Senior Finance Operations Manager

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🕒 August 24

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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Holtzbrinck

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10,000+ employees

Holtzbrinck is a global group of companies dedicated to exploring and publishing ideas, information, and stories that win hearts, change minds, and improve lives.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and continuously improve scalable financial frameworks, methodologies, controls, and standardised processes • Own end-to-end invoice reconciliation, invoice processing, and vendor invoice compliance • Maintain granular project cost tracking and attribution across cost centers • Prepare monthly management reports, quarterly rolling forecasts, and quarterly business review financial packages • Lead commercial finance initiatives including pricing strategies, business case development, cost analysis, and profitability assessments • Own the revenue cycle for client-billable work, including deliverable tracking, invoicing, and accounts receivable monitoring • Monitor cashflow and liquidity planning with Holtzbrinck Treasury • Support Founders and Head of Operations with financial analysis, scenario modelling, and decision support • Identify opportunities to automate and improve finance workflows, reporting, and data quality using modern tools and AI

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in finance operations, FP&A, controlling, commercial finance, or a comparable finance role • Strong understanding of financial statements, cash flow, budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and variance analysis • Hands-on experience building financial models and translating complex financial data into clear business insights • Experience with project-, product-, or business-unit-level cost allocation, margin analysis, and profitability tracking • Proven ability to independently own financial processes and improve or build structures in a growing organisation • Strong commercial mindset and ability to connect financial performance with operational and strategic business decisions • Experience with ERP, accounting, expense management, or financial planning systems and reconciling data across multiple sources • High level of accuracy and financial discipline without losing pragmatism or speed • Strong stakeholder management skills and confidence working with senior leadership and external or Group finance functions • Excellent English and German communication skills (min. B2) • Proactive, self-organised working style with a high degree of ownership and appetite for solving ambiguous problems

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Great career development opportunities, incl. learning and development budget • Comprehensive benefits including mental wellbeing support (Nilo), bike leasing (JobRad), WeWork co-working space access, and workation options • 100% remote work within Germany • Work-life balance (#familyfirst) • Corporate funding, network and long-term commitment with entrepreneurial freedom of a start-up