internally
Be a lighthouse for strategic analysis and execution in- and outside of the company
Be the financial expert our CEO can rely on
Be a trusted advisor for the sales team to ensure a quick and pragmatic handling of client's legal requests
Have learned from the strategic bets we have placed together
And then, what's next?
Identify optimal financing opportunities to fund your and our growth plans
Accompany the further internationalization of the Sharpist Group
We believe, you'll be successful if you are this type of person
Strength in analytical and strategic thinking to provide recommendations on our growth strategy
High level of accountability and diligence to ensure a solid financial setup and hedge against potential reporting mistakes
Strong communicator who is always upfront with respective stakeholders
Enthusiasm to execute and implement initiatives that have a clear impact on company performance indicators
Hard-working and eager to run at the CEO's pace while embodying calmness in stressful times
Ability to empower your team to collaborate and execute against set objectives
Your pragmatism supports you in finding ways to masterfully interpret legal requirements
These hard facts will get us excited to get to know you better
Background in an enterprise-facing company, preferably SaaS environment and experience with recurring revenue models
FP&A background with a strong track record in the implementation of initiatives, Big 4 audit background is a plus
Experience in closely working together with the CEO and securing funding rounds (2-3 digit million)
German GAAP knowledge (HGB) is a must, IFRS / US-GAAP is a plus
Leadership experience of managing teams of minimum 3-5 people
Knowledge in Bookkeeping & Legal Matters
International work experience
Apply now if this captures your interest, and you want to take part in the personalization of learning for every employee worldwide. We are excited to get to know you!
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