Head of Finance

About the Role

Spott is a YC-backed AI startup on a mission to transform recruitment. We're building the first AI-native recruitment platform (ATS & CRM) that empowers recruiters to close more placements. As Head of Finance, you will build and own the finance function from scratch, working directly with founders and driving international scale-up. This is a high-ownership role for someone who thrives in ambiguity and wants to define the financial backbone of a fast-growing company.

Responsibilities

• Build our international finance stack from zero: pick and implement accounting, billing, spend, and payroll tools, and connect them so numbers flow without manual work.
• Own billing end to end, from subscription logic to revenue recognition to reconciliation against the ledger.
• Run the monthly close, cash, and compliance together with our external accountant.
• Produce a monthly reporting pack the founders and investors actually use.
• Build and own the financial model, budget, and rolling forecast, and turn our SaaS metrics into a single source of truth.
• Be the person founders consult before spending or adding headcount.
• Decide what to automate, what to outsource, and what to hire, then build the team behind you.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Economics, Business, Finance, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in banking or a finance/FP&A role at a startup/scale-up, with work you personally owned.
• Strong accounting fundamentals: you can close a month, read a P&L and balance sheet critically, and explain what moved and why.
• Hands-on with finance systems and comfortable making them talk to each other: accounting software, Stripe, banking, expense, and payroll tools. You automate rather than maintain spreadsheets.
• High ownership and comfort with ambiguity. You build the process, then improve it.
• Clear, confident verbal and written communication skills in English. Dutch or French is a plus.

What We Offer

• A true founding role: you build the finance function of a fast-growing, category-defining company, and own it as we scale.
• Direct access to founders and board-level reporting from day one.
• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Work at a YC-backed startup where speed and impact matter.
• Primarily on-site at our Leuven office, with work-from-home flexibility.
• Great team vibe with regular dinners and international offsites.
• Join a high-growth company with an extremely talented and ambitious team, and apply even if you don't match all criteria.