Head of Finance, Brenger

Salary not provided
Excel
Senior and Expert level
Amsterdam

Office located in Next to the Vondelpark, Amsterdam

Brenger

Transport logistics platform for bulky goods

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Brenger

Transport logistics platform for bulky goods

21-100 employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceSustainabilityLogisticsTransportDelivery

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided
Excel
Senior and Expert level
Amsterdam

Office located in Next to the Vondelpark, Amsterdam

21-100 employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceSustainabilityLogisticsTransportDelivery

Company mission

To optimally use every van on the road.

Role

Who you are

  • Minimum of 5, but preferably 7 years of experience in finance, consultancy, or investing
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking abilities
  • Significant experience in financial planning and reporting
  • Excellent presentation skills, with the expertise to develop:
  • Shareholder reporting presentations
  • Pitch decks for securing new investment.s
  • Internal presentations on financial plans and performance
  • Strong Excel skills (at least intermediate level)
  • Experience with (financial) due diligence

Desirable

  • Experience with raising investments
  • Experience at a venture capital (VC) or private equity (PE) firm
  • Legal experience
  • Familiarity with the dynamics of a platform startup and/or the transport sector
  • You are a fan of our sustainable business model

What the job involves

  • As Head of Finance, you will play a key role in steering our financial strategy and ensuring our financial health
  • This leadership position involves managing all financial aspects of the business, providing strategic financial guidance to the team, and supporting Brenger's growth
  • As the Head of Finance, you play a crucial role in managing the financial operations of our scale-up. You provide strategic direction to our financial planning, oversee budget management, and conduct cost-benefit analyses
  • You ensure the accuracy of the company’s financial reports, monitor financial risks and investment activities, and maintain strong relationships with our investors and stakeholders
  • Financial Reporting (20%): Prepare accurate monthly financial reports
  • Investor Relations (20%): Develop investor reports and play a key role in securing investment rounds. During fundraising periods, this responsibility will take up most of your time
  • Forecasting and Budgeting (20%): Create and manage forecasts and budgets for various teams
  • Optimizing Financial Processes (20%): Enhance and streamline financial processes throughout the company
  • Cashflow Management (10%): Oversee cash flow and anticipate future cash requirements
  • Risk Management and Compliance (10%): Manage financial risks and ensure compliance with relevant (financial) regulations
  • In your first 100 days, you will establish a comprehensive financial management strategy, using your expertise to advance our financial operations. Your key tasks will include:
  • Developing and delivering the monthly P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet
  • Creating detailed investor reports to ensure transparency and build confidence
  • Presenting the company's financial performance at all-hands meetings, ensuring the entire team is informed and aligned
  • Analyzing and optimizing current financial processes to enhance efficiency and accuracy
  • After 12 months, your strategic vision will be embedded in our financial policies, operations, and organizational practices. You will independently run the finance department and successfully fulfill its responsibilities, including:
  • Taking on full ownership of business forecasting and budget management across all teams, ensuring sustainable growth and financial stability
  • Playing a pivotal role when securing a next investment round for accelerating our international expansion, effectively showcasing the company's value and potential to investors
  • Managing both internal and external financial reporting with accuracy and clarity
  • Implementing a scalable internal framework for finance operations, promoting a culture of continuous improvement
  • Offering high-level financial advice for strategic decision making throughout the company
  • You’ll be involved in most strategic decisions as finance plays a key role in all of them. As Brenger is at a tipping point of accelerating growth, in the long term, there are many opportunities to grow within Brenger, with the goal of becoming CFO

Application process

  • Step 1: Intro-call with Julie (People & Culture)
  • Step 2: First Interview with Wisse (CFO) and Julie (People & Culture)
  • Step 3: Second interview. Part 1: Case with Wisse (CFO) and Tjeerd (COO). Part 2: interview with Derk (CEO)
  • We look forward to meeting you!

Our take

Brenger provides a platform that automatically connects couriers that are on the road with excess space in their vehicles that are already on route with orders for private individuals. Its solution solves two problems; individuals buying large items from online marketplaces can easily get professional transport, and couriers can fill up their trucks more efficiently, making more money in the process and reducing CO2 emissions.

In 2019 Brenger launched for the B2C market, allowing companies like furniture stores to use its service to make deliveries. A milestone was its partnership with Marktplaats.nl, the largest online marketplace for second-hand items in the Netherlands.

Brenger is active in the Netherlands and Belgium, with a network of over a thousand partner carriers. The company has recently launched its services in West Germany, with the intention of expanding further internationally. Growing steadily, it is well poised to achieve its aim of reducing 20,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions by 2025.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist

Insights

40% female employees

5% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Oct 2022

$2.8m

EARLY VC

Dec 2020

$2.8m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $11.7m

Company benefits

  • We all need a break sometimes. All employees get 25 days off per year. And as a bonus: you’re free on your birthday. So bring that cake a day before, please!
  • Daily vegetarian lunch, snacks and fruit. Once a week we enjoy a home cooked lunch by colleagues. So either way you can show your veggie cooking skills or enjoy it from others
  • We value equality. So if you welcome a baby in your life as a mom or dad, we offer you 6 weeks of full paid partner leave
  • We got your back. Your pensionplan is covered by Brenger. Nice to know: our pension is only invested sustainably
  • We don’t want you to choose between work and personal life. Therefore we work hybrid and encourage you to do sports whenever you feel like

Company HQ

Museumkwartier, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Leadership

Experience as Manager and Courier at Bavaria Bierkoerier for 2 years, and Intern of Global Commerce Innovation at Heineken.

Previous Talent Scout at Unilever and co-founder of Alemania Imports.


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