Finance & Legal Lead

👷🏻‍♀️ What we do 👷🏻‍♀️

At Emidat, we get manufacturers back to manufacturing.

Why it matters. Today, only 11% of employees in Germany are engaged at work, and knowledge workers spend 58% of their day on work about work. We want to live in a world where people do work they enjoy and that creates value. A physical world that improves everyday where manufacturers of physical products who build the world around us focus on making better, more sustainable materials. Today, low-value work is often done by people at a company because they’re the only ones who know where the data is - the current data sheet, the hand-issued declaration. EU regulation adds more every year, and when the paperwork is late, the product cannot be sold. International competition and an ageing workforce increase the problem.

What we do. Emidat connects to a manufacturer’s own systems and builds one verified record per product and plant. On it runs AI applications that produce the documents: Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), digital product passports, data sheets, tender answers. The experts approve. The software does the typing.

Where we are. 250+ manufacturers in 60+ product groups and 25+ countries, among them Holcim, Sika and a long list of mid-sized family companies. We started automating sustainability data for front runners who already wanted to do the right thing - next is everyone else.

Who we are. 50+ people in Munich, we run on ownership, action over complaint and low ego. We aim to become better everyday and reinvent ourselves quickly.

Find out more about us, the team and our values here.

What you will work on

Your mission

Build Emidat's finance engine and turn our numbers into the decisions that shape how we grow.

As our Finance & Legal Lead, you own both topics at Emidat and take the function forward as we enter our next phase of growth. You make sure finance scales seamlessly with the company and turn our numbers into insights that steer decisions on both the growth and the tech side.

At the same time, you keep the engine running: our books are clean, our contracts protect us and nothing falls through the cracks. You manage our external partners (tax advisors, legal counsel) and when something important is stuck, you're the one who follows up relentlessly until it's done.

This role is about ownership. From day-to-day operations to the high-impact projects that shape how Emidat scales, it starts and ends with you, and you bring an exceptional attention to detail to all of it.

Your core areas

Finance

• Take our finance function to the next level: set up the processes and tools we need to scale, using automation and AI wherever it makes sense.

• Own RevOps and our revenue data (ARR, renewals, churn, upsells) and turn it into insights that help our growth, customer success and product teams serve our customers even better.

• Build and maintain financial planning, dashboards, investor reporting and relations.

• Own invoicing, contracts and payments with our customers and make working with Emidat smooth and transparent for them.

• Manage accounting operations and be the main point of contact for our tax advisors. Depending on your experience, you may also take over payroll.

• Support fundraising efforts: package up metrics, prepare materials and help shape the strategy. Drive non-dilutive funding such as grants.

Legal

• Handle all non-employee legal matters (customer contracts, supplier agreements etc.) and be the point of contact to our external legal counsel.

• Own our customer contract framework (T&Cs, DPA) and work with our sales team on contract solutions that give our customers confidence and help close deals faster.

• Prepare legal due diligence in fundraising and make sure we stay compliant with regulatory requirements together with our information security team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Language: Fluent in German (C2 / Native) and business proficiency in English (C1+).

• Finance & Legal Experience: Deep hands-on experience owning operational and strategic finance in a start-up / scale-up environment. You know German accounting and tax basics and are comfortable reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.

• RevOps / CRM Experience: You have worked with CRM and revenue data (e.g. HubSpot) and know how deals, contracts and billing data should flow between systems.

• Analytical & Technical Skills: Demonstrated experience building financial models, dashboards or introducing data-driven decision making, and/or experience implementing AI-driven tools or automations that measurably reduced manual work.

• Project Execution and Ownership: A proven track record of owning and executing projects from A to Z in a high-ownership, self-managed position, ideally building up processes or a function from scratch.

• Extreme Detail-Orientation: Demonstrated ability to be in the weeds of the details to ensure success and accuracy. You have experience catching what others miss, making sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Nice to haves

• Academic Background: Master's degree in business, finance, economics, law or a related quantitative field.

• High-Growth Experience: Prior experience in a fast-paced startup or equivalent high-performance environment (e.g. B2B SaaS, Consulting, PE, IB, VC).

• Fundraising Experience: You have been through a fundraise or due diligence process, on either side of the table.

• Payroll Experience: You have run payroll and worked with DATEV and tax advisors.

How we support you

Your Team Lead will be

• Florian (Co-Founder and CTO at Emidat)

You will work with

• Lisa (Co-Founder and CEO at Emidat)

• Ajay (People & Talent Lead)

• Isabel (Team Lead, Go-to-Market)

• Janos (Team Lead, Growth & Sales Development)

• Sina (Team Lead, Customer Success)

• Benedikt (Team Lead, LCA)

Your mentors can be

• Legal and Finance: Lisa Gradow (Co-Founder & CEO at Fides, Sequoia Arc '22, prev. Co-Founder and CPO at Usercentrics)

• Sales: Theresa Hauck (Co-Founder at econos — sustainable finance, ex-BCG, United Nations)

• Company Building, Network: Markus Linder (Founder & CEO inoqo, prev. zoovu)

Meet the rest of the team HERE.

See our full benefits HERE, including:

• 💸 Attractive compensation package including VSOP (for FTEs)

• 🏖️ 25 days of vacation days per year

• 📚 €2,000 Learning Budget

Admin

• Role type: Full-Time

• Location: Munich, Germany

• Office Requirement: Office based.

• Visa / Relocation: Preference will be given to candidates already based in Munich and that do not require visa sponsorship. However, we are open to candidates who may need relocation or a visa.