Description du poste
📊 Want to build the finance function of a fast-growing consumer brand from scratch, and sit right next to the founders when the big decisions get made? Then read on. 🐱
At The Better Cat, we are reinventing the pet food market. 🐾 We are a VC-backed startup (backed by FoodLabs, among others) that has become the fastest growing cat food company in Germany and won the Fressnapf Innovation Award in 2024. We sell D2C, on Amazon and increasingly in retail.
This is our first dedicated finance hire, reporting directly to our co-founder Niklas. The role is a real mix: part finance business partner, giving the founding team accurate and timely numbers to decide on, and part hands-on operational finance, building the close and working with our external accountant and tax advisor. We are AI-first and automate wherever we can, so you will have the freedom (and the expectation) to build finance processes the modern way.
TasksFinancial Planning & Analysis
Own forecasting, budgeting and performance analysis.
Analyse revenue, gross margin, contribution margin, costs and working capital.
Support pricing, promotion, product mix, channel and product portfolio decisions.
Business Partnering & Decision Support
Be the primary finance contact for our Growth & Marketing and Supply Chain teams.
Translate financial and operational KPIs into clear insights and actions.
Challenge assumptions, connect operational decisions to P&L and cash-flow outcomes, and find opportunities to improve profitability an