Finance & Operations Associate

About Chef Coco

Chef Coco is the fastest-growing corporate caterer in Europe.

Our 30+ person team serves top employers like Audible, Hello Fresh & Sound Cloud on a daily basis.

We are a profitable business growing quickly in a €100bn+ market, backed by top investors including Food Labs, Heliad AG, and many prominent founders & angels.

We are now entering a new phase of growth, expanding our team and footprint.

As a Finance & Operations Associate, you will own the financial cycle of the business: what we invoice, what we pay, and what our numbers tell us to do next.

You will also be the person who improves that cycle, replacing manual work with systems as we scale.

You will report to our Founder & CEO, while working closely with kitchen, growth and tech teams on the decisions your numbers shape.

Your Role

• Own the financial cycle
• Reporting. Produce the monthly P&L and the weekly flash reports the team runs on, and stand behind the numbers in them.
• Revenue side. Client invoicing across daily meals, buffet, events and subscriptions, plus receivables and chasing what is outstanding.
• Cost side. Supplier invoices, payables, food and delivery cost tracking, and the payroll inputs we hand to our external provider.
• Cash and compliance. Manage our bank accounts and cash flow, reconcile them each month, and prepare what our accountants and tax advisors need.
• Build what comes next
• Rebuild how the cycle runs.

Invoicing, cost allocation and reporting all still take more manual work than they should.

You will automate the repetitive steps and redesign those processes so they hold as we grow.

• Build with other teams. Work with kitchen, growth and tech to connect what they do to what we measure, from food cost structures to client unit economics.
• Bring the commercial angle. Support supplier negotiations and vendor benchmarking, and run ad hoc analysis when the business needs an answer quickly.

Your Profile

• 1 to 2 years of professional experience in finance, controlling, audit or consulting.

Strong working student or internship experience counts, we are looking for ambitious early-career talent.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree, or proven excellence through something you have built (e. g. a business or project).
• German at C1 level or above. Our tax advisors, suppliers and authorities all work in German.
• Solid finance fundamentals and strong Excel/Sheets: you know how a P&L is built, you can explain what moved a margin, and you build models other people can still use a year later.
• Process and systems thinking: you can map how work flows today, see where it breaks, and design something better. You would rather fix the cause than repeat the fix.
• Commercial sense and people skills: this role involves negotiating with suppliers and explaining numbers to people who do not work in finance, not only building the sheet behind them.
• High level of autonomy and ownership: you take initiative and see projects through to completion.
• Experience in food & beverage, in any role, is a real advantage here, and foodtech even more so.
• Bonus: familiarity with DATEV, Stripe, Spendesk or dashboarding tools.

Don't tick every box? If you believe you're a strong fit, we still want to hear from you!

Why Join Us?

• High Impact: You will own the financial cycle of one of Europe's fastest-scaling food companies. Your numbers shape what we price, what we cook, and where we grow next.
• Build the Systems: This is not a seat where you inherit a finished process. You will run it, find what is slow, and rebuild it. What you build stays.
• Profitable and Growing: We are profitable. Your work moves company performance directly, which is the fastest way to grow a career in a meritocratic environment.
• Growth & Autonomy: Join a high-performance team where your ideas matter, speed is valued, and you will have space to grow into a finance leadership role.

Perks & Benefits

• Ownership: Equity is part of your package, so you share in what you help build.
• Time Off: 25 vacation days.
• Free Daily Meals: Enjoy free meals everyday at our office, including take home options.
• Class

Pass Subscription: We offer a free monthly Class Pass subscription you can use for workouts, massage, wellness, beauty treatments, food & coffee.

• Prime Location: We have an air conditioned office right at Alexanderplatz.
• & More to come: We're continuously working on improving the wellbeing of our team, be it with perks, training, team events or ideas that you bring to us.
• How We Hire

We move quickly and tell you where you stand at every step.

• A 15 minute call to cover the role and the basics
• An interview with our finance lead, who you would work with day to day
• A short practical case, so you can show us how you think about a real problem of ours
• A team fit interview with a senior team member
• A final conversation with our Founder & CEO

Interested?

Send us your CV and a short note about your interest in this position.

We look forward to hearing from you and exploring how you can help drive Chef Coco's next stage of growth!