(Senior) Director Finance

(Senior) Director Finance (m/f/d)| Fulltime | in Germany | Remote

Who We Are

vialytics is revolutionizing how cities manage road infrastructure. Our AI-powered road management system, combining intelligent software with a simple smartphone, enables municipalities to detect road damage, prioritize maintenance, and make smarter infrastructure decisions. Founded in 2018, we have rapidly scaled across Europe and the U.S., supporting 900+ municipalities in 7 countries. Backed by a $10M Series A, vialytics is a fast-growing scale-up with ambitious international growth plans.

This Role

This role is based in Germany. As (Senior) Director Finance, you will lead the entire Finance function below the CFO, covering both Accounting & Finance Operations as well as FP&A & Corporate Performance Management (Controlling). This is a scale-and-transform mandate, not a reporting position. You will build a dependable, scalable, AI-enabled finance function that delivers trustworthy numbers, forward-looking planning and commercially impactful decisions, while keeping human accountability for controls, payments and statutory reporting. You will lead a team of three today and shape the target set-up through a mix of new hires and AI agents.

💼 Your Key Responsibilities  

As (Senior) Director Finance, you will:

• Lead the entire finance function (Accounting, Controlling, FP&A, Treasury) across all markets: DACH, France, US.

• Lead and automate the monthly close and group consolidation with agreed deadlines, clear ownership and a full audit trail.

• Build a rolling forecast and budget process, including scenario modeling for topline growth, headcount and runway across all markets.

• Improve management and board reporting around financial and SaaS metrics, jointly with Data & Analytics.

• Improve cash conversion and cash forecasting against measurable baselines and targets.

• Own statutory accounting, group consolidation, transfer pricing and audit topics across our multi-entity structure.

• Build out an agentic finance operating model with agentic and non-agentic team responsibilities, identify capability gaps and drive team development, the agentic roadmap and the hiring plan.

• Own and streamline our ERP and finance processes (ideally NetSuite) across all key processes such as O2C, P2P and R2R and prioritise automation opportunities.

• Pilot at least two AI-supported finance workflows with documented human review and controls.

• Prepare investor-ready data, models and data-room inputs to support the CFO in fundraising.

• Talk performance, not only numbers: challenge the CFO and commercial stakeholders constructively, making financial implications of performance clear to all stakeholders.

• Own treasury and cash management, including liquidity planning, banking relationships and payment runs.

• Build up cost controlling: cost-centre and personnel-cost reporting and the commercial evaluation of procurement decisions.

🌟 We would be the perfect match if you

Must have:

• At least 5 years proven leadership across accounting, close, controlling / corporate performance management, planning & forecasting, including scaling teams and processes.

• At least 10 years strong hands-on FP&A experience: strategic finance, planning & budgeting, rolling forecasts, scenario modelling and performance reporting (financial and SaaS metrics).

• Leadership experience at a fast-growing European SaaS, fintech, or scale-up, or in a Big Four consulting environment in audit, transaction advisory, or CFO consulting

• Experience with statutory accounting (HGB, optional: French GAAP, US-GAAP), group consolidation, audit, transfer pricing and multi-entity setups.

• ERP and process ownership (ideally NetSuite) across R2R, P2P and O2C.

• Fundraising support, investor reporting