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Financial Controller

Cradle· Operations
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Hybrid (Amsterdam)Full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Cradle is hiring its first Financial Controller to bring accounting in-house, design core financial processes, automate finance workflows, own multi-entity reporting, ensure audit-readiness, and support broader finance activities including budgeting, cash analysis, tax structuring, and upcoming funding rounds.

Responsibilities

  • Bring accounting in-house: Take full ownership of the group's accounting from external partners, and shape how it runs from the ground up.
  • Design the core financial processes: Build procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and record-to-report end to end, with controls that hold up as the company scales.
  • Automate what shouldn't be manual: Get everything possible out of our finance tools (i.e. Ramp and Campfire), and keep asking which recurring task shouldn't need a human next quarter.
  • Own the numbers across the group: Deliver accurate, timely reporting across multiple entities, currencies, and reporting frameworks.
  • Get us audit-ready: Establish the documentation and control trail that makes external review a formality rather than a scramble.
  • Support the full finance scope: Work alongside the Ops team on budgeting and forecasting, cash analysis, group tax structuring, and supporting future funding rounds.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in accounting or controlling, ideally mixing audit or accounting firm experience with time in-house at a startup or scaleup
  • You've owned a month-end close end to end
  • A track record of building or improving processes in fast-changing startup environments. You're quick to spot something sub-optimal, design a fix, and see it through.
  • Hands-on experience with a traditional ERP or comparable modern finance stack, and confident picking up and optimising new tools.
  • Comfort connecting the dots across different operational domains (Finance, People, Legal). You understand how a change in one area ripples into others.
  • Familiarity with Dutch, Swiss, and/or US statutory reporting and local filing requirements
  • You prioritise well under a lot of moving parts
  • A versatile communicator who can document a process clearly enough that someone else can follow it
  • Ability to be in the office at least 3 days a week.

Skills

Required:month-end closeprocure-to-payorder-to-cashrecord-to-reportERP / finance toolscross-domain collaborationstatutory reporting

Benefits

  • We offer a very competitive salary, a generous equity stake in the company and a wide range of benefits and career progression opportunities.
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Cradle

Leverage AI to generate protein candidates and improve their properties. More breakthroughs in fewer experiments — guided by your own experimental data.

Leverage AI to generate protein candidates and improve their properties. More breakthroughs in fewer experiments — guided by your own experimental data.

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