Chief Financial Officer – SaaS Payments Scale Up

Job Description

Cherry Ventures is supporting our portfolio with this hire

Chief Financial Officer (f/m/d) Berlin, Amsterdam, London

At Moss, we help companies spend smarter. We’re a place where aspiring, adaptable quick-thinkers thrive, we’re set to become the leading spend management platform in the European FinTech industry. We are looking for a Chief Financial Officer (f/m/d) who will oversee our Finance function, and play a central and strategic role across the company and within the Executive Team.

As CFO you will be instrumental in identifying opportunities to optimise, innovate, and enable sustainable growth.

Your responsibilities

Here’s what you’ll have ownership over day-to-day:

• Business planning and transformation – you’ll be proactive in studying internal and external data (e.g. product usage, employee data, commercial figures, market trends) in order to be able to tell a story on how the business is performing now, and how it could be. You will also drive our efforts in planning growth, investments and budgets.

Informed decision-making – you’ll oversee the analysis of finance metrics, in order to draw meaningful insights and provide guidance and steering to senior leaders. Product advocacy – you’ll be excited about working for a product that’s designed to help finance leaders like yourself. You’ll devote time in gaining an in-depth understanding of the product, supporting the product roadmap and becoming a brand ambassador amongst your network.

• Compliance, regulation, business continuity – you’ll stay abreast of and adhere to relevant financial frameworks, cross-market regulators, investor and partner requirements, tax laws, and auditors.
• Day to day operations – you’ll lean in on your experience and best practice to oversee all tax & accounting, financial reporting and FP&A efforts, alongside any future refinancing/fundraising activities.
• Team design and development – you’ll design and structure your team in line with business requirements, and you’ll rely on your leadership abilities to hire, onboard, train, engage and develop your team.

About you

We think you’ll need the following experience and qualifications to succeed in this role:

• Proven experience in leading and scaling a Finance function.
• Operational knowledge of tax and accounting with exposure to German and/ or EU tax systems.
• B2B SaaS company experience across multiple markets.

In addition, here are the skills and attributes we are looking for:

• Expert operator – you leverage your knowledge and experience to model out and design innovative, effective, sustainable business models and financial practices.
• Analytical storyteller – you analyse vast and complex datasets in order to draw insights, and tell meaningful stories. This enables you to collaborate closely with senior leaders to steer and guide decisions that lead to sustainable growth.
• Empathetic and influential leader – you build high performing teams by creating a supportive culture based on mutual trust. You see the big picture of where Moss is heading, and you design and implement ways of keeping your team and stakeholders informed, aligned, and inspired on that journey.
• Customer and product ambassador – you develop a deep understanding of the product and customers you serve. You work passionately to represent the needs of the customer and identify opportunities to deliver more value.
• Company champion – you care about the greater good, and encourage meaningful collaboration across all teams. You actively support initiatives and values that strengthen the business and Moss’ culture.

Our offer

We believe the greatest benefit we can offer you is the opportunity to grow in a fun environment, to develop your skills and progress your career – we’d like to help you on that journey. Here’s what else you can expect:

• An attractive compensation package, including our company stock option plan, annual learning budget, unlimited access to our mental health and wellbeing offering and work from abroad policy.

About Moss

Moss is a SaaS scaleup business founded in Berlin. In less than three years we have built a passionate team of circa 320 people from 30+ nationalities in 6 offices across Europe. To date, we help over 2200 businesses in Germany, Netherlands and the UK to spend smarter. Our leading spend management solution encompasses corporate cards, invoice management, employee cash reimbursements and controlling modules that help finance teams save thousands of hours in manual data processing and gain complete control while enabling their teams. Moss has raised a total of €155 million in funding and is backed by renowned tech investors including Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Global Founders Capital, Cherry Ventures and A-Star. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customer base, but we also strive to do the same for our growing team.

At Moss, we offer equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, or other class protected by applicable law.

Cherry Ventures is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.