Head of Finance & Strategy

Insify
Amsterdam, Netherlands
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior finance professionals with consulting experience who thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments and are comfortable building systems from scratch in the insurance and fintech domains.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a hybrid background in finance and strategy consulting who enjoy shaping systems from the ground up.
    — “You've led projects in strategy or operations consulting, and you've also worked hands-on in a finance department, ideally at a scaleup.”
  • Individuals who are comfortable challenging assumptions and driving cross-departmental change in a regulated industry.
    — “Think along, push back. Be the sparring partner for every team. Challenge business cases, budgets and assumptions, including your own team's.”
  • Candidates who prefer working in a dynamic, customer-focused environment with a clear mission and growth trajectory.
    — “We're customer-obsessed. We love our team and culture because that's how we build better products.”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high level of autonomy and ownership, with limited reliance on pre-existing processes.
    — “You don’t need to book the entries yourself.”
  • Candidates must be fluent in English, with Dutch being a non-mandatory but valued skill.
    — “You work fluently in English; Dutch is a plus.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in automating financial processes and reducing reporting latency.
    — “Make the numbers instant. Automate our reporting so the MT steers on this week’s numbers, not last month's.”
  • Showcase ability to lead cross-functional change and improve interdepartmental collaboration.
    — “Lead change across teams. Own improvements that cut across departments, and take people with you.”
  • Emphasize your track record in strategic thinking and financial modeling, especially in regulated environments.
    — “You know accounting well enough to review a close, challenge a controller and spot what’s wrong in a P&L or a model.”
  • Demonstrate your capacity to coach and grow teams, not just manage them.
    — “Grow the team. Coach the team and shape how finance grows with us.”
  • Position yourself as a problem-solver who can implement solutions without needing a finished playbook.
    — “You spot the problem, propose the fix and make it happen.”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • automated financial reporting
  • monthly close and controls
  • cross-departmental improvements
Typical background
financestrategy consultingoperations

Skills & requirements

Required

Financial AnalysisStrategic PlanningProject ManagementTeam Leadership

Preferred

Insurance Industry ExperienceFintech Experience

Stack & domain

FinanceStrategyAutomationAccountingProject ManagementLeadershipProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamworkInsuranceFintech

About the role

Original posting from Insify via Lever

Most finance roles ask you to keep the books. This one asks you to build the finance engine of a fast-growing insurance company: fast numbers, clean controls and a plan to fund what's next.

Hands-on in the details. Strategic in the room.

Why we exist

Insurance is too complicated: slow claims, small print and clunky screens. We're changing the industry standard for entrepreneurs.

Instant. Money, help and clarity, right when customers need it.

Simple. Plain language and an app that just works.

With care. For our customers, and for each other.

We're customer-obsessed. We love our team and culture because that's how we build better products.

And it's a great time to join. We're 70+ people in Amsterdam, just launched in Ireland, and building multiple products across multiple countries at once. It's fast, and sometimes a bit chaotic, and you’ll have a real say in how we fix it. That's where you come in.

Why now? We’ve proven the model in the Netherlands and are scaling it across Europe. Ireland just went live, more markets are on the roadmap. The finance foundations we build in the next 12 months will decide how fast we can grow.

What you'll own in your first year:

  • Make the numbers instant. Automate our reporting so the MT steers on this week’s numbers, not last month's.
  • A close you can trust. Tighten the monthly close and controls so every entity runs cleanly. You also own the reporting that carriers, auditors and regulators rely on.
  • Think along, push back. Be the sparring partner for every team. Challenge business cases, budgets and assumptions, including your own team's.
  • Lead change across teams. Own improvements that cut across departments, and take people with you.
  • Grow the team. Coach the team and shape how finance grows with us.

Who you are:

  • You've led projects in strategy or operations consulting, and you've also worked hands-on in a finance department, ideally at a scaleup.
  • You know accounting well enough to review a close, challenge a controller and spot what’s wrong in a P&L or a model. You don’t need to book the entries yourself.
  • You take ownership. You spot the problem, propose the fix and make it happen.
  • You zoom in and out: deep in a reconciliation one hour, pitching a financing scenario the next.
  • You automate by default. Spreadsheets are a starting point, not a destination.
  • You bring energy and enjoy bringing structure to chaos.
  • (Nice to have) You bring experience in insurance, fintech or another regulated environment.
  • You work fluently in English; Dutch is a plus.

This role isn't for you if…:

  • You'd rather maintain a finance function than build one.
  • You prefer overseeing to doing.
  • You need a finished playbook before you start.

What we offer:

  • Real scope. You work directly with the MT, close to where decisions get made.
  • A business worth building. A mission customers feel and the chance to shape finance from the ground up.
  • A team that cares. We live by four values: Grit, Care, Impact and Entrepreneurship.
  • Growth. A role that grows with the company, plus an in-house coaching and leadership program.
  • The package. 100-140k depending on experience and scope + 6% pension, holidays, well-being budget and rich social internal events (ski trip, summer and winter party).
  • The basics, done well. Office in Amsterdam, laptop and hybrid working.

If you’d rather build the engine than maintain it, we’d like to meet you. No cover letter needed.

Source: Insify careers (Lever)

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