Financial Controller
Pandas | Athens, Greece (hybrid)
Pandas is the AI-powered experience layer in device circularity. Our KYD™ platform does for devices what KYC did for banks: specialist AI agents grade every component, delivering the same result every time. We power customer-led journeys across retail, web, and in-app for trade-in, device protection, and claim validation, with no queues, no friction, and no app downloads. Our platform is deployed with tier-1 mobile operators and major retailers across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia.
We’re hiring a Financial Controller to own finance at Pandas. You’ll decide how the function runs, keep it accurate and compliant, and work closely with our BI, Customer Success, and C-level teams. You’ll have a seat in the decisions that matter: where Pandas spends, where it grows, and what the numbers say we should do next. This is a role with real ownership and real influence.
The role
Planning, reporting, and insight
- Own the annual budget and long-term financial plan
- Work with department heads to build their budgets and keep them on track through the year
- Run scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis, turn the results into strategic recommendations
- Produce monthly and quarterly reporting for investors and the board, partnering with Data & BI on dashboards
- Track burn rate and runway, flag problems early
- Use AI-driven tools to improve forecasting and spot trends
Cash, treasury, and capital
- Build and maintain short- and long-term cash flow forecasts
- Run collections and treasury across entities: liquidity planning, cash optimisation
- Maintain the cap table and support equity and investor matters, including option grants, investor reporting, and finance readiness for future raises
Multi-entity finance and compliance
- Own finance across the group’s international entities, keep each one accurate and audit-ready
- Manage intercompany transactions, reconciliations, and transfer pricing
- Prepare consolidated group reporting
- Design and run internal financial controls
- Handle tax, payroll, and statutory compliance in every jurisdiction, working with external auditors and tax advisors
- Be the internal point of contact on finance-related legal, contractual, and vendor matters
International payroll and daily operations
- Run payroll across multiple countries: accurate, on time, compliant, with local providers managed
- Own AP and AR, invoice payments, reconciliations, and employee reimbursements
- Evaluate and bring in AI-powered tools for invoicing, expense management, and consolidation
Who this is for
- 5–8 years in finance, accounting, or FP&A
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics
- Strong command of Greek and UK tax, payroll, and accounting standards
- Experience owning finance across multiple international entities, including intercompany accounting and consolidation
- Hands-on international payroll experience across multiple countries
- Comfortable in a lean startup or scale-up environment
- Fluent with AI-powered finance tools and keen to adopt new ones
- High integrity, dependable, strong ownership mindset. Someone Pandas can trust to run finance independently
- Clear communicator, comfortable with senior stakeholders and the investor community
Nice to have
- CPA/ACCA, or a Master’s in a relevant field
- Experience through a funding round, audit, or standing up finance in a scaling company
- Track record implementing finance systems or process automation
Setup
- Based in Athens, Greece. Hybrid: mix of home and our Athens office
- Pandas is headquartered in London, UK and Athens, Greece
- Competitive base plus performance incentive and long-term growth potential
- Reports to the COO
