Chief Financial Officer

<p>Advise. Invest. Build. Meet ALAIKA — a new kind of Financial Services firm — globally scaling, headquartered in Munich. <strong>The work is hard. The bar is high. You own the finance function end-to-end, build the automated backbone a scaling firm runs on, and thrive in it.</strong></p> <h2>About ALAIKA</h2> <p>At ALAIKA, our vision is to build the future of Financial Services with three brands under one roof — Advisory (Strategy Consulting), Capital (Private Equity), Building (Company Builder). Right now, we are in the midst of building our trojan horse ALAIKA Advisory.</p> <p>The ambition: building the leading Financial-Services-specific entrepreneurial holding — Fortune 500 access, PE discipline, Silicon Valley technology-depth and thinking. <strong>Three networks that compound and multiply.</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>One industry. </strong>Financial Services. Nothing else.</li> <li><strong>One focus. </strong>The intersection of business and technology — across Strategic Transformations, AI & Data Intelligence, and Cybersecurity.</li> <li><strong>One goal. </strong>Being the go-to partner for the world's leading Fortune 500 financial services companies — and the ones we might help build into that.</li> </ul> <p>Founded in October 2022 by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-von-geyr-374b81/"><strong>Johanna von Geyr</strong></a> (build-up and led Financial Services Practice for a NASDAQ-listed strategy consultancy) and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/harald-braunstein/"><strong>Harald Braunstein</strong></a> (serial entrepreneur with exits incl. IPO), we bring together deep functional domain expertise and networks in global Financial Services, with a proven track record in building, scaling, and investing in leading software product companies. </p> <p>Curious what ALAIKA is all about? Explore our <a href="https://www.alaika-advisory.com/">website</a> and <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pX8HFTMUueKa5bTrP3k22kR1kFjq2Ot9/view">introduction deck</a>.</p> <p><strong>Join the movement — apply now.</strong></p> <h2>The role and what you will work on</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Own.</strong> Own the finance function end-to-end. Accounting, controlling, reporting, tax, and the annual financial statements — and the judgment behind them. The numbers are yours: <strong>accurate, on time, founder-ready,</strong> and built to help the business decide.</li> <li><strong>Lead.</strong> Build the finance team from the ground up. Hire, steer, develop. <strong>Multiply the output</strong> of everyone in it, not just your own.</li> <li><strong>Build.</strong> We're scaling fast, and the finance backbone has to scale with us: systems, processes, controls, forecasting. Build a genuinely automated operation, not a manual one held together by effort. You don't inherit a finished machine —<strong> you build it.</strong></li> <li><strong>Steer. </strong>Own the forward view: planning, budgeting, forecasting. Track cash, runway, and burn. You see what's coming and steer for it.</li> <li><strong>People. </strong>Own the systems that pay and grow the team: compensation, bonus structures, performance reviews, the people operation behind them. In a firm that hires the best, how you reward them is a competitive weapon. <strong>You build it, you make it work.</strong></li> <li><strong>Govern.</strong> Own risk, compliance, and controls as the firm scales across borders. Own the external relationships that come with them: auditors, tax advi