# Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Helsing, a defence AI company, we're seeking a Senior Commercial Finance Business Partner to join our Commercial Finance function in Munich. You'll act as a strategic co-pilot to our R&D Directors, Heads of Manufacturing, and Procurement leaders, driving investment decisions and ensuring robust long-term profitability.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading financial appraisals of new initiatives and building complex business cases for major R&D programmes, software features, and physical hardware platforms

- Modeling and tracking key investment metrics, such as IRR, NPV, and Payback Period, to guide capital allocation across competing engineering projects

- Evaluating capital expenditure proposals for manufacturing scale-up and investments in automated production lines, testing facilities, and specialized tooling

- Leading cross-functional financial evaluations to determine whether to build capabilities in-house or source them externally

Requirements:

- Strong post-qualification experience with a recognized professional finance qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA, or equivalent)

- Highly advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities

- Proven track record in a commercial finance or business partnering role within high-tech manufacturing, aerospace, defense, deep tech, automotive, or capital-intensive engineering

- Extensive experience building, presenting, and defending robust business cases to senior executives

- Familiarity with European defense procurement processes and commercial auditing requirements of government cost-plus contracts

- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in German and English

We offer:

- Competitive salary and VSOP options

- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation

- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance

- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)

- Social: regularly company events and monthly social allowances

- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers

- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

## Skills

### Required
- financial modeling
- commercial finance
- business partnering
- European defense procurement processes
- German
- English

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