Abbove is a fast-growing WealthTech startup developing an innovative SaaS platform for wealth planning. With a dedicated and expanding team, we’re committed to revolutionizing wealth management by delivering powerful tools to wealth advisors. Abbove’s technology is used by over 1,000 professional wealth advisors (from private banks, family offices, and other wealth organizations) to provide holistic wealth planning services to more than 35,000 families across Europe.
Your Role: Financial and administrative director
We are seeking a detail-oriented and strategic Financial Planning and Budgeting Manager to enhance our financial growth and budgeting processes. This person will play a key role in shaping Abbove’s financial strategy, optimizing our financial processes, and fostering a culture of both growth and rigor. The ideal candidate will have experience in fundraising, treasury management, and financial analysis, along with a passion for automating financial processes and improving efficiency. This role demands a strong financial background, SaaS expertise, fintech knowledge, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic startup environment.
Key responsibilities
- Budgeting and Financial Planning: develop and secure board approval for annual budgets, aiming for a two-year cycle, and engage in strategic financial planning to support growth.
- Financial Management and Analysis : oversee cash management, assess financial risks, and conduct profitability analyses for the organization and clients. Ensure real-time tracking of financial KPIs, allowing for data-driven decision-making and transparency across the organization
- Stakeholder Relations: act as the primary liaison with the board on financial matters, manage relationships with banks and external auditors, and support compliance with regulations.
- Fundraising and Growth Strategies: identify funding opportunities and create strategies for financial retention and growth, including pricing strategies and negotiations. Present and defend pricing models to large institutional clients
- Process Improvement and Automation: lead initiatives to automate financial & sales processes, create financial dashboards, and ensure comprehensive client tracking through the CRM to create a centralized, seamless client journey from acquisition to retention.
- Cross-Functional Support and Incentives: support organizational initiatives such as salary policy standardization and the launch of stock options for employees and management.
- Collaborate with external auditors to ensure regulatory compliance and successful audits.
- Establish automated financial dashboards to track critical SaaS metrics such as Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), churn rate, Customer Lifetime Value (LTV), and real-time budgeting and cash projections to guide strategic decisions.
- Oversee quarterly financial closings, annual indexing, and regulatory reporting.
Required skills and expertise
- Experience: At least 5-10 years of experience in finance, with substantial time as a CFO or Head of Finance within a SaaS or fintech startup. Proven expertise in managing banking relationships and external audits.
- Technical Skills: Strong grasp of budgeting, cash flow management, and automation tools. Familiarity with CRM systems like HubSpot and financial software.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Understanding of financial regulations and compliance requirements.
- Analytical Strength: Ability to build robust financial models, evaluate KPIs, and anticipate financing needs. Experience in tracking and optimizing SaaS-specific metrics (MRR, LTV, CAC, churn).
- Leadership: Collaborative approach with the CEO, board, and cross-functional teams. Experience in scaling operations and implementing financial discipline in a high-growth environment.
- Strategic and Negotiation Abilities: Expertise in pricing strategy for B2B SaaS, with strong negotiation skills to manage relationships with major institutional clients.
Languages: Proficiency in French and English, Dutch is a plus.
What we offer
Working in a scale up environment requires a high-level of professionalism, proactivity and autonomy. We work as a team and everyone can rely on other’s work. If you want to better understand our work environment and culture, have a look a our culture book.
- A full-time position with responsibility in which there’s room for your own creativity and initiatives.
- The opportunity to grow with the company and to develop your role accordingly over time.
- The chance to join a small, young, and talented team that’s not afraid of a bit of fun.
- An attractive salary package.
- An energetic, social, and flexible environment with the opportunity to work at our office in Brussels combined with some days of home working
