Director Finance Platform

Strategy & Planning

• Partner with the Finance Director and Finance Transformation team to establish strategic plans and objectives for the Finance Platform function, and ensure these are effectively cascaded and executed across the team
• Contribute to the development of policies and operating frameworks relevant to Finance
• Play a leading role in creating a high performing finance leadership team and in enabling the broader organization through the many financial areas that underpin the smooth running of the business and execution of new strategic business initiatives.

Accounting & Reporting

• Ensure accounting operations, month-end close, and statutory reporting are delivered accurately and on time across all entities
• Maintain a robust control environment and ensure accounting policies remain appropriate as the business evolves
• Serve as the senior Finance lead for all internal and external audits, including statutory audits across Helsing's legal entities. This also means that you will be taking the lead in our future Audit Committee
• Ensure audit readiness is maintained as a standing operational standard, not a periodic exercise
• Own the resolution of audit findings, ensuring agreed actions are tracked, escalated where necessary, and closed within agreed timescales
• Work closely with Internal Audit, Legal, and Compliance to maintain a robust internal control framework across the Finance Platform function
• Provide the Finance Director and relevant governance bodies with clear and timely reporting on audit status and control effectiveness

Accounts Payable

• Manage accounts payable operations, ensuring invoices and payments are processed accurately, on time, and in line with internal controls and policies
• Drive efficiency and automation across the accounts payable process, including through AI-enabled tooling
• Maintain strong supplier relationships and ensure payment terms are managed in alignment with the company's liquidity and treasury objectives.

Treasury

• Oversee treasury operations including liquidity management, cash flow forecasting, and banking relationships across all relevant entities
• Ensure treasury risk frameworks are fit for purpose and aligned with Helsing's growth trajectory

• A high-performing, well-integrated and engaged Finance Platform team with clear accountability, strong controls, and a culture of continuous improvement
• A strong finance tech stack — anchored in a well-implemented SAP environment — enabling financial excellence and efficiency, with deep AI-driven productivity and benefits
• Financial reporting and planning processes that are timely, accurate, and genuinely useful to business decision-making
• Clean audit outcomes across statutory audits, with no material control weaknesses and a strong track record of timely remediation
• Trusted, credible relationships across the Finance function and with key partners in Product, Legal, and the broader business

• Have significant senior finance leadership experience, with a strong track record of building and managing broad, multi-disciplinary finance functions ideally with experience of massive scaling or taking entity public or track record in the public entity, while also having the confidence and capability to dive into the detail when the situation requires it.
• Have delivered multi-entity IFRS consolidations and hold in-depth knowledge of IFRS 15, alongside strong working knowledge of German GAAP (HGB)
• Have experience collaborating with FP&A and business partners to ensure cost allocation is properly applied across domains and projects
• Have experience delivering successful automation enhancement to finance operating processes, including through AI
• Are comfortable building processes across multi-entity, multi-jurisdictional structures in an international organisation
• Are effective at building alignment in complex, cross-functional settings
• Are proficient in SAP and associated sub-tools, and are comfortable working across ERP environments to manage and improve finance operations
• Are business-fluent in German and fluent in English, enabling seamless collaboration with a distributed, international team and a broad stakeholder group

Note: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.

• Familiarity with the defence sector and associated export regulations
• ACA, CPA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification
• Experience implementing new ERP systems or embedding financial AI tooling into existing workflows
• Experience working with Business Intelligence platforms such as Tableau or Power BI for financial data analysis
• A track record of building or restructuring accounting teams and processes during periods of rapid growth