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Working Student Founders Associate - CFO Office (all genders)

Berlin, GermanyHybrid
Salary Range€18 to €22 / hour
Role TypeWorking Student
AreaAssistance, Administration

mika is AI bookkeeping for small businesses and startups. We automate what costs founders the most time: processing receipts, the Umsatzsteuervoranmeldung (monthly VAT filing) and the Jahresabschluss (German annual financial statements). Instead of waiting on hold at a tax firm, you get answers in plain language.

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What this is about

You work directly with Luke, our CFO and co-founder, in the CFO Office. This is where finance, investor relations and the day-to-day running of the company come together. You do not see one slice of the business, you see the numbers behind it and the decisions that follow from them.

The perspective

We are not looking for someone for 20 hours. We are looking for someone who starts as a working student and moves into a full-time role after their master’s degree.

  • Target role after graduation: Founders Associate - CFO Office, full time, starting salary around €50,000
  • You can write your master’s thesis with us, with access to real data and supervision in house.
  • The role shifts clearly towards substance when you make that move. The assistance part, which is large at the start, becomes small.

Responsibilities

The split below is the starting point, not the end state. The assistance part goes down by design as you take on more substance, down to roughly 15 % in the full-time role.

Executive assistance: approx. 35 %

  • Keep Luke’s calendar, priorities and inbox under control
  • Prepare meetings: agenda, documents, numbers. Afterwards minutes and follow-ups
  • File contracts and documents properly, keep deadlines in view, organise meetings with investors, banks and partners

Finance & controlling: approx. 25 %

  • Build and maintain monthly reporting and KPI dashboards
  • Help develop forecast and budget, analyse deviations and explain them
  • Support liquidity planning and payment operations, support the monthly closing and the Jahresabschluss together with our accounting team

Strategic projects & BizOps: approx. 25 %

  • Own your own projects end-to-end, from analysis to implementation
  • Automate finance processes, often with our own product, and improve data quality where it hurts right now
  • Ad hoc analyses for the management team and the board

Fundraising & investor relations: approx. 15 %

  • Prepare investor updates: pull the numbers together, sharpen the story, coordinate the send-out
  • Maintain the financial model, run scenarios, keep the cap table up to date
  • Set up the data room and work through due diligence requests in a structured way

Qualifications

What you bring

  • Absolute reliability and discretion. You work with confidential numbers and personal details. In this role that is the most important requirement, not a formality.
  • An ongoing master’s degree in economics, finance, business informatics, industrial engineering or something comparable, with 3 to 18 months to go until graduation, and you can tell us when you will be done. A pure thesis phase is explicitly fine, you then move into the full-time role that much sooner
  • Very good Excel or Google Sheets skills. You build a clean model, not just a table
  • First practical experience in finance, controlling, corporate finance, consulting, investment banking, private equity, VC or at a startup
  • A structured, independent way of working. You do not need a task list to get going, and you speak up when something does not add up
  • AI tools are part of your working day, not new territory. We use them daily and expect the same from you
  • German at C1 level, good English at B2 level
  • You want to be in the office in Berlin and sort things out in the hallway instead of in three Slack threads

Nice to have

  • Experience with BI tools, SQL or Python for analyses
  • First contact with bookkeeping, HGB (the German commercial code) or tax topics

Benefits

  • Direct access: you work with the CFO every day and regularly with the entire founding team
  • Real responsibility: your analyses end up in the investor update and in decisions, not in a folder
  • A steep learning curve: finance at a growing startup means controlling, fundraising, legal and operations all at once. You learn more in one year than in three years at a large corporation
  • Flexibility during exam periods: your studies come first. We plan around your exams together, and there is paid holiday on top
  • Berlin office, good equipment, team lunches and a team that would rather ship than count meetings
  • Modern tooling: we work with the best AI tools available and build our own

Sound like you?

Then we look forward to your application! A solid CV is enough, you do not need a long cover letter.

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