Financial Controller

Financial Controller

Location: Hybrid (Remote with monthly travel to client HQ in Germany)

Start Date: As soon as possible

Languages: Business-fluent English required; German skills advantageous

Overview

Our client is seeking a motivated, dynamic, and hardworking Financial Controller with 3–5 years of experience to support their expanding international operations. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast‑paced environment, enjoys taking ownership, and can confidently partner with senior stakeholders across a growing technology organisation.

You will play a key role in ensuring financial stability, accuracy, and transparency while contributing to the strategic financial direction of the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage month‑end and year‑end closing activities, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis across multiple business units.
• Maintain and improve financial controls, processes, and compliance standards.
• Prepare detailed financial reports, dashboards, and KPI analyses for senior management.
• Support cash‑flow planning, cost analysis, and margin optimisation initiatives.
• Coordinate with external auditors, tax advisors, and regulatory stakeholders as required.
• Partner closely with operational teams to provide financial insight and support decision‑making.
• Oversee accounts payable/receivable processes and ensure accurate reconciliation.
• Assist with financial planning for ongoing and upcoming projects within the telecommunications/ICT domain.

Required Skills & Experience

• 3–5 years’ experience in financial controlling, accounting, or similar finance roles.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting principles, accounting standards, and internal controls.
• Experience working in a telecommunications, ICT, or technology‑driven environment is highly desirable.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and present insights clearly.
• High level of proficiency in Excel and modern financial tools (ERP systems, BI tools, etc. ).
• Business‑fluent English is essential; German language skills are advantageous.
• Strong communication and stakeholder‑management abilities.
• Motivated, dynamic, and hardworking with a hands‑on approach to problem‑solving.
• Ability to travel to Germany once per month for meetings at the client’s headquarters.

What We Offer

• A hybrid working model with flexibility and autonomy.
• Opportunity to work closely with a forward‑thinking leadership team in a high‑growth technology environment.
• Exposure to international operations and cross‑border financial management.
• Competitive compensation package aligned with experience.

Financial Administrative Assistant

We’re looking for a Financial Administrative Assistant to help us keep our financial operations running smoothly. You’ll work closely with the person currently responsible for this area, learning and gradually taking on more responsibilities in processes like invoicing, cost control, and payroll support.

At Premium Minds, we build software with a strong sense of purpose — and that requires solid foundations. Finance is one of them.

We’ll provide an excellent work environment, a competitive salary for a full‑time job, health insurance, mobile plan, and your monthly balance in our internal virtual currency app.

What you’ll be doing

• Issuing invoices and following up on client payments
• Supporting our monthly payroll process, in collaboration with our accounting team
• Monitoring costs and updating internal management reports
• Assisting in the preparation of financial and operational reports
• Working closely with project managers and our admin team to keep everything aligned and clear

What we’re looking for

• Background in Accounting, Management or a similar area
• Analytical mindset and strong attention to detail
• Discreet, trustworthy, and responsible profile
• Good communication and organizational skills
• Eagerness to learn and grow quickly
• Experience with Primavera
• Basic experience with SAP
• Intermediate level of Spanish

What you can expect

• A calm and friendly environment where people and relationships come first
• A company with a strong culture of autonomy, trust, and continuous learning
• A team that cares about making good decisions and building sustainable systems — financial ones included

Cultural Requirements

• Expect and encourage the best in everyone you interact with
• Share information and knowledge proactively
• Being sincere and straightforward, admitting your mistakes
• Being self‑driven and work towards a common team or company purpose
• Speak and understand Portuguese (English is a valued language)

About Premium Minds

We are a Software House specializing in backend engineering, custom solutions and AI innovation with satisfied demanding customers in Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, UK and USA.

We have teams composed of Software Engineers, Software Architects, Designers, Software Quality Engineers and Dev Ops, working all together at our Lisbon offices in Avenidas Novas, close to three subway lines, Entrecampos train station, bus stops and several shared bike and scooter stations.

Here, we value people over processes, and empower autonomy through a bottom‑up approach.

We are an approved partner of Digital Knights, placing us among the top 7% of European software houses that meet their technical quality standards. In 2022, we ranked 7th among medium‑sized companies in Portugal’s Índice da Excelência for employee engagement.

We're more than 140 happy people following an agile philosophy, and growing.