Collection & Risk Operations Manager (m/f/d)
your mission
We're looking for an experienced Collections & Risk Operations Manager (m/f/d) to take ownership of key financial processes and help advance our mission of giving businesses fair, instant access to capital.
In this role, you'll own day-to-day financial operations and play a crucial part in payment reconciliation, underwriting, and customer communication - all while ensuring compliance and supporting our broader finance initiatives.
As an integral member of the finance team, you'll support the core risk and collections leads in their daily work: managing underwriting, driving operational debt recovery processes, active debtor communication, and collaborating cross-functionally to back business decisions with accurate, timely insights.
You'll also help us advance continuous improvement, automation, and operational excellence across the finance function.
If you're a proactive finance professional with at least two years of relevant experience and a hands-on approach, we'd love to hear from you.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Reconcile payments daily
- Clarify open items and disputes with merchants and bring findings to customer success
- Respond to debtor inquiries (written and phone) and conduct active outbound outreach
- Follow up on open collections tickets through the dunning ladder
- Validate incoming invoices against defined policy guardraisl
- Manage invoice corrections with merchants through to closure
- Handle manual risk approvals within defined policy guardrails
- Monitor the active receivable portfolio, flag deteriorating exposure and draft recommendations for action
- Take on an ownership project over the term (e.g., reporting automation, dispute root-cause analysis)
your profile
- At least 2 years of professional experience in B2B credit, AR/AP, collections, or trade-credit insurance.
- Advanced proficiency with Excel/ Google Sheets (pivot tables, lookups) and general MS Office/Workspace tools.
- Excellent attention to detail, problem-solving ability, and analytical mindset
- Autonomous, curious, collaborative, and creative - willing to challenge the status quo
- Excellent communication skills, with English at C1 level and German at B2 level.
Bonus points if you have:
- A Bachelor's degree, preferably in Finance, Business Law, or a related field.
- Experience in business lending, Buy-Now-Pay-Later, payments, or ML-driven credit decisioning.
- Fluency in French, Italian, or Spanish (C1 level)
why us?
We ask you for nothing less than to help us to make a lasting change in how businesses do business. It's an invitation to an exciting journey with complex challenges, hard work and all the support needed to succeed as a team. Here is what we have for you:
- Minimum 28 days of holiday per year
- Dedicated personal development budget
- Permanent contract from the start
- Home office equipment support
- Choose your own hardware
- Flexible Benefit package (Spendit)
- Referral bonus
- Tilta Swag
- Company offsites
- Berlin Office with Barista
.. and most of all, growth opportunities