Head of Finance and Operations – IT/Energy Non-profit

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Open Energy Transition

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🤝 Non-profit

Consulting • Logistics • Non-profit

Open Energy Transition is a non-profit environmental consultancy, think tank, and open-source software development organization focused on transforming energy planning for the global transition to sustainable energy. It develops, co-maintains, and applies open-source energy system modelling tools (including PyPSA, PyPSA-Eur/Earth, Linopy, and atlite), builds secure applications that integrate proprietary data, and provides customized modelling, software development, support, and training to enable reproducible, accessible, and locally maintainable energy planning.

📋 Description

• Lead financial management, project and grant finance, business administration and internal business systems • Oversee People Operations and ensure clear ownership and specialist support for IT support, information security, data protection and corporate compliance • Build strong financial management across a project-heavy organization, including restricted funds, project budgets, cost allocation, forecasting, financial reporting and donor or client requirements • Lead a lean internal team and coordinate project leads, technical colleagues and external specialists • Shape the team, systems and external-support model as OET grows • Lead organizational budgeting, forecasting, cash management, controlling and management reporting • Own the financial framework for projects and restricted funds, including budgeting, cost allocation, expenditure tracking and forecasting • Ensure reliable accounting, payroll, banking, tax, statutory reporting and audits with internal colleagues and external advisors • Partner with the CEO and project leads on proposal budgets, contracts, pricing, indirect-cost recovery and major financial decisions • Provide financial analysis to support leadership and project-team decisions • Own business administration, including contracts, procurement, vendors, insurance, policies and recurring corporate obligations • Improve finance and business systems, including ERP, project accounting, reporting, workflows and automation • Establish scalable internal IT support covering employee support, access and account management, onboarding and offboarding, business software and vendor coordination • Manage information security, data protection, organizational risk and business continuity with specialists and external advisors • Identify operational bottlenecks and build pragmatic solutions for a growing, fully remote organization • Lead and develop a lean team across Finance, People Operations and administration • Set clear responsibilities and coordinate completion of important operational work • Decide what should be handled internally, automated or supported by external providers • Work with the CEO and other leaders to strengthen OET’s operating model

🎯 Requirements

• Significant relevant experience in Finance & Operations, typically 8+ years • Significant experience in finance, accounting, controlling or finance-led business operations • Strong experience with project accounting, restricted funds, grants or contract-funded work • Broad business-administration experience beyond finance, including systems, vendors, contracts, organizational processes or people operations • Experience building or substantially improving finance and operational systems in a growing organization • Confidence working with accountants, auditors, banks, software providers and other professional advisors • Strong analytical judgment and ability to turn financial and operational information into clear decisions • Experience leading people and creating effective teams • Excellent written and spoken English • High integrity and comfort working in a remote, asynchronous organization • German strongly preferred • Professional proficiency in German preferred • Knowledge of German accounting, tax or non-profit administration preferred • Experience in a project-based non-profit, professional-services organization, technology company or SaaS environment preferred • Experience with donor reporting, public grants or multi-country projects preferred • Experience with ERP and project-accounting systems such as Odoo or DATEV preferred • Experience establishing internal IT support or IT service-management processes preferred • Familiarity with ISO 27001, data protection or comparable governance frameworks preferred • A finance, accounting or business-administration qualification or equivalent professional training preferred • A particular university degree is not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time preferred; 80-100% arrangements can be considered • Fully remote, high-trust working environment • High autonomy and freedom to shape the function • Direct reporting to the CEO and influence on organizational and financial decisions • Meaningful ownership of a critical function • Opportunity to work across international projects, philanthropy, software and organizational growth • Meaningful mission supporting critical infrastructure and the global energy transition • Up to once-per-quarter work travel