Chief Financial Officer

Location: Full Onsite. Berlin Mitte, Germany.

The company is the AI-driven trade platform transforming industrial supply in infrastructure, energy, and construction materials. It connects vetted suppliers across Asia, Europe, and the GCC region with local demand through a single integrated platform.

Its proprietary AI stack digitizes and automates the full lifecycle of materials trade — from procurement and pricing to inventory, logistics, and embedded financing — replacing thousands of manual, relationship-driven processes with real-time orchestration.

Buyers gain instant quotes, reliable availability, and predictable delivery through a unified operating system. Suppliers benefit from accurate forecasting, disciplined demand management, and seamless integration into cross-border fulfillment networks. The company partners with leading brands to run both dropship and cross-dock fulfillment motions for large-scale transactions, turning global supply chains into predictable, repeatable, software-like workflows.

Backed by top-tier investors and institutional financing partners, the company has scaled to triple-digit-million GMV, operates across six international markets, and is rapidly expanding toward profitability. With a team of 80+ people across Berlin (HQ) and Asia, it is building the world’s first industrial-grade AI operating system for materials — redefining how global trade works in one of the world’s largest and most essential industries.

As Chief Financial Officer
, you own the financial architecture of the company.

You are a core member of the executive leadership team and a close sparring partner to the CEO. Your mandate is to design, operate, and continuously evolve a financial system that enables scale, resilience, and capital efficiency in a complex, capital-intensive operating environment.

This role blends capital markets rigor
, company-building execution
, and strategic M&A leadership
. You will oversee equity and debt, accounting and governance, cash and risk – while shaping a financing and acquisition model that is tightly interwoven with the company’s technology platform and long-term growth strategy.

This is a system-building CFO position with active M&A responsibility
. This is not a reporting role. The role is on-site in Berlin
.

• Own the end-to-end financial operating system of the company, including P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and working capital.

• Translate operational reality – orders, logistics supplier payouts, financing flows – into accurate, decision-ready financial insight.

• Design financial structures that scale with transaction volume, geography, and organizational complexity.

• Ensure financial transparency, accuracy, and speed without introducing unnecessary bureaucracy.

• Own and continuously evolve the company’s capital structure across growth phases.

• Design and implement a scalable financing model that supports both organic growth and selective M&A, combining:

  • venture and growth equity

  • senior and subordinated debt

  • working capital, inventory, and structured finance instruments

• Develop a layered, modular capital stack that can flex between organic scaling and acquisition activity without destabilizing the business.

• Evaluate trade-offs between growth, dilution, leverage, and acquisition optionality.

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with banks, institutional lenders, and investors to ensure transaction readiness at all times.

• Partner with the CEO on defining the company’s M&A strategy
  , including target profiles, strategic rationale, and capital allocation priorities.

• Lead the financial workstream across the full M&A lifecycle:

  • target evaluation and financial diligence

  • valuation, structuring, and deal economics

  • financing strategy (equity, debt, or hybrid)

  • integration planning from a financial and operational perspective

• Ensure acquisitions strengthen the platform, improve capital efficiency, and integrate cleanly into the company’s financial and technological systems.

• Establish repeatable M&A processes that allow the…