Senior Manager of Strategic Finance, Vay
+ Stock options
Driverless mobility service
Open for applications
Driverless mobility service
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To speed up the rollout of driverless mobility services by using its remote human-assisted driving technologies to build trust in its services.
Role
Who you are
- Ever wanted to tell people, “Yeah, I helped launch the future of transportation”? Well, here’s your shot. At Vay, we’re flipping the script on mobility with Remote driving—delivering cars to customers with zero hassle and zero driver inside, offering a unique by the minute car rental service
- 6–8 years in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or corporate development
- Exceptional modeling and Excel skills (SQL or BI tools are a plus)
- Strong executive communication and storytelling skills
- A track record of driving cross-functional initiatives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
- Experience in high-growth, operationally complex industries like mobility, logistics, fleet, or SaaS
- Sharp problem-solving skills with a knack for translating complexity into actionable insight
- CPA, CFA, or MBA is a plus, but not a must
- Low ego, collaborative spirit, and a strong bias for action
What the job involves
- In this pivotal role, you’ll help steer Vay’s financial strategy during a transformational period of growth. As Senior Manager, Strategic Finance, you’ll be a critical partner to leadership, bringing financial discipline to big-picture decisions, building robust forecasting frameworks, and helping shape the trajectory of our business
- You’ll blend deep financial acumen with cross-functional savvy to create clarity, drive impact, and move fast in an innovative environment
- Financial Planning & Analysis (50%)
- Lead annual budgeting, long-range planning, and rolling forecast processes
- Own and elevate management reporting—designing dashboards and reports that surface what matters
- Build dynamic models to forecast operating and financial outcomes (e.g., unit economics, labor efficiency, fleet utilization)
- Partner with Ops, Product, and Growth to support capital allocation, cost control, and revenue growth
- Corporate Development (25%)
- Support strategic transactions including fundraising, acquisitions, and partnerships
- Conduct market and competitor analysis to strengthen M&A and investment theses
- Collaborate on valuation models, due diligence, and post-deal integration planning
- Drive scenario planning and performance tracking to maximize deal value
- Strategic Decision Support (25%)
- Analyze complex challenges like pricing strategy, GTM expansion, and customer segmentation
- Build frameworks and models to assess tradeoffs and guide executive decision-making
- Partner across Product, Tech, and Ops to evaluate options and influence direction
- Present clear, compelling recommendations to senior leadership
Our take
Driverless cars are often considered as the future of transport, but the AI-driven innovation is not yet powerful and safe enough to be made publically available. Furthermore, it is anticipated that many people would not trust AI-driven driverless cars regardless of their state of development, preferring to know that a human is behind the wheel.
Vay develops autonomous driving hardware powered by "teledriving", a system in which cars are driven remotely by humans. The German company will begin by providing orderable cars that can be driven manually by the customer but parked remotely by Vay staff, with future use cases including full remote rides, ride-sharing, last-mile delivery, and public transport.
Whilst other companies such as Mobileye have made plans to provide driverless cars to German cities, Vay is standing out with its unique focus on the trust of teledriving. Furthermore, the initial focus on autonomous parking will greatly speed up rollout and give the company a competitive edge. 2024 funding is being used to expand its development team and grow its European market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2021
$95m
SERIES B
May 2019
$14.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $109.2m
Company benefits
- You will be part of a highly committed, experienced, fun and international team from over 25 countries
- You'll be a part of improving transportation in metropolitan areas around the world - from Europe
- We offer healthy snacks, drinks and coffee in our modern waterfront office in Hamburg
- We have a generous, highly employee-friendly stock option plan and pay above industry standards
- We organize thoughtful & fun team events throughout the year
- We support highly flexible working policies where possible as well as support for your relocation – it doesn’t matter where you currently live
- We contribute to a FitX or UrbanSportsClub membership, plus free and all-day use of our Gravity Gym in the Berlin office
- We contribute to your monthly public transport ticket in Berlin so that it costs you <50% of the regular price
Company HQ
Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Thomas von der Ohe
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Senior Technical Program Manager for Amazon Lab126 between 2014 and 2016. Technical Program Manager for Zoox Inc. between 2016 and 2018. Co-founded Vay as CEO in 2018.
Fabrizio Ugo Scelsi
(CTO & Co-Founder)Founded autonomous driving company Mov.ING in 2014, acting as CTO until 2017.
Bogdan Djukic
(VP of Engineering & Co-Founder)Experience as a Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft between 2013 and 2017.
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