[Hiring] Chief Financial Officer @Viseven

Role Description

Lead the company's Finance, Accounting, Legal, and Compliance functions, driving financial performance, commercial and pricing discipline, supporting strategic decision-making, and ensuring effective resource allocation, sustainable growth, and long-term profitability.

Responsibilities

• Strategic and Financial Planning: Partnering with the CEO and leadership team to shape company strategy, evaluate business opportunities, and translate strategic objectives into financial plans, targets, and resource allocation decisions; overseeing the company's financial plans, budgeting, and forecasting processes, ensuring alignment with business objectives and effective resource allocation.
• Business Performance Management: Establishing and managing the company's business financial performance management framework, including KPIs, management reporting, variance analysis, and corrective action planning in partnership with business leaders.
• Commercial Finance and Pricing: Owning the financial terms of the commercial offer: reviewing commercial contracts and statements of work, and supporting Sales and Delivery on the financial part of client proposals, including prices, discounts, payment terms and commercial risk; building pricing and commercial models for new services; leading the periodic review of global price lists together with the commercial organization.
• Funding and Investment: Managing capital allocation, financing, and fundraising activities, and overseeing M&A transactions where applicable.
• Financial Systems and Processes: Developing and implementing financial systems and processes that are efficient, accurate, and scalable, ensuring timely, accurate, and actionable financial and business performance reporting to support data-driven decision-making across the company.
• Financial Analysis: Conducting financial analysis, identifying trends and variances to evaluate the company's financial performance, identifying and implementing opportunities for improvement; evaluating business performance drivers, profitability, cost efficiency, investment returns, and proactively recommending actions to improve business results.
• Stakeholder Communication: Liaising regarding financial results, forecasts, risks, and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders, including executive leadership, investors, and board members, as applicable.
• Tax and Finance Compliance: Overseeing financial, accounting, and tax compliance ensuring appropriate governance and management of legal and regulatory risks.
• Legal and Contract Management: Overseeing the Legal function: client, supplier and partnership contracting and the contract register; employment, subcontractor and relocation legal support; corporate governance and the holding structure; counterparty due diligence; and the data privacy, ethics, IP and ESG programmes, including the related certifications and audits.
• Risk Management: Identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating financial risks, incl. currency risk, market risk, credit risk, and operational risk.
• Cash Flow Management: Monitoring financial runway and developing financial scenarios to support business planning and ensure sufficient liquidity. Owning liquidity forecasting and day-to-day liquidity management, including the payment schedule and the working capital position; managing banking relationships and mandates across all group entities; sourcing, negotiating and operating trade and supply chain finance facilities, including early payment programmes with clients.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in corporate finance, accounting, auditing, controlling, or a related field, including relevant experience managing financial processes or teams.
• SaaS business experience (desirable): Experience in a SaaS or subscription-based business, with a strong understanding of recurring revenue metrics, unit economics, and growth and profitability drivers.
• Strong understanding of financial frameworks, accounting principles, financial controls, and core finance processes.
• Proven experience in developing or improving finance functions, financial processes, and reporting systems.
• Business partnering: proven ability to influence strategic and operational decisions, challenge business assumptions, and drive performance improvements through cross-functional collaboration.
• International experience: Experience managing finance, accounting, and tax matters across multiple jurisdictions.
• Commercial finance: experience in pricing, deal structuring and commercial contract review, and in partnering with a sales organisation on proposals, discounts and payment terms.
• Treasury and banking: experience managing bank relationships and mandates in several jurisdictions, and securing working capital, trade finance or debt facilities.
• Legal function oversight: experience leading or directly overseeing an in-house legal and compliance team in a multi-jurisdiction group.
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder management, influencing, and organizational skills.
• Strong leadership capabilities and experience managing teams, driving change, and improving operational effectiveness.
• Resilience, adaptability, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Strategic, critical, and holistic thinking, with a focus on business value and sound financial decision-making.
• Upper-intermediate to advanced English proficiency.
• Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or a related field, or an equivalent qualification.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with performance-based salary reviews.
• Professional and career growth opportunities in a global environment.
• Flexible work format with remote opportunities.
• Paid time off (18 business days) and sick leave according to company policy.
• Family leave (3 paid business days) for important life moments.
• Comprehensive medical insurance coverage.
• English language courses.
• Professional development through forums, conferences, and learning programs.
• Team-building activities and corporate events.
• A collaborative international team where your ideas matter.