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tozero

Business Operations & Finance (m/f/x) | Climate Tech Startup

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🪄 The conductor of our internal finances and OKRs. Setting processes that last and driving our financial excellence is your specialty.

  • As our Business Operations Rockstar, you facilitate the work of everyone around you by implementing automations and dashboards.
  • You demonstrate entrepreneurship in strategy discussions, supporting the founders on fundraising topics and leading high-priority projects across multiple work streams.
  • Guide all teams to achieve company goals by translating our company strategy in clear objectives, milestones and outcomes.
  • Take the opportunity to join a fast growing organization working towards selling a meaningful product with a market fit.

Please be aware that tozero does not offer any remote (zero remote) - we believe in building a strong culture at this stage of the company, especially with engineers having to work on-site in the plant and lab.

Tasks

🎯 Driving Fundraising, Operational Excellence, and Investor Relations to Propel Growth at tozero.

  • Emphasize financial planning: You budget and track our expenses across different departments.
  • Use your Excel-Skills to prepare financial reports and set up dashboards & automations that allow us to handle our finances with ease.
  • Critically question, analyze and improve existing processes: We constantly aim to improve our setup with maximum efficiency. Help us to build the best possible version of tozero with world-class processes enabling us to have a smoothly running organization.
  • Have the big picture in mind: Monitor our target achievement and apply the right levers to achieve our OKRs & KPIs.
  • Manage and drive your own projects: At tozero you will get responsibility from day one. You will work on multiple projects in parallel that will require you to be adaptable across multiple functions.

Requirements

🧠 You love to work autonomously and are self-motivated, able to tackle different challenges and adapt to a constantly changing and highly demanding work environment. At the same time, you are competitive and results-focused, understand KPIs and are driven to smash targets.

  • Experience: 1-2 years work experience in a fast-paced environment (start-up / strategy consulting / investment banking)
  • Qualification: Bachelor in Business Administration or related field from a top university (Master is a plus!)
  • Languages: English is mandatory; good German understanding is necessary (B2 min.)
  • Problem Solver: You can break complex problems into smaller ones and enjoy working with data to facilitate your work using such tools as Excel. You can make a good business case and convince people to help you execute
  • Business Operator at heart: Creating from scratch excites you. Figuring out how to solve problems is one of your favourite activities. Building, scaling, and rapidly iterating upon software is what keeps you going
  • Effective communication: Concise written and verbal communication
  • Growth mindset: You want to learn and improve every day.
  • Collaborative: You know how to work with and through others to drive results and make change happen, and are customer service oriented.
  • Proactive: You prioritize what needs to be done and rally colleagues to get things accomplished; “roll up the sleeves” type of attitude
  • Enthusiasm: Ability to develop an extensive network of relevant relationships both internally and externally, as required
  • Coach-ability: Open to new ideas and feedback. Constantly looking to improve. A genuine passion for the mission (you also dream of a planet with no lithium-ion battery waste!)

Benefits

At tozero, we believe in providing a supportive and enriching work environment to help our team achieve top performance 🌟

  • Free Snacks and Drinks in the Office: Stay energized throughout the day with a variety of snacks and beverages.
  • Jobticket: Conveniently commute to work and all around Germany with our fully subsidized Deutschlandticket.
  • Fitness Subscription: Prioritize your well-being with a complimentary fitness subscription, promoting a healthy and active lifestyle.
  • Education Budget: We encourage continuous learning and development. Benefit from an education budget to enhance your skills and knowledge.
  • Dynamic Startup Environment: Thrive in a highly dynamic startup culture, collaborating with experts in the field and contributing to innovative projects that shape the future.

This is how we proceed:

  • After reviewing your documents we will get back to you and schedule an Intro Call where you learn about tozero, our mission and the team. We get to know you and understand your motivation.
  • Prior to the next session you will receive a case study to work on. This part is important to us to assess your cultural and business fit for the role. Your case will then be challenged by our CEO Sarah in the second interview.
  • In the third interview, you will talk to Ksenija our CTO and we will evaluate your fit to our company culture (culture, values, working style, etc..).
  • If all parties are happy we will make you an offer and you can start right away.

We are looking forward to your application!

Updated: 1 day ago
Job ID: 12584750
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tozero

11-50 employees
Waste Treatment and Disposal

👋 About us in short:

▷ Europe’s first startup recycling lithium ion batteries

▷ On a mission to build a scalable lithium-ion battery recycling machine to recover the critical m…

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