Finance and Controlling Manager

Join the Wingtra team and become part of this venture-backed robotics scale-up with aninternational and diverse team of 170+ dedicated Wingtranauts, and growing. Founded atETH Zurich more than nine years ago, our high-performance WingtraOne drone iscontinuously improved by a world-class team of 40+ engineers. By now our customers havegrown from survey and mapping professionals to scientists, humanitarian organizations, andenvironmentalists. They fly WingtraOne for more than a thousand hours on a monthly basis.This is only the beginning—together we can achieve much more.

This fast growth requires solid financial planning, controlling and management. That’s whereyou come in. You'll join and help further building up the finance team covering all aspects of finance, compliance, legal affairs, insurance, office management, administration, andmore. According to your seniority/proficiency you will lead, support, co-manage or own thefollowing tasks:

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Responsibilities

• Build up new processes and the new Wingtra financial team
• Manage financial closings CH/US/HR including consolidation and reporting
• Design our new budgeting and reporting process to reflect the increased product portfolio of HW and SW products, including recurring revenue streams in a global setup
• Lead finance related projects and continuously improve our finance setup and processes in line with Wingtra’s growth
• Evaluate and execute integration of finance process into our ERP as a key stakeholder
• Reporting to Senior leadership, Investors and other relevant stakeholders
• Be a finance business partner for internal and external stakeholders
• Support other departments with models and guidelines

Requirements

• Higher education degree in the field of finance or accounting, or relevant certification in this area
• You thrive by learning, growing and taking responsibility
• You have your strong suit working conceptually but you are able to jump in for actual accounting tasks if needed
• Capability to work in multinational environments 
• You contribute to a good group/work dynamic, in which people enjoy performing at their best
• Relevant multi-year professional experience in international finance, accounting and controlling
• Financial working experience in a industrial production environment is a plus
• Solid understanding of accounting and finance according to OR and other frameworks
• Structured, reliable and precise work ethic, yet able to find pragmatic solutions when needed
• Business fluency in English and German is a must
• Excellent Excel knowledge and ability to work with complex spreadsheets
• Experience with east european (ideally croatian) rules and regulations is a plus
• You are used to working in a scale-up environment, including a high degree of impact of your actions and the ability to accept a limited maturity of existing processes.

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If you enjoy teamwork more than being the individual superhero, and if you thrive in afeedback-driven culture and an exciting, unconventional yet structured, and progressivescale-up environment, we would love to hear from you.