Financial Controller
Are you a Financial Controller ready to take your career to the next level? Join WorkFlex, a fast-growing European startup, and make an impact from day one!
➡️ About the role
Successful businesses think globally – but complex compliance challenges create significant barriers to global operations, forcing teams to spend vast amounts of time, money, and energy on administration instead of strategic priorities.
Traditional compliance approaches are too slow, vague, and expensive for modern business dynamics. That's why we've built the platform that automates compliance and duty of care for business travel, workations, and international assignments.
Our vision: A world where global business knows no borders – where compliance is effortless, so growth has no limits. To fuel that vision, we recently closed a €37M Series B — and we're now building the team to match our ambition.
Your role in this mission: We're seeking an experienced Financial Controller to take full ownership of our finance function end-to-end — from accounting and billing to reporting and systems. You'll work closely with our Head of Finance, gradually taking over day-to-day ownership, with the opportunity to grow into a broader finance leadership role. This is not a purely controlling role: you'll work directly in the details, resolve issues, and continuously improve how finance operates across our three entities.
🎯 What you will do
Accounting & closing
Own the monthly close across all three entities (NL, DE, EG), including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, prepayments, and deferred revenue
Maintain and improve accounting in Exact Online, ensuring a clean and accurate balance sheet and P&L
Billing & revenue
Own Chargebee — managing billing, invoicing, and VAT logic to ensure accurate invoices and revenue data
Review contract and subscription changes from the Customer Success team and align billing with accounting and revenue recognition
Spend management & finance ops
Own Pleo and expense flows — reviewing expenses, ensuring correct booking, and overseeing AP/AR, payment runs, and collections
Ensure clean, structured finance operations across the board
Intercompany & group setup
Own intercompany invoicing and transfer pricing, and reconcile balances across entities
Coordinate with external accountants in Germany and Egypt, and take ownership of their performance — including improving or changing providers when needed
Reporting & consolidation
Own entity-level and consolidated reporting, ensuring accurate and timely consolidation across all entities
Improve reporting quality for management and investors
Systems, automation & data
Improve and automate finance processes, leveraging AI and tooling to reduce manual work
Optimize system integrations (Exact, Chargebee, Pleo) and improve our chart of accounts and reporting structure
⭐ What you need to succeed
4–7 years of experience in accounting or financial controlling, preferably in a startup or scale-up environment
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field
Strong accounting fundamentals — debits/credits, balance sheet thinking, monthly close experience
Comfortable working hands-on in systems and switching between high-level thinking and detailed execution
Strong Excel skills; experience with Exact Online, Chargebee, or Pleo is a plus
You take full ownership, fix issues yourself, and continuously improve processes over time
🚀 Why join us at WorkFlex
Contribute to building the future of the fastest-growing HR tech startup in Germany backed by prominent customers such as Scout24, Vodafone, BioNTech, and others, as well as funding from top-tier VC and angel investors.
Competitive salary and VSOPs (Virtual Stock Options) to share in our success.
A monthly budget of €200 to spend on 🏢 co-working space and/or 🏃♀️ sports subscriptions.
Work from anywhere in a remote-only company and go on workations for up to 183 days a year.
Merit-based culture with substantial growth opportunities.
Trust-based work – organize your own schedule. We want to celebrate results, not hours spent working.
Collaborative team culture where everyone's input is valued to shape sales efforts, approaches, and processes.
We may use AI-assisted tools to support parts of our recruitment process. These tools help our team review applications more efficiently, and all hiring decisions are made by humans.
- Department
- Finance
- Role
- Financial Controller
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
About WorkFlex
Founded in 2021, WorkFlex was created to transform how companies manage international travel compliance. Instead of relying on expensive legal consultations and slow processes, our platform makes it easy to stay compliant across business travel, remote work, and expat scenarios – automated, scalable, and stress-free.
Today, over 100,000 trips are processed annually on WorkFlex, and our team continues to grow globally. We’re proud to support 500+ companies including BioNTech, Vodafone, dm, Flix, and Scout24 – and we’re just getting started.