Your mission
As Senior Financial Controller at Rail-Flow, you play a key role in ensuring the quality and discipline of our financial controlling and reporting. You drive the monthly closing process, provide actionable insights for management, and continuously improve our financial processes and tools.
* Investor & C-Level Reporting: You are responsible for preparing and delivering reports for investors and executive management. You establish and maintain a company-wide KPI dashboard and prepare financial data and presentations for advisory board meetings.
* KPI Provision & Data Quality:You deliver meaningful KPIs, analyses, and reports for management and sales steering, ensuring data quality and consistency in all relevant systems.
* Process Optimization & Compliance:You analyze monthly financial results, optimize and monitor financial processes, and ensure compliance with internal and external requirements.
* Cost Control & Contribution Margin Accounting:You support the development and enhancement of cost control and contribution margin accounting, providing transparency and actionable recommendations.
* Business Planning & Analytical Model Development:You support integrated business planning, coordinate the annual business plan with departments, and develop analytical models to support forward-looking financial management.
Your profile
* You have a degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
* You bring several years (typically 3–5+) of experience in financial controlling and reporting—ideally in an international environment
* You possess solid knowledge of international accounting standards and have experience with accounting processes and financial tools (e.g. Exact, Oracle Apex, PowerBI, Claude)
* You have strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills in both Dutch and English, as well as a high level of process and deadline discipline
* Ideally, you are located in or near Hamburg or Frankfurt
Why us?
* Contribute to shifting traffic from road to rail and make a real impact on sustainability
* Work on cutting-edge marketplace and software products that transform the entire logistics industry
* Become part of a dynamic, international team where senior management brings extensive experience from both corporate and startup environments
* International work environment with locations in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Izmir, and Rotterdam
* Enjoy a high level of creative freedom and decision-making power, supported by an attractive overall package that includes:
o Flexible Home Office: Work in our modern offices with Home Office days
o Subsidized “Deutschlandticket” or Givve Card
o Bike leasing programs through Leasing-Center or BusinessBike
o Training budget for your professional development
o High-Quality IT equipment
o Two Great Team Events per Year
About us
The freight tech scale-up Rail-Flow, with over 170 employees, is revolutionising efficiency and access to rail freight and intermodal transport. The innovative Rail-Flow-platform offers customised solutions such as marketplace, collaboration, CRM and transport management tools that optimise all processes along the rail logistics value chain.
By speeding up processes and increasing the competitiveness of rail transport, Rail-Flow makes a decisive contribution to shifting transport from road to rail and thus to reducing CO2 emissions. Over 500 companies - which include rail freight companies, rail freight forwarders, intermodal operators and shippers - already rely on Rail-Flow's solutions.