Accounts Payable Lead

Have substantive experience in an Accounts Payable function and have taken on people or functional leadership responsibility — with a track record of developing teams and improving performance

Have deep, practical knowledge of the end-to-end Procure-to-Pay process, including expense management, and can demonstrate having owned this cycle in a complex, multi-entity or multi-location environment

Are proficient in one or more leading ERP systems (e.g. SAP, DATEV, MS Dynamics) and have worked with modern invoice approval and workflow tools

Have contributed to or led a finance systems implementation or process automation project, and can take ownership of similar initiatives at Helsing

Bring a highly structured and precise approach to financial operations, paired with the judgement to resolve ambiguous or complex situations pragmatically

Are fluent in both German and English, enabling you to communicate with confidence across Helsing's international supplier base and internal stakeholder community

Note: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.

Hands-on experience with specialist procurement, expense, or AP automation platforms (e.g. Coupa, Ariba, Basware, xSuite, TravelPerk, Concur)

Working knowledge of national and international VAT legislation, including mechanisms such as reverse charge

Experience contributing to or managing Shared Service Centre (SSC) operations

Prior involvement in ERP implementation or broader finance transformation programmes

Prior experience working in a defence, deep tech, or high-growth technology environment

Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns

The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world

Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental: Helsing is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward

In our domain, success is a matter of order-of-magnitude improvements and novel capabilities. This means we take bets, aim high, and focus on big opportunities. Despite being a relatively young company, Helsing has already been selected for multiple significant government contracts

We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it. Teams and individual engineers are trusted (and encouraged) to practise responsible autonomy and critical thinking, and to focus on outcomes, not conformity. At Helsing you will have a say in how we (and you!) work, the opportunity to engage on what does and doesn’t work, and to take ownership of aspects of our culture that you care deeply about