As a Lead Consultant, you take on one of the most important roles in our team, where new challenges and opportunities await you every day. You will handle larger client projects—ideally utilizing additional resources—and ensure that our clients receive the highest quality at all times. On the projects, you typically act as an interim CFO/Head of Finance, or you will be entrusted with the overall responsibility for conducting our ‘CoCo Finance Startup Assessments’.
Either because our clients are experiencing rapid growth and suitable internal personnel cannot be found on short notice, or because existing employees are temporarily or permanently unavailable, we take on these roles in the startups. With calmness and expertise, you navigate the complexities of the business, thereby significantly supporting the success of the startup. These larger interim roles typically have substantial exposure to management and, in some cases, also within the shareholder group.
As a Lead Consultant, you take overall responsibility for conducting individual CoCo Finance Startup Assessments. With the trained eye of an experienced CFO/Head of Finance, we analyze the finance team, finance processes, collaboration with tax advisors, various tax issues, and, of course, the quality of accounting, controlling, and reporting at the respective target. As a result, we create a report based on predefined audit points in a fixed layout.
Ideally, our Lead Consultants are active on 2-3 projects simultaneously to multiply their impact through the client’s employees, additional service providers, or other colleagues from CoCo. The projects are aligned with your profile (e.g., setting up accounting processes, creating business plans, developing reporting structures, implementing tools, or other special projects) to ensure that our clients consistently receive high-quality results.
You build strong and trusting relationships with our clients on ongoing projects, ensuring that CoCo Finance remains the first point of contact for supplementary and follow-up projects. Your passion for excellence, customer orientation, and commitment will be the secret recipe for this.
You live and breathe startup culture, and you have a great enthusiasm for driving success in this dynamic ecosystem.
You do not shy away from diving into the technical details. Armed with extensive skills and a thirst for knowledge, you feel comfortable working with DATEV, previously unknown accounting tools, complex Excel/GSheet models, and various upstream and downstream finance tools related to accounting, or you are ready to familiarize yourself with them in the necessary depth on short notice.
You are a team leader who inspires those around you to reach new heights.
Challenges? Bring them on! Your ability to think quickly and find creative solutions is unmatched. You are experienced in handling ultimate accountability for results without a direct fallback solution at the highest level.
Your ability to connect with others is legendary. You do not hesitate to reach out to employees, clients, or third parties to clarify any potential issues early on or to prevent them from arising in the first place.
You have a completed degree in Business Administration or a comparable qualification. You have at least 6 years of relevant professional experience and have already gained significant experience as a Head of Finance or Startup CFO. Due to your previous career, you have a very good understanding of many operational areas of finance in a startup (including accounting). You communicate convincingly in both German and English.
Exciting work environment with outstanding development opportunities: The regular rotation among your own projects ensures both professional variety and a steep learning curve.
We value your talent and expertise, and therefore we offer you a package that includes a competitive base salary as well as an unlimited variable component. This is dependent on your own revenue as well as the revenue generated by other colleagues who are working on your projects.
Work-life balance is more than just a buzzword for us. Although the consulting business inevitably experiences certain fluctuations, we place a greater emphasis on flexibility at work and a balanced work-life balance compared to other consulting jobs or typical finance positions.
Please send us your questions and/or your resume to anda.marin (at) cocofinance.de .
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