HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?

As our Finance Manager, you will be part of the Finance team and report directly to the VP Finance & Legal. You will become an integral part of our financial planning and analysis, month-end closing, and annual and quarterly budgeting process, and interact closely with various department heads on matters ranging from ad-hoc analysis to business function KPIs. You will be expected to proactively and continuously develop process improvements. The Finance team is responsible for the company’s financial affairs and legal matters.

ABOUT US

Hygraph is a dynamic Berlin-based startup that, in its recent round, raised $35M in funding. Driven by our core values of innovation, reliability, empowerment, agility, and scalability, Hygraph empowers thousands of developers and content teams to create dynamic digital experiences that engage their customers effortlessly. At Hygrap,h we’re building a Headless Content Management system (CMS) that provides a flexible and scalable platform for managing and delivering content across various platforms seamlessly. We are trusted to manage content for teams from over 50,000 organizations like Dr. Oetker, Shure, Samsung, Ashley Furniture, Telenor, Philips, and Gamescom.
You will be part of a remote-first and globally distributed team who are committed to working collaboratively, transparently, and passionately. We are an international and friendly team spread across 20 countries. We believe in a remote-first approach where everyone is encouraged to do their best from wherever they are and work together with transparency, accountability, and ownership. We learn continuously through feedback and have a yearly learning budget to attend training and conferences.

• Act as a bridge between finance controlling and FP&A activities.
• Responsible for monthly closes, compliance, forecasting, budgeting, and business partnering.
• Create and prepare monthly management and investor reporting (including target/actual comparisons, variance analysis, and commentary), support the preparation of materials for board or management meetings, and similar occasions.
• Work closely with the accounting team during month-end closing, ensuring the accuracy of financials.
• Develop and improve financial models used for FP&A.
• Prepare and execute budget and business planning for the various planning cycles, focusing on optimising short- and long-term cash and liquidity forecasting.
• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders and collaborate with other business functions to lead deep dives on KPIs / P&L items.
• Perform ad-hoc business and financial analysis to support recommendations to senior management.
• Work closely with the BI department to map the financial data and analyses in a BI system. You will be responsible for developing new finance dashboards.
• Manage and support digital transformation projects aiming at automating and optimising processes.
• Support with audits of financial statements.