Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Finance Operations Lead roles are increasingly pivotal in SaaS businesses where subscription billing, revenue recognition, and unit economics need to be operationally tight and analytically transparent. This listing stands out by explicitly combining day to day finance operations with an AI oriented transformation mandate, signalling a modern SaaS finance function rather than a traditional back office controller remit. The Munich based, hybrid setup also suggests close collaboration with product and commercial stakeholders where finance workflows intersect with contracts and customer data.
For a SaaS career, the role builds durable leverage: ownership of invoicing and close alongside KPI instrumentation such as ARR, MRR, churn, CAC, and LTV creates a strong foundation for future paths in FP&A, RevOps adjacent finance, or finance leadership in subscription businesses. The emphasis on process mapping, automation, and ROI measurement aligns with how SaaS companies scale finance without linear headcount growth, and the exposure to board and investor reporting strengthens executive narrative skills.
This position fits professionals who enjoy combining precise operational execution with systems thinking and tooling experimentation. It will suit someone early to mid career who wants broad scope, is comfortable working across data, contracts, and stakeholders, and prefers roles where improving the machine is as important as running it.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Finance Operations Lead
Munich, Hybrid
Full-time
Permanent employee
Mission
Execute today's finance operations with excellence while building tomorrow's AI-native finance function. You'll have the wide-ranging scope of a controller, combined with an innovation mandate of a transformation leader—all in one role.
Your profile
About the Role- This is where finance mastery meets AI innovation. This is where your career accelerates.
What will you do:AI-Native Finance Transformation - Map all finance processes for AI optimization
- Design and deploy AI agents for repetitive tasks
- Measure ROI and efficiency gains
Own Finance Operations & Analytics - Manage customer invoicing including contract analysis
- Maintain a transparent customer relationship database
- Calculate and analyze critical SaaS KPIs (ARR, MRR, churn, CAC, LTV)
Execute Financial Close & Executive Reporting - Lead monthly and annual close processes
- Prepare executive and board presentations as well as investor reporting
- Own and optimize finance topics such as COGS calculation, automated cost allocation logic, and capitalized development cost maximization
Manage Vendor Operations & Procurement - Oversee vendor invoice processing with financial analysis and approval authority
- Develop vendor controlling and management systems
- Serve as finance counterpart for procurement processes
Orchestrate Cash & Treasury Operations - Coordinate payment runs and liquidity planning
- Maintain cash flow forecasting
- Ensure efficient cash management
- Analyze and invoice intercompany relationships between all Aily entities
What you should bring - 2-4 years in finance advisory, controlling, or business finance (Big 4, consulting, scale-ups, or tech companies preferred)
- Outstanding Excel and PowerPoint skills with experience in building financial models, and creating executive presentations
- AI enthusiasm with hands-on experience using AI tools and genuine interest in automation and process optimization
- Technical proficiency with modern finance tools, quick learner with new software, comfortable with integrations and data management
- Executive communication skills with experience preparing board presentations
- Stakeholder management experience working with external partners (accountants, auditors) and cross-functional teams
Who are we?
Founded 2020 in Munich, we are a rapidly expanding scale-up in the B2B SaaS area. We've already assembled a super innovative, smart and fun team of 320+ highly motivated employees around our offices in Munich, Barcelona, Madrid, Cluj and New York.
At Aily Labs, we have the bold mission to democratize AI. Our groundbreaking product is an AI-powered mobile app that uses cutting-edge GenAI and traditional ML to unlock valuable business insights and gives personalized recommendations. Our aim? Disrupting the way corporate entities operate, paving the way for the world's first AI decision intelligence platform that enables faster, simpler and smarter decision-making across the entire value chain, aiming towards full Agentic automation of key business goals.
