Financial Controller

Responsibilities

• Deliver accurate, timely reporting across multiple entities, currencies, and reporting frameworks.
• Establish the documentation and control trail that makes external review a formality rather than a scramble.
• Work alongside the Ops team on the things a growing company throws at finance - budgeting and forecasting, cash analysis, group tax structuring, and supporting future funding rounds.

Requirements

You've owned a month-end close end to end

• A track record of building or improving processes in fast-changing startup environments. You're quick to spot something sub-optimal, design a fix, and see it through.
• Hands-on experience with a traditional ERP or comparable modern finance stack, and confident picking up and optimising new tools.
• Comfort connecting the dots across different operational domains (Finance, People, Legal). You understand how a change in one area ripples into others.
• Familiarity with Dutch, Swiss, and/or US statutory reporting and local filing requirements
• A versatile communicator who can document a process clearly enough that someone else can follow it
• Ability to be in the office at least 3 days a week.

Preferred

• You've been an early finance hire at a scale-up
• Familiarity with any of Ramp, Campfire, or HubSpot
• Experience preparing for a first statutory audit

Bring accounting in-house

Take full ownership of the group's accounting from our external partners, and shape how it runs from the ground up.

Design the core financial processes

Build procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and record-to-report end to end, with controls that hold up as the company scales.

Automate what shouldn't be manual

Get everything possible out of our finance tools (i.e. Ramp and Campfire), and keep asking which recurring task shouldn't need a human next quarter.

Requirements

• 4+ years in accounting or controlling, ideally mixing audit or accounting firm experience with time in-house at a startup or scaleup
• You prioritise well under a lot of moving parts

Our commitment to inclusive hiring

Cradle evaluates all candidates based on merit, regardless of sex, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background, or any other aspect of identity. We maintain zero tolerance for discrimination and actively encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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