Chief Financial Officer (CFO) - (m/w/d)

Hybrid Germany, Erfurt, Ilmenau, Leipzig

Full-time

Permanent employee

Shape the utilities market of the future with us!

Full Time / Erfurt, Leipzig, Ilmenau, Hybrid Germany

Build the Financial Backbone of a Global Energy Software Platform

Cuculus develops the digital infrastructure that utilities rely on to operate modern energy systems. Our platform ZONOS connects millions of smart meters, sensors, and devices worldwide and enables utilities to collect, analyze, and control energy data in real time.

As Chief Financial Officer, you will be a key sparring partner for the executive management team and take full responsibility for the financial performance, transparency, and strategic financial direction of Cuculus.

We are looking for a financial leader who enjoys building structures, improving steering mechanisms, creating transparency, and using modern technologies — including AI — to make finance faster, smarter, and more scalable.

What is the role about?

You will lead the financial backbone of Cuculus and ensure that the company can grow with discipline, clarity, and strong economic control.

It is your role to turn business ambition into financial transparency. You will work closely with the CEO and executive management team to shape financial strategy, guide decision-making, manage liquidity and funding, and build scalable structures across accounting, controlling, legal, and financial operations.

Your mission is to make financial steering a real business advantage. Success in this role means that leadership decisions become faster, better informed, and more economically grounded.

You will create the financial systems, processes, and insights that allow Cuculus to scale internationally with stronger transparency, better profitability, and greater strategic confidence. This includes improving how we plan, measure, analyze, and steer the business — from customer project economics to product investments, from liquidity planning to investor reporting, from legal structures to scalable finance operations.

Your Role at a Glance

Strategic Financial Planning: Develop and oversee the long-term financial strategy to support our global expansion goals.
Reporting & Controlling: Drive high-quality financial reporting for the management board, shareholders, and investors.
Business Steering & Profitability: Establish and continuously improve financial steering across product lifecycles, customer projects and support services.
Capital Markets & Funding: Manage liquidity planning, lead future funding rounds, and maintain strong relationships with banks and investors.
Process Optimization: Professionalize internal structures in Accounting, Controlling, and Legal to ensure full scalability for a growing Software business.
Risk Management: Identify financial and operational risks and implement robust mitigation strategies.
Leadership: Lead and mentor the finance team, fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, and high performance.

Your profile

Analytical, Hands-on & Visionary
You see yourself not just as a "numbers person", but as a business partner who sets the economic course for sustainable success.

Experience: Proven experience in a senior finance leadership role, such as CFO, VP Finance, Head of Finance, or Director Finance, ideally within a tech, SaaS, enterprise software, or B2B platform environment.
Expertise: Strong expertise in financial reporting, HGB and ideally IFRS, controlling, liquidity planning, investment controlling, and financing processes.
Executive Sparring Partner: A strong business-partner mindset and the ability to translate financial data into clear recommendations
Tech-Forward Approach: You view technology as a core enabler and are proactive in leveraging AI to enhance financial steering and efficiency, staying ahead of the curve to future-proof the finance function.
Mindset: A hands-on mentality combined with strategic foresight. You are comfortable building structures where they are missing and improving processes that are no longer scalable.
Communication: Fluency in English and German is essential for this role given our international operations and local presence.

Why us?

This role offers the opportunity to shape the financial foundation of a global software company working on one of the most important transformations of our time: the digitalization of energy infrastructure.

You will not simply manage finance as a back-office function. You will build the financial operating model that helps Cuculus scale with clarity, discipline, and ambition.

About us

Cuculus is the key to providing utilities to all, while protecting the world’s precious resources. Jointly with our international partner network, we provide cutting-edge software and technology solutions to address utility challenges now and in the future. Cuculus will never tire of creating innovative technology and services that enable utilities and organisations to successfully transition to a new era of providing and managing electricity, water, and gas. The work we do is important for individuals, cities, and entire nations. Our work is serious, but we have fun with it, too.