Chief Financial Officer
Viktor • Europe
Posted: May 3, 2026
Job Description
About Viktor
Viktor is the AI teammate. It lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams, connects to thousands of tools, and does real work for real companies: finance, marketing, ops, engineering. We're building the product that replaces half the SaaS stack.
The team is small. The scope is not.
The Short Version
You're the person founders trust with the actual numbers. Not the deck numbers. The real ones. You've sat across from term sheets, payroll runs, and bad quarters and kept your head. You can build a model from scratch and explain it to someone who's never seen one.
What's Actually Going On Here
We're growing faster than our finance function. Decisions about burn, hiring pace, and runway are happening in spreadsheets the founders made themselves. That worked at twelve people. It won't work at fifty.
You'll be our first finance hire. No controller, no FP&A team, no fractional CFO to hand off from. You report to the CEO directly and build the entire function: how we forecast, close the books, make capital decisions, and tell our story to investors when it's time to raise again.
What You'll Actually Do
Own the numbers end-to-end. Accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, audit, board reporting. Later you'll hire a team. Right now, you are the team.
Build the model that runs the company. A living forecast that tells the founders what the next hire costs, what the next deal does to runway, what happens if we miss by twenty percent.
Manage the cash. You decide how it's deployed and you know the runway number to the day.
Run the next raise with the co-founders: diligence, data room, investor questions.
Be the adult in the room on big decisions: real estate, equity, comp bands, vendor contracts. You make sure we don't do something we'll regret in eighteen months.
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the co-founders. They want a partner who pushes back, not someone who just builds what's asked.
How You'll Know It's Working
The founders make decisions faster, not slower, because the numbers are clear.
The board pack writes itself. Investors get what they need without three rounds of follow-up.
Month-end close happens on time, every time, without drama.
When we raise, diligence is short because the data room is already real.
We never get surprised by cash. Ever.
Who You Are
10+ years in finance, with at least 3 as a CFO, VP Finance, or Head of Finance at a venture-backed startup.
Operator, not just an analyst. You've built models, but you've also signed leases, fired vendors, and sat through audits.
Fluent in startup finance: SaaS metrics, ARR vs bookings, deferred revenue, equity dilution, 409A.
Founder mentality. You're building a function, not inheriting one.
Remote, Warsaw, or Munich. Work fully remote or join us in an office, whichever fits your life, with travel for offsites and key moments.
Why This Role Is Different
No layers. No CFO above you. You report directly to the CEO and own the function.
The decisions you shape will define the company. At this stage, capital allocation is strategy.
The product makes the story easier. The numbers behind it are good, and easier to tell with you holding the pen.
The co-founders already believe finance is strategic. No convincing anyone it matters.
Even Better If
You've taken a company through a Series B or C and know what changes at each stage.
You've been in the room for an acquisition, on either side.
You've worked where founders were deeply involved in finance and you loved it.
How we work
Small team, high trust, low process. Decisions are made by owners, not committees. You will ship your first week. You will talk to users your first day. We don't do alignment meetings or stakeholder syncs. We build things, see if they work, and iterate.
Everyone here owns something real. Not a task. A surface of the company that customers depend on. When it breaks, you fix it. When it wins, everyone knows whose work it was.
We use Viktor to build Viktor. You'll see what you're working on in action every day.
Why Viktor
This is a rare window. The product works. The market is pulling. The team is small enough that what you do next week will be live in production next week. That doesn't last forever. Right now, it's still true.
Compensation
Competitive salary and the kind of ownership that only exists at this stage.
We're in Munich, New York, and Warsaw. Onsite preferred. The best work happens when you're in the room.
Additional Content
About Viktor
Viktor is the AI teammate. It lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams, connects to thousands of tools, and does real work for real companies: finance, marketing, ops, engineering. We're building the product that replaces half the SaaS stack.
The team is small. The scope is not.
The Short Version
You're the person founders trust with the actual numbers. Not the deck numbers. The real ones. You've sat across from term sheets, payroll runs, and bad quarters and kept your head. You can build a model from scratch and explain it to someone who's never seen one.
What's Actually Going On Here
We're growing faster than our finance function. Decisions about burn, hiring pace, and runway are happening in spreadsheets the founders made themselves. That worked at twelve people. It won't work at fifty.
You'll be our first finance hire. No controller, no FP&A team, no fractional CFO to hand off from. You report to the CEO directly and build the entire function: how we forecast, close the books, make capital decisions, and tell our story to investors when it's time to raise again.
What You'll Actually Do
Own the numbers end-to-end. Accounting, FP&A, treasury, tax, audit, board reporting. Later you'll hire a team. Right now, you are the team.
Build the model that runs the company. A living forecast that tells the founders what the next hire costs, what the next deal does to runway, what happens if we miss by twenty percent.
Manage the cash. You decide how it's deployed and you know the runway number to the day.
Run the next raise with the co-founders: diligence, data room, investor questions.
Be the adult in the room on big decisions: real estate, equity, comp bands, vendor contracts. You make sure we don't do something we'll regret in eighteen months.
Work shoulder-to-shoulder with the co-founders. They want a partner who pushes back, not someone who just builds what's asked.
How You'll Know It's Working
The founders make decisions faster, not slower, because the numbers are clear.
The board pack writes itself. Investors get what they need without three rounds of follow-up.
Month-end close happens on time, every time, without drama.
When we raise, diligence is short because the data room is already real.
We never get surprised by cash. Ever.
Who You Are
10+ years in finance, with at least 3 as a CFO, VP Finance, or Head of Finance at a venture-backed startup.
Operator, not just an analyst. You've built models, but you've also signed leases, fired vendors, and sat through audits.
Fluent in startup finance: SaaS metrics, ARR vs bookings, deferred revenue, equity dilution, 409A.
Founder mentality. You're building a function, not inheriting one.
Remote, Warsaw, or Munich. Work fully remote or join us in an office, whichever fits your life, with travel for offsites and key moments.
Why This Role Is Different
No layers. No CFO above you. You report directly to the CEO and own the function.
The decisions you shape will define the company. At this stage, capital allocation is strategy.
The product makes the story easier. The numbers behind it are good, and easier to tell with you holding the pen.
The co-founders already believe finance is strategic. No convincing anyone it matters.
Even Better If
You've taken a company through a Series B or C and know what changes at each stage.
You've been in the room for an acquisition, on either side.
You've worked where founders were deeply involved in finance and you loved it.
How we work
Small team, high trust, low process. Decisions are made by owners, not committees. You will ship your first week. You will talk to users your first day. We don't do alignment meetings or stakeholder syncs. We build things, see if they work, and iterate.
Everyone here owns something real. Not a task. A surface of the company that customers depend on. When it breaks, you fix it. When it wins, everyone knows whose work it was.
We use Viktor to build Viktor. You'll see what you're working on in action every day.
Why Viktor
This is a rare window. The product works. The market is pulling. The team is small enough that what you do next week will be live in production next week. That doesn't last forever. Right now, it's still true.
Compensation
Competitive salary and the kind of ownership that only exists at this stage.
We're in Munich, New York, and Warsaw. Onsite preferred. The best work happens when you're in the room.