Founding Finance Manager

tl;dr

• After 14 years in construction tech, Lea & Jonas are building the intelligence layer for the construction industry

• The largest construction enterprises in Europe — with a combined project volume of over €30bn annually — rely on Kuro every day to automate workflows and make faster, better decisions

• We are looking for a Founding Finance Manager to join our team in Berlin and work directly with our founder and CEO Lea on building Kuro’s financial and operational backbone from the ground up. You will bring structure to core finance operations, improve financial processes and reporting, and help build scalable systems that support the company’s growth from day one.

About Us

Lea and Jonas scaled two of Europe's leading construction tech companies - Capmo and alcemy - and saw firsthand the challenges holding the industry back. Now they're tackling the root cause: the 50% of construction work still lost to manual data handling.

Kuro is the the intelligent project data system for construction. We're reimagining how construction professionals get work done and make decisions by leveraging AI to augment back-office workflows and make core data accessible.

After one year on the market leading construction enterprises with a combined construction volume >30 billion annually use Kuro everyday to automate workflows and make faster, better decisions .

We are 14 people based in Berlin. You will join a group of ex-technical founders and builders that are ambitious and kind.

Learn more: Join Kuro - Berlin

The Opportunity

As Founding Finance Manager , you'll work directly with Kuro’s founder and CEO in a high-ownership role at the intersection of finance, operations, and strategy. You will bring structure and clarity to Kuro’s core finance operations — including investor reporting, budgeting cycles, invoicing workflows, and revenue operations — while building scalable systems and automations that support the company’s growth.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning complexity into structure and wants to have direct impact in an early-stage environment. You’ll thrive in fast-moving environments, combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and bring a pragmatic, data-driven mindset to solving operational and financial challenges.

What You'll Do

• Set up and own monthly investor reporting and financial reporting structures

• Lead monthly budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning cycles

• Own invoicing, billing, and related operational finance workflows, bringing structure and scalability to currently manual processes

• Design and improve revenue operations processes, including tracking of platform and consumption-based pricing

• Own monthly accounting, payroll, and related operational finance topics

• Build scalable and automated finance workflows, systems, and internal reporting processes

• Collaborate closely with leadership on strategic finance, business operations, and company planning topics

• Support additional operational initiatives across the company as the business grows

Your profile

• 4+ years of experience in a finance role within a B2B SaaS startup environment

• Proven experience setting up financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and operational finance processes

• Experience owning or improving invoicing, billing, and revenue operations workflows

• Strong analytical and structured way of working, with attention to detail and operational excellence

• Data-driven mindset with an interest in building scalable systems, automations, and reporting structures

• Ability to operate independently in fast-paced and ambiguous environments with high ownership

• Entrepreneurial and hands-on mentality with a willingness to build processes from scratch

• Fluent in German and English

Why Kuro

You are joining Kuro at the moment it matters most. The product is live, customers are paying but their journey with Kuro is only beginning and you can shape it from the get-go.

This is your chance to join extremely early and help build one of Kuro core functions but also build an extremely rare profile on how to guide enterprise users through this platform shift. There is no playbook, the world is changing in an unprecedented speed and you can shape how one of the most critical industries around the globes win in this new era.

The process

1. Talent Acquisition Call — Intro, logistics & fit (30 min)

2. Impact Call — Deep dive with Lea & Get to know Product (30 min)

3. Challenge — A time-boxed business challenge (≤4 hours)

4. Challenge review and deep dive (60 minutes)

5. On-site Day — Meet the team and lunch/dinner

   • Culture Interview (30 Min)

   • Meet several team members

   • Go for lunch with the team

6. Decision