Chief of staff to the CFO

Back to jobsChief of staff to the CFOMilan (Italy), London (UK), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), or fully remote from eligible countriesPermanent or fixed-termApply✅️ Link copied!Questions about our recruiting process?Check the FAQ.At Bending Spoons, we’re striving to build one of the all-time great companies. A company that serves a huge number of customers. A company where team members grow to their full potential. A company that functions at unparalleled levels of effectiveness and efficiency. A company that creates value for shareowners at an extraordinary rate. And a company that does so while adhering to high ethical standards.In pursuit of this objective, we acquire and improve digital businesses, not to sell on, but to own and operate for the long term. The transformations we make are often deep—designed to speed up innovation, benefit customers, and strengthen business performance. Here, hierarchy is minimal and teams are small and talent-dense. We operate established products with the ambition, agility, and urgency of a startup. Across the company, we integrate AI deeply into how we work so that human judgment and machine intelligence reinforce each other.For a talented, driven, and collaborative individual, working at Bending Spoons is an opportunity to learn, make an impact, and progress their career at an exceptionally high rate. That’s our promise to such a candidate.This role is particularly well suited to candidates with strong finance backgrounds, though we are also open to exceptional candidates from other fields who demonstrate outstanding analytical rigor and business judgment. After a 6–12-month training period as a finance manager, you may work directly with the CFO or another executive on high-priority initiatives, or move into a different role across the business, depending on your strengths and the company’s needs. Recent graduates and early-career professionals are encouraged to apply.A few examples of your responsibilitiesDrive high-priority company initiatives. Work on a broad range of strategic and operational projects across the company. Take ownership of complex initiatives, coordinate across functions, and help ensure excellent execution.Support financial planning and business performance. Contribute to budgeting, forecasting, business reviews, and analyses that help us understand performance, evaluate trade-offs, and make better decisions.Increase the effectiveness of the organization. Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement across teams and processes. Help design systems, workflows, and operating mechanisms that enable the company to scale.Leverage AI and automation. Use AI, automation, and better processes to reduce unnecessary manual work, improve decision quality, and increase the effectiveness of the company’s operations.What we look forReasoning ability. Given the necessary knowledge, you can solve complex problems. You think from first principles, and structure your ideas sharply. You resist the influence of biases. You identify and take care of the details that matter.Financial rigor. You have a strong technical foundation in finance and are comfortable building financial models, analyzing business performance, working with large datasets, and reasoning about budgeting, forecasting, profitability, and investment trade-offs in complex environments.Drive. You’re extremely ambitious in everything you do—and your initiative, effort, and tenacity match the intensity of your ambition. You feel deeply responsible for your work. You hold yourself to a high—and rising—bar.Team spirit. You give generously and without the expectation of receiving in return. You support the best idea, not your idea. You're always happy to get your hands dirty to help your team. You’re reliable, honest, and transparent.Proficiency in English. You read, write, and speak proficiently in English.What we offerIncredibly talented, entrepreneurial teams. You’ll work in small,...