Head of Operations & Finance

What we do

Merantix Momentum is a Berlin-based multi-million revenue AI startup with around 50 full-time employees focusing on accelerating AI adoption across many industries through B2B solutions, as well as publicly funded research projects. We work across several domains, including automotive, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and many more, transforming businesses as an external machine learning department. We achieve this using our core expertise in state-of-the-art machine learning combined with our culture of rapid iterations to build scalable solutions.

Your role

We are looking for a Head of Finance and Operations who will be working directly with the founder to build and manage the financial, legal and operational backbone of our organization for scale; ensuring operational excellence. You will have an outsized impact, shaping the company through your efforts, experience and industry expertise.

Your Responsibilities will include:

• Own the company s financials and partner with the leadership to develop and execute a sustainable long term financial plan
• Own the company's core finance, controlling, budgeting and accounting processes
• Reporting and governance: prepare investor reportings and supervisory board meetings
• Drive the standardization of key business processes and quality assurance
• Strategically architect and control core business KPIs
• Develop an understanding of our legal affairs and manage compliance in areas such as data protection and certifications and establish key processes
• Ensure successful people operations including recruiting, HR products and payroll
• Ensure effective performance management e.g. through the OKR cycle
• Team scaling: build and manage a team for the operations functions
• Partner management: architect, implement and manage partner relationships e.g for distribution or technical implementation partnerships in coordination with respective teams
• Architecting the expansion of the organization to new locations

Your profile

• Required: BA/BS in business or related field, or equivalent practical experience. Masters or MBA a plus
• Significant experience in finance, accounting or legal with at least 5+ years of relevant experience
• Previous experience in building teams/organizations in fast-growing startup(s)
• Entrepreneurial drive, willingness to take responsibility, high ambition, and the ability to achieve goals collaboratively
• Excellent verbal and written communication (DE/EN) and interpersonal skills in order to effectively collaborate with internal and external stakeholders

What we offer

• Engaging Topics and Excellence: We offer unique insights into applied machine learning research and development, working with a group of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs.
• International Team: We are a dynamic and international team.
• We offer Visa Sponsorship.
• Learning and Development: We provide an annual learning and development budget for attending conferences or purchasing educational resources to further develop our employees skills. We also hold weekly and monthly events around AI innovation and implementation.
• Dynamic and open Working Culture: We have a very flat hierarchy, open 360 feedback, and flexibility in our work-from-home policy as well as working hours.
• AI Ethics: We are committed to developing ethical AI software and actively foster open discussions on this topic within our team.
• Brand new office space: Bright and open office situated on the AI Campus in Berlin.
• Hardware allowance: We give you support to have all the equipment you would need to thrive on your job.

Employee benefits: We offer a monthly allowance per employee that can be allocated as desired to one of the following: Mobility & transportation (RYDES), sports (Urban Sports Club) or groceries (Edenred).