(Senior) Director of FP&A (m/w/d)

Munich Headquarters

Full-time

Permanent employee

Why we need you

Maltego is a leading provider of intelligence software used globally by security professionals, investigators, and analysts. Our all-in-one platform empowers users to discover, visualize, and analyze complex relationships in data, enabling faster and more accurate decision-making. Our core products—Search, Graph, Evidence, and Monitor—are trusted by law enforcement, cybersecurity teams, and corporate investigators worldwide.

Maltego is seeking a (Senior) Director of FP&A to report directly to the CFO and drive company-wide financial planning, budgeting, and performance management. The role demands deep finance and business acumen and a track record in a private-equity-owned (or VC-backed) environment. Key objectives include optimizing enterprise-wide financial performance, streamlining processes, and ensuring that budgets and forecasts reflect strategic goals.

What to expect

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Financial Planning: Lead the annual budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling processes. Oversee all FP&A cycles and analyses, ensuring rigorous forecasting and in-depth analysis of company-wide performance to support strategic decision-making.
Performance Management: Develop and track enterprise-wide KPIs and metrics across all departments to drive continuous performance improvement. Identify opportunities to improve business performance and operational efficiency through targeted initiatives.
Business Partnering & Communication: Serve as a key finance partner to Sales, Product, Engineering, HR, and other teams. Provide actionable financial insights and build reporting tools to improve transparency. Present financial results and recommendations through board/investor packs clearly and persuasively to senior leaders and private equity stakeholders.
Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop the small FP&A team, including one FP&A Manager, fostering a culture of high performance. Ensure the team has the skills and resources needed to support the company’s objectives.
Process Improvement & Tools: Champion continuous improvement of financial processes and systems. Lead the rollout of advanced planning tools (e.g., Anaplan or similar FP&A software) to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and timeliness of budgeting and reporting.
Executive Reporting: Prepare executive-level financial reports and board materials. Ensure the CFO and executive team have clear visibility into forecasts, variance analysis, and key performance drivers.

Your profile in short

Required Qualifications

Industry Experience: 10+ years of progressive finance experience across FP&A, corporate finance, investment banking, and/or M&A. Ideally, experience within a fast-paced SaaS environment, complemented by a background in investment banking, transaction advisory, or corporate development/M&A. Proven success in a private-equity-owned or VC-backed environment is required.
M&A & Strategic Finance: Demonstrated experience supporting acquisitions, divestitures, due diligence processes, valuation analysis, financial modeling, and post-merger integration activities. Ability to evaluate strategic growth opportunities and provide financial leadership on corporate transactions.
Technical Skills: Expert in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, business performance analysis, and investment case development. Proficiency with ERP and financial planning systems; experience implementing enterprise planning tools (e.g., Anaplan) is highly desirable.
Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with senior leadership, board members, investors, private equity stakeholders, and external advisors.
Leadership & Collaboration: Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor teams, and partner effectively across all business functions. Strong executive presence and confidence working with C-level executives, investors, and transaction stakeholders.

This (Senior) Director of FP&A will be a strategic finance leader driving Maltego’s overall financial health and operational efficiency. The successful candidate will combine strong analytical skills with excellent communication and leadership abilities to improve performance across the entire company.

Why you will love Maltego

Here are some of the reasons why you will love Maltego:

Work closely with Product, Marketing, and Sales on meaningful go-to-market initiatives.
Contribute to clear, high-quality messaging for a global user base of investigators and analysts.
Gain experience in a fast-growing tech scale-up across the private and public sectors.
Join an inclusive and diverse team that values your ideas and supports your growth.
Access supported language courses for continued learning.
Receive mental health support via .nilo, including psychologists and digital tools.

At Maltego, we are committed to supporting diversity and inclusion in our organization. We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

Location

Our Munich office

Required documents / information

Please submit a resume and a cover letter detailing your experience and motivation to be part of Maltego!

About us

Maltego is the all-in-one investigation platform that accelerates complex cyber and OSINT investigations from hours to minutes. The Maltego platform powers preliminary quick OSINT investigations for digital profiling with Maltego Search as well as complex link analysis for large datasets with Maltego Graph. Through Maltego Evidence and Maltego Monitor, the platform enables investigators to collect, monitor, and preserve social media intelligence in real-time for prosecution and public safety. Whether cyber threat intelligence teams or law enforcement, Maltego equips your teams with the most essential and relevant data, with out-of-the-box access to common data sources and over 100 ready-made connectors to more. Mine, merge, and map all your essential intelligence in one place, and uncover hidden truths with Maltego!

Learn more about how we can empower your investigations at www.maltego.com.