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Finance Team

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📸 Team Snapshot

Team Mission

Our Finance team at HelloBetter aims to provide accurate and timely financial information, support business decision-making, and ensure financial stability. We are dedicated to maximising profitability, managing risk, and enhancing shareholder value through efficient financial management enhancing our ability to achieve HelloBetter’s vision.

Core Responsibilities

Accounting

  • Approval workflows
  • Reimbursements and spent management
  • Month end and year end close
  • Working closely with external partners and auditors

FP&A

  • Planning includes Budget & Forecast process including stakeholder mgmt
  • Analysis part includes Monthly Reporting (Mgmt, Cost Center Owners, Investors), Unit Economics, and ownership of financial KPIs (including attribution models and BI implementation)

Treasury

Fundraising (Equity and Debt)

Team Structure

Team Size: 2

Roles:

Role
Description
Accountant
Bookkeeping, month end close, year end close, VAT reporting, spent management
Finance Manager
FP&A, Treasury and support in Fundraising

Key Skills: Our competency framework focuses on Financial & Accounting Expertise, Analytics & Technology Proficiency and Effective Stakeholder Management.

Special Technologies: DATEV, Excel, GSheet, Metabase.

💞 Team Dynamics

How We Collaborate

Collaboration Tools

Slack, Asana.

Meeting Cadence

30min weekly with Ops, People, Regulatory Affairs & Legal on Monday, 15min Finance Daily on Tue-Fr

Fun Facts and Team Bonding

Team Building Activities

As part of the larger Operations team, we meet regularly for both remote (we have some remote-only colleagues in our team) and on-site team events in Berlin. So far we organised Virtual Game Nights where everyone ordered food and we played various games. A highlight was GeoGuessr, for sure. When we meet in Berlin, we usually go out for dinner and drinks. One memorable evening was at the waterfront at Freischwimmer!

Favorite Moments

In recent years, one of our most memorable achievements has been bringing Accounting in-house. From selecting the right partners and technology stack to hiring the team and establishing robust reporting and FP&A processes, this endeavor was challenging but undeniably the right decision. It has provided us with higher quality financial data, expedited month-end closing processes, and full control over all aspects of our financials. Quarterly audits supported this transition, helping us to maintain exceptionally high standards with a very limited headcount. Overall, we are very proud to have implemented scalable processes that can support our growth without proportionate increases in team costs.

Fun Facts

We sometimes work across German and Japan time zones, allowing for very long service times and fast responses for any financial-related requests from other teams.

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