Finance Manager - Corporate & Accounting

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We're building the future of AI for analysts and scientists, based on a fundamentally new approach to reasoning and knowledge representation. Our team of 40 exceptional researchers and engineers - distributed across 16 countries - are tackling some of the hardest problems in AI. We're in our R&D phase, founder-backed, and scaling rapidly toward commercialization.

We're hiring a Finance Manager - Corporate & Accounting to elevate our financial operations as we transition from R&D to commercialization. You'll own all accounting, compliance, and corporate governance for our Swiss entity, ensuring we have audit-ready books, timely regulatory filings, and the financial foundation to support our ambitious growth. This is a hands‑on role where you'll work closely with external providers (bookkeeper, tax advisors, auditors, legal counsel) while building scalable processes.

You'll be a key partner to our founders and work alongside two other finance team members (FP&A Manager and Workforce Finance Manager).

• Execute month-end processes, including posting accounting adjustments - ensuring high precision and accuracy

• Prepare monthly management accounts and financial statements (Schweizerisches Obligationenrecht)

• Oversee day-to-day bookkeeping through our external provider and automation stack (Xero, Dext, Revolut)

• Maintain chart of accounts and ensure accurate cost allocation across departments/countries

• Oversee bank reconciliations and manage cash positions

• Ensure proper accounting treatment for multi-country payroll (Deel integration)

• Coordinate Swiss corporate tax filings (annual and quarterly) with external tax advisors

• Manage VAT compliance and declarations

• Monitor taxable presence (PE risk) in all jurisdictions, including Sales Tax/VAT and CT obligations

• Oversee Foreign Employer setup compliance (Germany, UK)

• Stay current on tax and regulatory changes

• Lead the annual limited financial audit and prepare for a transition to full financial audits (Swiss OR/ GAAP)

• Build and maintain audit-ready processes and documentation

• Ensure strict adherence to applicable accounting standards (Swiss OR/GAAP)

• Design, implement and monitor robust internal controls

• Lead the development of the company risk register, including identifying and mitigating cross-functional risks

• Support future SOC2 certification (own finance-related controls)

• Shareholder management:
  Maintain share register, prepare and execute AGM, manage shareholder documentation

• Annual capital increase process:
  Coordinate funding rounds (legal docs, filings, share issuance)

• Corporate compliance:
  Ensure Swiss corporate law compliance, work with legal counsel on governance matters

• Manage the current corporate structure and own the evaluation and execution of setting up new subsidiaries as the business scales

• Board support:
  Prepare materials for board meetings, ensure proper documentation and filings

• Maintain and optimize the AP and approval workflow, and payment execution

• Manage vendor relationships and contracts (working with legal on contract reviews)

• Ensure timely payments and maintain vendor files

• Audit and reconcile Deel payroll submissions across 16 countries monthly

• Catch errors before they reach employees

• Track allowances and reimbursements (sick leave, benefits, expenses) across jurisdictions

• Ensure payroll accounting entries are accurate

• Provide payroll data to Finance Manager for forecasting

• 2-4 years in high-performance environments such as Big 4 audit/tax + industry experience, OR top-tier management consulting (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) with a finance focus

• Why a high-performance environment matters to us:
  You've been trained in operational excellence, you work with precision under pressure, and you know what "audit-ready"…