Your Job
The Basics:
Giant Swarm is looking for a Master of Coin :) You’ll be our ‘financial face’ and deal with ‘all the things coins’ which means Corporate Finance, Controlling, Tax, and Accounting. We could have called the Job title ‘Head of Finance’ but there is no finance team, yet.
Giant Swarm is a fast-growing open source infrastructure management platform used by modern enterprises. Our vision is to empower developers around the world to ship great products. We are a diverse, fully remote (since 2014) and an experienced team that is growing and spread across Europe — with a headquarters in Cologne.
In short: You bolster all of our Finance and Accounting processes and feel responsible for them. You work strategically and operationally.
You properly build out the accounting/tax side of the organization and processes around monthly accounting/reporting, revenue recognition, payroll, insurance, and taxes as well as shareholder reportings.
You manage external bookkeepers, lawyers, tax consultants, and payroll providers.
You oversee accounts payable and receivable and take care of Cashflow Management.
You set the direction for Giant Swarm's accounting and business systems to ensure proper automation. You being the single point of failure is not the goal.
You proactively identify areas to build and improve financial operations; being pragmatic is helpful here.
You’ll take care of our ESOP Program and develop better or new ways so that our employees can participate in our success.
About us
Every new team member changes the team. We love to learn from each other and we are looking for people who know things we don’t.
Becoming part of Giant Swarm means that, by extension, you also become part of the Cloud Native community. We actively contribute to upstream projects and our quarterly hackathons will give you space to work on out-of-the-box projects. Occasionally, when we, as a team, want to fully focus on one project, we scratch all meetings and routines for a certain time to better focus during our hive-sprints.
Continuous learning is important to us - we foster this through bi-yearly personal development talks, a budget for training/certifications/coaching as well as regular feedback talks and workshops. Our teams are cross- functional and collaboration is key.
Nothing crazy, but useful Basics: We don't count holidays but set a minimum number; You choose your own hard- and software; As a company that has almost, if not more, kids than employees, family-friendliness is crucial to us and paid parental leave is a no-brainer; We pay monthly perks that cover your costs for working remotely; We meet twice a year as an entire company and (if possible) see conferences as an important place to catch up with team members; We aim to be fully transparent (finance, salaries) unless it hurts people and trust you, based on this to make the best decisions
We failed in exactly describing our way to approach important company elements that can be described with ‘buzzwords’ such as agile mindset, cross-functional teams, self-organization, value of the individual or trust & teamwork. However, we truly care about them, we live them and we constantly iterate on them. Some snippets about how we do this are posted in our blog but by far not all of them.
Important note: We are not hiring job descriptions. We hire humans. :) We welcome applications from everybody, regardless ethnic or national origin, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation or age.
