Finance Manager

Finance Manager

4500 - 5500 / month (depending on experience / based on full-time gross)

5 days per week Start ASAP Amsterdam based

About Wakuli

We love great coffee. Thats why were building an alternative coffee industry that actually works. For both farmers and consumers.

How By working directly with farmer groups around the world. We set up transparent traceable export lines roast the beans ourselves and sell the coffee straight to customers. So no unnecessary middlemen or resellers. Those short supply chains make sure farmers always get a good price.

Youll find us in 21 (and counting) bars across the Netherlands and online through our own platform. For customers that means freshly roasted specialty coffee thats easy to access relatively affordable and just seriously delicious.

We are building the new coffee brand of the 21st century with a team of like-minded innovators from all over the world. And were looking for you.

Your role

Were looking for our first dedicated finance hire: a Finance Manager who takes ownership of how we close report forecast and fund the business as we scale toward 50 stores and our Series B.

Today finance sits with our founder. This role exists to change that: to run a tight monthly close give us cash and margin visibility we can trust and build the reporting and tooling that lets the whole team see their own numbers. Its hands-on and broad: youll go from journal entry-level detail to the financial model to finance strategy and the investor data room often in the same week. If you want to build a finance function rather than maintain one this is it.

Youll report directly to Lukas (Founder) and work closely with our accounting specialist our external accountants and our S&OP team.

Job requirements

What youll do:

Run a tight monthly close & reporting

• Own the monthly close end-to-end: draft management accounts by WD5 final by WD8

• Produce the management reporting pack: P&L gross-margin bridge opex headcount and KPIs with variance commentary

• Deliver a monthly per-store P&L pack
  

Keep cash and margins under control

• Maintain a rolling 13-week cash flow refreshed weekly

• Run the monthly COGS-to-GL reconciliation so our margins are trustworthy

• Oversee the AP/AR cycle (run day-to-day by our accounting specialist)

• Build the annual budget with the founder and keep a rolling quarterly forecast
  

Partner with the founder on strategy & Series B

• Support the founder in building and maintaining the central financial model

• Help produce the quarterly investor reporting pack and keep an always-on data room ready for due diligence

• Put numbers behind the big calls: store openings pricing hiring plans capex
  

Build the reporting & KPI layer for the team

• Give store managers ops S&OP and marketing self-serve dashboards for the KPIs that matter

• Define a single source of truth for company KPIs: who owns what how its measured target vs actual

• Automate at least one manual recurring report or process each quarter (Odoo BI tooling scheduled exports)

What were looking for

This is a role for someone who wants to build not babysit. Youre as comfortable going into accounting detail as you are sitting in the model and youre excited by the idea of shaping a finance function from scratch in a fast-growing mission-driven company.

You bring:

• A strong analytical finance foundation built in one (or a mix) of: transaction services or financial due diligence; M&A or corporate finance; startup fundraising; PE or growth equity; or financial controlling

• Roughly 25 years of relevant experience depending on background

• Genuine excitement about building a finance function from the ground up and choosing impact and ownership over a corporate paycheck

• Happy to roll up your sleeves on the bookkeeping not just the strategic finance modelling

• Fluency in English (Dutch is a plus)

Nice to have:

• Retail hospitality or FMCG exposure

• Familiarity with Dutch GAAP

• Experience preparing a data room or running a DD process

• Having built finance tooling BI dashboards or automation

• Hands-on ERP experience (we run Odoo)

What we offer:

• A key role in a fast-scaling impact company with a real path to grow as we head toward Series B and 50 stores

• The chance to build the finance function from day one

• A monthly salary between 4500 and 5500

• After your first year the opportunity to share in the upside through our participation plan

• A team of 120 impact-driven colleagues from 30 countries

• Direct access to our coffee producers and the full coffee value chain

• And of course unlimited good coffee

How to apply

Wed love to hear from you! To apply please provide:

• A brief motivation letter.

• An up-to-date CV.

Once weve received your application well get back to you within 2 weeks.

We strongly encourage internal growth and development opportunities across the business and welcome employees exploring new roles internally. While some stages may differ from the external process internal applicants will still be expected to participate in the recruitment process to assess suitability and role fit. We also ask that employees inform their current manager before submitting an application.