Head of Finance

Summary

We’re looking for a Head of Finance to build and run the finance function at HeyCharge. You’ll own everything from month-end close and multi-entity controllership to FP&A, cap table management, and the financial side of our active Series A. You’ll partner with the CEO on capital strategy, investor relations, and board engagement — and partner with our Program Manager on grant cost reporting and audit prep.

This is a senior, hands-on hire — the first dedicated finance leader at the company. You won’t have a team to delegate to (yet). You’ll be both the architect of the finance stack and the person actually closing the books in months one and two. The “team” comes once you’ve built the foundation; the foundation is what we’re hiring for.

About HeyCharge

HeyCharge makes EV charging work in places it was never supposed to — underground garages, multi-tenant buildings, and any other concrete-and-rebar environment where cellular signal goes to die. Our offline-first SecureCharge platform uses Bluetooth for local session authentication and Zigbee mesh for inter-charger load management and cloud sync. No internet required at the charger; no compromise on reliability or billing accuracy.

We’re Munich-headquartered with team members across Germany, Ukraine, and the US, selling into property managers, utilities, and OEMs across Europe, the US, and Latin America. Our partners include Vonovia (Europe’s largest residential landlord), Easee and Emobi. We’re backed by Y Combinator and EU innovation funding, with a culture that’s Google-rooted on engineering, AI-first and automation-first on operations, and allergic to bureaucracy that doesn’t earn its keep.

Responsibilities

• Controllership & close. Own monthly close, statutory reporting (HGB for the German entity; GAAP-aligned reporting for the US entity), audit prep, and the financial-controls discipline that gets us through every external review without surprises.
• FP&A and planning. Build the forecasting, scenario modeling, and KPI tracking that informs hiring, pricing, capital allocation, and runway decisions. Quarterly board materials are yours.
• Fundraising support. Partner with the CEO on our active Series A — data room, financial diligence, investor reporting cadence, equity/cap table management (Carta), and the messy moments where finance, legal, and commercial decisions intersect.
• Operational finance. Streamline billing, collections, vendor management, expense workflows, and revenue recognition across the AssetCo/OpCo structure. Find and remove the manual finance work nobody else has time to fix.
• Compliance & legal entity hygiene. Tax filings (DE + US), transfer pricing, intercompany agreements, statutory deadlines. Coordinate external advisors (Steuerberater, US tax counsel) so we never miss a date.
• Grant cost reporting. Coordinate with our Program Manager on EIC Accelerator financial reporting (Form C, audit prep, periodic reports). You own the numbers; they own the narrative.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (Steuerberater, Wirtschaftsprüfer, CPA, ACCA, or equivalent). Big-4 training is a plus but not required.
• 7+ years in finance roles, with at least 3 in a Series A–C scaleup that actually ran day-to-day finance operations (not just FP&A or strategic-finance roles in mature companies).
• Multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction experience. You’ve consolidated German + US (or German + non-EU) entities before, navigated transfer pricing, and survived at least one cross-border audit.
• HGB and GAAP-aligned reporting in your active toolkit. IFRS familiarity is a plus.
• Fundraising track record. You’ve been on the finance side of at least one Series A or B raise — data room ownership, investor diligence Q&A, financial model defensibility.
• Strong English; conversational-or-better German. German is not optional for working with our Steuerberater, our German auditors, and the BMWK ecosystem.
• Modern finance stack fluency. Experience with at least 2 of: a modern ERP (NetSuite / Sage / DATEV-adjacent), Carta or equivalent, spend management (Brex / Mercury / Spendesk), and modern FP&A tools (Pigment, Causal, or spreadsheets done well).

Bonus Points

• Past role at a hardware-and-software scaleup (revenue recognition for hardware + recurring software is genuinely different from pure SaaS).
• Direct experience with EU grant cost reporting — EIC, Horizon Europe, BMWK programs. You know what Form C wants and what an audit visit feels like.
• Sector experience: climate-tech, energy, mobility, proptech, or B2B real estate technology.
• M&A or fundraising experience as an operator (not just an investor or banker).
• You’ve built a finance function from zero before and lived to tell the tale.

Personal Characteristics

• Builder mindset: You create order, structure, and systems that make life easier. You don’t just inherit a process and run it — you redesign it where it’s broken.
• Ownership mentality: You take responsibility for the numbers, the deadlines, and the relationships with our auditors and tax advisors. No buck-passing.
• Strategic yet hands-on: Equally comfortable presenting a 3-year capital plan to the board and closing the books at month-end. The hands-on half is real, not optional.
• Detail-oriented: Missed deadlines and unreconciled accounts compound. You catch them.
• Automation-first: You instinctively look for ways to remove repetitive work rather than just doing it faster.

Who this role is not for

We’re being upfront because it saves everyone time:

• If your strongest professional muscle is strategic finance and board-level optics, and the idea of personally closing the books, chasing a missing invoice, or coordinating with the Steuerberater feels beneath you — this is the wrong stage. If you’ve spent your career delegating finance work rather than doing it, the day-to-day here will surprise you. The first finance hire after you arrives once you’ve personally closed two clean months.
• If you need a fully built finance team on day one, this is the wrong company. The team is what you’ll build.
• If you’ve spent your career in publicly listed companies or late-stage post-IPO finance, the controls vocabulary will translate but the day-to-day will feel improvisational. Some people thrive in that; not everyone.
• If your reflex to ambiguity is to escalate, document the risk, and wait for instructions, you’ll be miserable inside 90 days. We move faster than that.
• If your idea of “automation-first” is buying a tool and assigning it to someone else to implement — this is the wrong environment. We expect the finance leader to be technically curious enough to wire up the integrations themselves when needed.

Closing

If you’ve ever wanted to build the finance function of a category-defining climate-tech company through Series A and beyond — and you’d rather close a clean month-end than win an award for the cleanest org chart — we’d love to talk.