Finance Lead
About the job
- At least 6 years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or audit, ideally with high-growth startup or scale-up exposure.
- A degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Strong financial modelling and analysis skills, including the ability to build driver-based models from scratch and proficiency in Excel and Google Sheets.
- A solid grasp of Swiss accounting, tax, and payroll requirements, and comfort operating across multiple entities and currencies.
- Experience setting up or improving finance processes and systems, and comfort with ambiguity and ownership in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to translate financial concepts for non-finance stakeholders and present to leadership and investors.
- Lead global financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to align with company strategic goals at a SaaS startup.
- Establish and maintain global financial controls and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards to optimize performance and mitigate risks.
- Develop and maintain complex financial models to support decision-making processes.
- Analyze financial data, including profit and cost analyses, and create reports for leadership to support improvements or strategic changes.
- Establish and maintain end-to-end procurement processes, including third-party vendor and tool selection, vendor onboarding, invoice payment, vendor management, and vendor offboarding.
- Oversee global finance and accounting practices and processes to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting and compliance with global accounting standards.
- Implement scalable processes and tools for budget management and reporting.
- Complete global payroll, tax, and compliance reporting.
- Lead global financial audits from preparation to completion.
- Continuously evaluate and improve financial processes, systems, and tools to support rapid company growth.
- Drive monthly close and cash-flow forecasting.
- Experience with a high-growth startup or scale-up.
- A professional qualification such as Swiss Fachausweis, ACCA, CPA, or CFA.
About the company
Flexion Robotics builds the AI brain for humanoid robots, creating an autonomy stack that lets robots understand natural-language tasks, plan movements, and control their whole body through reinforcement learning and sim-to-real training. The stack has three layers: a command layer that uses language models for task decomposition, a motion layer with vision-language-action models trained largely on synthetic data, and a low-latency whole-body control layer with modular skills. The company differentiates itself with a strong ETH Zurich–trained team and a full-stack approach that covers language understanding, motion planning, and real-time control, plus partnerships and funding to commercialize the autonomy stack with OEMs. Its goal is to achieve useful, widespread autonomy for humanoid robots by scaling robot fleets and establishing a US presence through OEM collaborations.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$57.4M
Headquarters
Zurich, Switzerland
Founded
2025
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 2026 careers pages list nine roles, including US research scientist and forward-deployed robotics.
- The company raised $50 million in November 2025, funding compute and robot-fleet expansion.
- Flexion says it already works with major OEM partners, supporting near-term pilots.
What critics are saying
- Flexion still lacks named customers, paid deployments, and audited autonomy metrics as of September 2026.
- Unitree hardware dependence and simulator-to-reality failures can stall commercialization before 2027.
- OpenAI, Google, Tesla, and Figure can outspend Flexion, crushing its OEM partnerships.
What makes Flexion Robotics unique
- Flexion’s November 2025 Series A paired DST Global Partners with NVentures backing.
- Its stack spans language planning, vision-language-action, and whole-body control through reinforcement learning.
- September 2026 hiring shows Zurich R&D plus San Francisco research, signaling global execution.
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