Role

Hive Robotics builds RF communication and orchestration systems for unmanned platforms: connecting, controlling and commanding multi-vendor drone and robot swarms. Our systems are made in Germany, in serial production and deployed on active frontlines.

You’ll be our first finance hire next to our SVP Finance & Operations, who will be your manager. Together you build the finance function of a fast-growing hardware company: business plans, budgets and financial models, accounting, finance systems, financing rounds and our tax setup. You get responsibility early and work directly with the founders, the board and our investors.

This is not a reporting role. When the founders or team leads need numbers to make a decision, they come to you: what a deal is worth, what a new team costs, how long our cash lasts. The basics are in place: an integrated financial model, external accounting in DATEV, digital tools for invoices and expenses, and regular reporting to the board and shareholders. What’s missing is someone who owns all of this day to day and takes it to the next level.

Responsibilities

• Build the numbers behind the plan. Own our integrated financial model and turn it into the budget and forecast the founders and the board use to steer the company. When someone asks what happens if we win a big order, you have the answer.
• Be in the room when decisions are made. New products, pricing for a customer offer, the cost of scaling production: you work with engineering, production and sales, and your numbers shape what we do next.
• Use AI to see more in the numbers. Use AI tools to analyse data faster and in more depth, spot trends and risks early and test more scenarios than a classic finance team could. You spend your time on the questions that matter, not on copying data between spreadsheets.
• Help raise the money that funds our growth. Work hand in hand with our SVP Finance & Operations on our next financing rounds, from business plan and investor story to data room and due diligence. Explore bank financing, venture debt and public funding with us.
• Keep a close eye on cash. Know at any time how much cash we have, how long it lasts and what is coming in and going out. In a hardware company with large orders, down payments and long supplier lead times, this is where finance makes the biggest difference.
• Tell the story behind the numbers. Prepare the monthly and quarterly reporting for our board and shareholders, and explain clearly what moved and why.
• Make our books fast and reliable. Steer our external accountants, set the rules for how costs are booked, and prepare the year-end closing and audit. As we bring accounting in-house, you help build that team.
• Solve tax questions for an international business. Customers across Europe and beyond, a new foreign entity, research tax incentives: work with our tax advisors to set things up right from the start.
• Build a finance setup that scales. We already use AI to pre-check incoming invoices, and that is just the start. Choose, connect and automate our finance tools, bring in AI wherever it makes us faster and more accurate, and help introduce our ERP system when the time comes. The goal: a small team that runs the finance of a much larger company.

Requirements

What you bring

• Around 1 to 4 years of experience in finance, wherever you gained it: advisory, audit, corporate finance, investing or a startup finance team
• Strong analytical skills: you are confident in Excel, enjoy building models and like to understand what really drives the numbers
• You already use AI tools in your daily work and are curious how they can change the way finance works
• A good grasp of accounting basics: you know how P&L, balance sheet and cash connect
• Ambition and ownership: you want to learn fast, take on responsibility early and do the work yourself
• A structured way of working: you document your models and processes so others can follow them
• Discretion with confidential information on financials, financing and compensation
• Fluent German and English: accounting, tax and authorities work in German, the team works in English
• Based in Munich or willing to relocate
• Eligibility and willingness to undergo security vetting, which some of our projects require

Nice to have

• Experience in hardware, deep tech, defence or manufacturing
• First exposure to financing rounds, public funding or tax topics
• Experience with DATEV or other finance tools

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