Business Controller (all genders) — with a path to Finance Lead at myhotel.team GmbH

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

08 Oct, 26

Salary

6000.0

Posted On

10 Jul, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Financial Controlling, Accounting, Liquidity Planning, SaaS Metrics, DATEV, HGB Accounting, Financial Modeling, Budget Planning, Variance Analysis, Cash Forecasting, KPI Reporting, German Language, English Language, Process Documentation, Stakeholder Management

Industry

Description

Your mission Your first 12 months — operational and hands-on: You work closely with our Accounting Manager on monthly, quarterly, and annual close: account reconciliation and clean-up in DATEV, AR/AP reconciliation, accruals and provisions. You own liquidity planning: rolling cash forecast, weekly cash update, payment runs, and receivables management. You produce monthly reporting: actual vs. plan, variance analysis, commentary, and the C-level view. You support budget planning and the in-year forecast cycles: gathering inputs, consolidating them, and pressure-testing the assumptions that come out of the business. You prepare KPIs and materials for reporting to shareholders and our advisory board. You bring structure to public funding and compliance topics: grant reporting, deadlines, evidence, documentation. You act as a sparring partner for Sales and Customer Delivery on deal economics, contribution margins, and pricing questions. You build processes and controls that don't exist yet — and document them so they work without you. After that — when you and we are ready: You gradually take ownership of the forecast and the planning model. You lead the finance team (Accounting Manager, Accounting Assistant, and further roles over time). You evolve the finance function from reporting to steering: governance, approval processes, forecast accuracy. You become the standing counterpart for shareholders, tax advisors, and auditors. Your profile 4 - 6 years in controlling, accounting, corporate finance, transaction services, or a finance role at a growing software company. You've worked with DATEV and can navigate a German chart of accounts without a chaperone. A solid grasp of HGB accounting is assumed. Liquidity planning isn't a theoretical concept to you — you've owned a cash forecast whose accuracy someone cared about. You are comfortable with financial models: you read them, stress-test them, and find the spot where an assumption stops holding. You know SaaS metrics such as ARR, NRR, CAC, and churn not as vocabulary but as a system where each one drives the others. You communicate numbers so that non-finance people can make a decision — in writing and in the room. You work independently in an environment where not every process exists yet. Some you will build before you can use them. You want to lead a team eventually — and you're honest enough with yourself to know you're not there yet. Fluent German and English. Nice to have: Experience in travel tech, or B2B SaaS with enterprise customers. Exposure to audit, due diligence, or public funding programmes. Why us? We are the technology company rethinking group and event sales in hospitality. What runs today through inboxes, spreadsheets and phone calls, our platform Rocket turns into one continuous, AI-supported process — from the first enquiry to the signed contract. European hotel groups already run their group sales on it. What that means for you: you work with AI, not despite it. People who join us give feedback that shapes product decisions — and sooner or later come to understand why one prompt works better than another. And because we are growing fast, a lot here is still taking shape. Sometimes the honest answer is “we’re still building that.” That is exactly where the opportunity lies: you will find open space rather than finished structures, and what you build here will carry your signature. What we offer Work with real AI technology at international level — not as a pilot project, but as our business model. Genuine room to shape things. Your ideas do not land in a suggestion box; they land in the next iteration. A short path to the management team. Decisions take days, not committee rounds. Growth you are part of. We are building the company’s next chapter — with roles, responsibility and prospects that did not exist a year ago. Leipzig as your primary base, with regular time in the office and flexible remote work. Hybrid models are everyday practice here, not the exception. Permanent contract, full-time. Performance bonuses for demonstrable results. Multi-day team events in places that are actually fun. Our hiring process Intro interview — we get to know each other, and you learn where we stand and where we are heading. Case study or technical study, depending on the role — a real problem from our day-to-day that we work through together. Interview with your future manager and, depending on the position, with our founders. From the first conversation to a decision takes at most two weeks. And you will hear from us either way — including when it is not a fit this time. About us MICE DESK is the leading technology partner in global group and convention sales – and is developing the first agentic operating system for the hospitality industry. Our core product, Rocket, automates the entire group and convention sales process: from analysing enquiries and checking availability to integrating revenue data, creating quotes and finalising contracts. What currently takes hotels an average of two hours, Rocket completes in minutes. What makes us unique: We don’t just build the platform. Where required, we also support our clients through a dedicated booking centre – our MICE DESK Crew – which provides hotels with direct support from experienced MICE professionals. AI and people working as a true partnership – not as a compromise.

Responsibilities

Manage operational finance tasks including monthly closing, liquidity planning, and reporting while supporting budget cycles and KPI preparation. Transition into a leadership role overseeing the finance team and steering the company's financial governance.