Public Funding Finance Manager

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🇮🇹 Italy – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Axelera AI

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

Axelera AI is a leading provider of AI hardware acceleration technology tailored for generative AI and computer vision inference. The company offers advanced AI processing units designed to integrate seamlessly into innovations, focused on delivering high-performance, cost-effective, and energy-efficient AI solutions. Axelera AI's flagship product, the Metis AI Processing Unit, accelerates inference at the edge, making it ideal for applications like video analysis and multi-channel video analytics. The company is recognized for its deep tech innovations and is actively contributing to the advancement of AI by providing state-of-the-art AI acceleration capabilities for edge computing.

📋 Description

• Own financial reporting for all publicly funded projects across the group • Prepare and submit periodic financial statements, cost claims and final reports in funder portals • Manage timesheets, personnel cost methodology, overhead calculations, subcontractor and equipment cost eligibility, and supporting documentation • Coordinate with project coordinators, partners and technical leads on grant cost tracking and reporting • Own WBSO applications and reporting and equivalent R&D incentives in other jurisdictions • Maintain a group-wide grant register covering awards, funding rates, claim schedules, cash receipts, clawback risk and compliance obligations • Support grant accounting under IAS 20 and forecast grant cash flows and income • Act as primary finance contact for funder audits, CFS, reviews and ex-post controls • Prepare audit files, coordinate auditor access, and manage responses and remediation • Monitor funder rules, state aid requirements and eligibility conditions • Design and improve internal controls, policies and templates for grant compliance • Own accounting, month-end close and financial reporting for the Italian entity under Italian GAAP and group IFRS requirements via NetSuite • Prepare statutory financial statements and manage the Italian statutory auditor relationship • Prepare group reporting packs, intercompany reconciliations and balance sheet reconciliations • Oversee local payables, receivables, cash, banking and payroll inputs • Liaise with tax advisers and accountants on IRES/IRAP, IVA, withholding taxes, transfer pricing and periodic filings • Ensure timely tax payments, returns, statutory filings and local compliance submissions • Support tax audits and authority queries • Contribute to Italian regulatory and governance requirements, including AML/beneficial ownership documentation • Partner with engineering, programme management, HR and legal on funding, budgeting and compliance • Support grant applications with budgets, cost eligibility checks and financial proposal sections • Contribute to group finance initiatives, process improvement, systems, forecasting and capital-markets readiness

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or similar • 5+ years in finance, ideally including public funding or grant management within a technology, R&D-intensive or semiconductor environment, or in audit/advisory • Hands-on experience with EU-funded project financial reporting, including cost eligibility, audit certificates and funder portals • Strong working knowledge of Italian GAAP (OIC), statutory reporting, and Italian tax (IRES, IRAP, IVA) • Working knowledge of IFRS and experience supporting group consolidation or reporting • Experience managing statutory audits and working with external auditors and tax advisers • Proficiency with ERP systems; NetSuite preferred • Advanced Excel • Fluent Italian, written and spoken • Professional-level English • Experience with IAS 20 grant accounting and R&D incentive schemes in multiple countries is desirable • Experience in a multi-entity, multi-currency, international group is desirable • Familiarity with state aid rules and clawback/recovery mechanisms is desirable • Experience in a scale-up or high-growth environment is desirable • Regular travel to the Netherlands required • Professional working proficiency in English and Italian, both written and spoken

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity participation • Hybrid working and opportunities for professional development • A pivotal role in a high-growth deep-tech company at the forefront of AI hardware • Direct exposure to group leadership and a broad, international scope

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