This page is maintained by the Finance Team
- 📸 Team Snapshot
- Team Mission
- Core Responsibilities
- Team Structure
- 💞 Team Dynamics
- How We Collaborate
- Collaboration Tools
- Meeting Cadence
- Fun Facts and Team Bonding
- Team Building Activities
- Favorite Moments
- Fun Facts
- Join Us!
📸 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 (currently looking for our a 3rd team member!)
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: Moss, DATEV, Excel, GSheet, Metabase.
💞 Team Dynamics
How We Collaborate
Collaboration Tools
Slack, Asana, Leapsome
Meeting Cadence
- weekly 30min JF within Finance team (managed via Leapsome)
- bi-weekly 30min meeting with Operations, People, Legal and Regulatory Affairs
- For company wide Rituals, please check out this page.
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.