Head of Finance

We are looking for a Head of Finance to join Villari. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our financial strategy and operations. This is both a strategic as a hands-on role. You will develop and execute robust financial processes, create multi-year budgets, and ensure sound governance. Working closely with the COO/CFO, you will provide strategic financial guidance to drive scalable growth, manage risks, and support decision-making in a high-growth environment. You will shape our finance function, preparing us for the next stage of scaling while ensuring financial stability and compliance. First as an individual contributor, later as leader of the finance team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accounting and compliance; You develop and implement robust financial processes and governance frameworks to ensure effective financial management and accountability.

• Financial planning and controlling: you oversee the financial operations by managing accounting, budgets, reporting, compliance, and internal controls to ensure the Villari's financial health. And you are able to report these insights to various channels.

• Strategic business support: you analyse financial performance, provide insights, and ensure that business operations align with organizational goals and budgets. You are able to make scenario-based financial forecasts, supporting future funding rounds

About Us

At Villari, we are dedicated to extending the lifetime of steel structures in ports, infrastructure, and the steel industry through our certified crack detection technology. Our permanently installed wireless sensors detect even the smallest fatigue cracks in critical locations of bridges and cranes by analyzing variations in the magnetic field over time. Compared to traditional methods, we offer continuous and accurate inspection, carefree installation, competitive pricing, and certified technology. Our unique and patented solution has earned the trust of esteemed customers such as Tata Steel, Rijkswaterstaat, ProRail, ArcelorMittal, and many more. We take pride in our extensive coverage of 1500 sensors deployed across 8 countries, ensuring the safety and longevity of critical steel structures worldwide.

Villari’s core values are the following:

1. Integrity - We are honest about what we know and what we don't know for certain. We treat our data with the greatest care and understand that it this of utmost importance in this critical industrial environment in which we operate. There is always room to adress doubts and uncertainties, such that nothing is swept under the rug

2. Expertise - Our company is delivering seriously high-tech service: we’re not building a new app to order pizza. The combination of fatigue crack growth, ferromagnetic flux leakage, and seamless wireless communication is our unique domain in which we work with a proud team of highly-skilled and intellectual people. Customers rely on us because we know what we’re doing.

3. Accountability - We take responsibility for our actions. There’s no “not my problem” or “I don’t care” attitude at Villari. Learning from each other and carrying a both collective and individual feeling of ownership is extremely important in order to be an effective and well-balanced team.

4. Exploration - Villari was founded on the idea that we were bold enough to take complex physics and turn it into a meaningful product for our customers. As such we’ve pushed quite some boundaries along the way and we’re not afraid to turn left where others go right. On all levels people should be encouraged to try out new things and to test “wild ideas”. We understand and accept that new ideas sometimes turn out to be unsuccessful, as this is an integral part of exploring.

5. Approachability - As a company, and as individuals, we want to always be open for discussion, feedback, doubts, or just a casual chat about a topic unrelated to work. This goes towards clients, suppliers, colleagues, and towards superiors and people under your supervision. We help each other out and listen when others have something to say, regardless of seniority.

These values are at the core of our business and identity and it's very important that all our employees identify with these values.

What will you bring?

• Bachelor's and/or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; relevant professional qualification (e.g., RA, CFA) is preferred.

• 5-7 years of work experience in Finance, preferably 1-2 years within an SME or tech startup.

• Proficiency in financial software and tools, such as ERP systems (Exact) and Excel en PowerBI.

• Strong knowledge of financial management, financial processes, accounting principles, and financial regulations.

• Proactive, pragmatic, hands-on mentality

• You do not hesitate to take ownership and like to get the job done

• Ability to work in a high-growth, rapidly evolving environment.

What do we offer?

• A competitive salary, in line with your experience

• Contribute and experience being part of an internationally operating scale-up

• Both vibrant and professional company culture, based on ownership and responsibility

• 25 vacation days per year

• Hybrid and onsite working opportunities

• Every day we will provide a lunch at our office

• Participate in the most fun company events and drinks