Financial controller

Overview At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers. A company where team members grow to their full potential. A company that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. A company that creates value for share owners at an extraordinary rate. And a company that does so while adhering to high ethical  pursuit of this objective, we acquire and improve digital businesses, not to sell on, but to own and operate for the long term.

The transformations we make are often deep—designed to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Here, hierarchy is minimal and teams are small and talent-dense. We operate established products with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup. Across the company, we integrate AI deeply into how we work so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other.

For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons is an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress their career at an exceptionally high rate. That’s our promise to such a candidate.

We close on acquisitions, restructure entities, and consolidate financials across jurisdictions—all at a pace that would break most finance teams. We need someone who finds that exciting, not exhausting.

You’ll own the mechanisms that let us understand whether the business is performing as expected, why it isn’t when it doesn’t, and where intervention is needed. You’ll turn budgets, actuals, and forecasts into a clear view of performance, and help ensure that the business scales with rigour. If you naturally move from “what happened?” to “why did it happen, and what should we do about it?”,

you’ll thrive here.
A few examples of your responsibilities
Financial controlling and reporting. Own reliable financial reporting across entities, products, and markets. Analyze deviations from budget, forecast, and prior performance—going beyond the numbers to understand their drivers and help teams act on the insights.
Financial planning and oversight. Track performance against budgets and forecasts, identify risks and opportunities early, and work closely with teams to maintain strong financial discipline.
Performance management. Define and refine the metrics that matter most. Build a performance management approach where accountability is clear and decisions are grounded in data—with AI-assisted analysis doing the heavy lifting on pattern detection.
Controls and processes. Design and strengthen financial processes and internal controls, with a bias toward automation and scalability. Simplify workflows, increase reliability, and raise the overall quality of our financial infrastructure.

What we look for
Reasoning ability. Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles, and structure your ideas sharply. You resist the influence of biases. You identify and take care of the details that matter.
Drive. You’re extremely ambitious in everything you do—and your initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition. You feel deeply responsible for your work. You hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.
Team spirit. You give generously and without the expectation of receiving in return. You support the best idea, not your idea. You’re always happy to get your hands dirty to help your team. You’re reliable, honest, and transparent.
Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.

What we offer
Incredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. You’ll work in small, result-oriented, autonomous teams alongside some of the brightest people in your field.
An exceptional opportunity for growth. We go to great lengths to hire individuals of outstanding potential—then, our priority is to put them in the ideal position to thrive. Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And if you’ve got what it takes, you’ll soon be playing an essential role in major projects, too.
Competitive pay and access to equity in the company. Typically, we offer individuals at the start of their…