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HIHIGHCAT

Head of Finance(m/w/x)

Konstanz
Full-timeWith Home OfficeSenior

Financial strategy and process ownership for defense tech scale-up. High-growth, transaction environment experience required. Significant equity stake, daily work with tangible real-world consequences.

Requirements

  • 5+ years finance, accounting, or controlling leadership
  • High-growth scale-up experience
  • Consumer electronics company experience
  • Overseeing hardware/software integration
  • Transaction environment experience (M&A/fundraising)
  • Building financial systems from scratch
  • Hyper-fast-paced environment experience
  • Demand for dashboards, metrics, transparency
  • Strong financial modeling skills
  • Strong cash management skills
  • Building trusted operating models
  • Leading cross-functionally without authority
  • Influencing decisions through clarity, relationships, judgment
  • Exceptional decision-making under pressure
  • Consequential calls with incomplete information
  • Owning results and earning trust
  • Investor reporting experience
  • Budgeting experience
  • Strategic finance experience
  • Fundraising readiness experience
  • Passion for HIGHCAT's mission
  • Motivated by financial excellence enabling others

Tasks

  • Build and own financial processes and systems
  • Guide major financial decisions
  • Work closely with CEO and leadership
  • Report and shape financial strategy
  • Influence cross-functional executives
  • Make decisions with incomplete information
  • Build and guide finance team
  • Drive monthly close process
  • Coordinate annual financial statements
  • Ensure financial data accuracy and audit-readiness
  • Establish clear accounting processes
  • Identify margin leaks in COGS and supplier costs
  • Build cost transparency across products and projects
  • Enable better tradeoffs in engineering, operations, and sales
  • Establish pricing logic and profitability frameworks
  • Build and maintain company-wide and departmental budgets
  • Define and track key financial and operational KPIs
  • Conduct variance analysis
  • Provide financial insights for decision-making
  • Own HIGHCAT's cash position and runway
  • Monitor and optimize working capital
  • Build future-oriented cash plans
  • Implement real-time financial visibility tools
  • Build financial performance dashboards
  • Anticipate and solve financial bottlenecks
  • Own CapEx planning end-to-end
  • Evaluate investment opportunities
  • Pursue public funding and strategic financing
  • Strengthen fundraising readiness and strategic leverage

Work Experience

  • 5 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Benefits

Competitive Pay

  • Competitive compensation package

Startup Environment

  • Significant equity stake
  • Decisions move fast
  • Work alongside company executives
  • Foundation-building experience

Purpose-Driven Work

  • Daily work with tangible real-world consequences
  • Opportunity to shape company strategy

Informal Culture

  • High-trust, low-bureaucracy culture
  • Transparent communication from leadership

Other Benefits

  • Ownership is real
  • Financial expertise will shape organizational DNA

Career Advancement

  • Competence rewarded with increasing responsibility
  • Accelerated development as a financial leader

Diverse Work

  • Complexity that will stretch capabilities
  • Exposure to novel technology deployment
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