Founders Associate (fmd) Finance and Operations (Serial Entrepreneurs)

We previously co-founded and scaled Viafintech (Barzahlen) to more than 100 employees building one of Germanys leading FinTech companies with operations across 17 markets in Europe and the 2021 Viafintech was acquired by the NYSE-listed Paysafe Group in a three-digit million-euro transaction.

Finperks is our next venture.

Founded in summer 2025 Finperks is building a unified infrastructure for prepaid products including gift cards (e.g. Apple Amazon Google) airtime and eCash accessible through a single API. Our goal is to simplify a fragmented prepaid value chain and enable businesses to integrate and distribute prepaid products more efficiently.

Within the first months we have onboarded 700 brands and already build a solid customer bas. The prepaid market is substantial with annual volumes of approximately 600bn today expected to grow significantly to 1.800bn by 2028.

By reducing the number of intermediaries and connecting brands more directly with clients Finperks aims to improve efficiency and global reach. While prepaid products are currently concentrated in developed markets we see long-term potential for broader global adoption including emerging markets.

We are a highly growing company with a current team of 8 people based in Berlin-Charlottenburg combining experienced team members from our previous company with new hires. We value ownership collaboration and a pragmatic low-ego working style.

Join us early and help build a sustainable global prepaid infrastructure.

Tasks

As Founders Associate Finance & Operations you will support the COO and CFO in all key finance operations and regulatory matters. You will take ownership of important projects coordinate internal and external stakeholders and ensure that strategic initiatives are implemented efficiently. The role is project-based developmental and highly hands-on with close proximity to decision-making but without a traditional line function.

Example tasks and projects for the first 12 month include:

• Own projects across treasury FX banking and payment infrastructure including FX provider selection multi-currency setups and payment backup strategies.
• Drive regulatory and licensing initiatives (payment and e-money) manage external advisors and vendors and implement governance access and compliance frameworks.
• Lead audit and internal control projects including external audit coordination ICS documentation and ensuring audit-readiness for banks and enterprise clients.
• Own the setup and development of e-money and AML frameworks under German regulation including external AML providers policies and processes.
• Own high-impact strategic and operational projects directly derived from COO and CFO priorities including analysis execution and operational backup.
• Work cross-functionally with internal teams and act as a key interface to external partners advisors banks and service providers.

Requirements

Must-haves:

• 2 5 years of professional experience in a fast-paced environment (e.g. startup scale-up consulting FinTech banking or operations-heavy roles)
• Proven ability to own and drive projects end-to-end from problem definition to execution
• Strong ability to quickly familiarize yourself with new and complex topics including regulatory financial and operational domains
• Highly structured analytical and execution-oriented working style
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes from scratch
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders (founders senior leadership external partners)
• Excellent communication skills in English (German is a plus)

Nive-to-have

• Solid understanding of finance and operations fundamentals including payments treasury or financial processes
• Experience in a regulated environment (FinTech payments banking e-money)
• Exposure to regulatory compliance audit or AML-related topics
• Experience coordinating external advisors vendors or service providersBackground in management consulting audit transaction services or operations

Benefits

• Work directly with founders who have built scaled and successfully exited (>100 million Euro) a leading FinTech company.
• Take end-to-end ownership of high-impact finance and operations projects and help shape core company infrastructure.
• Build hands-on expertise across finance infrastructure payments and regulatory topics in a fast-growing FinTech.
• Be part of building critical systems and structures from the ground up
• Experience rapid personal growth while working closely with senior leaders partners and advisors across the ecosystem.

Office Policy: Hybrid. We dont have clear rules but generally expect 80% attendance in the office. Not because of control or distrust but because of speed learning and context compound when people work side by side**.**