Operations & Finance Manager (f/m/x)

Become part of Tanso and leverage your skills for climate impact. 

As Operations & Finance Manager, you are the right hand to the Head of Operations & Finance - a high-context, high-ownership generalist who helps run and scale Tanso's internal machine room. You thrive in ambiguity, move seamlessly between strategic topics and deep operational detail, and bring clarity, speed, and structure to whatever you take on. Whether it's leading a pricing project, building a budget model, rolling out a new system, or coordinating cross-functional initiatives - you do it with precision, intelligence, and impact. 

This is a mission-critical role for a high-agency individual who can operate with independence, credibility, and composure. You balance analytical rigor with strong execution and have the range to support across business intelligence, financial management, operational systems, and internal program delivery. Your work creates leverage across the company and enables the leadership team to operate at scale. 

• Drive high-priority projects across departments  

• Translate strategic ideas into operational plans and support successful execution 

• Independently scope, lead, and deliver internal improvement initiatives 

• Support financial planning, forecasting, and budget control across teams 

• Help manage vendor contracts, spend transparency, and procurement workflows 

• Contribute to investor reporting, cost tracking and financial narrative building 

• Support leadership routines and company-wide updates 

• Build strong cross-functional relationships to increase velocity and impact 

• Your work helps producing companies integrate sustainability in their decision making. You will directly influence how companies understand, act upon and report on sustainability. 

• You are joining the company in a phase of accelerated growth. With proven product-market fit, a growing base of reference customers, and strong market momentum, we’re scaling fast in a space that truly matters. 

• We expect a lot, but also offer you a highly competitive compensation package with an attractive equity package to participate in Tanso’s growth. 

• Our team thrives on embracing uncertainty. We work in cross-functional teams to tackle ambitious challenges, actively seek feedback, and are strong believers in interdisciplinary. 

• We’re a diverse group of people, and that diversity is what makes our experience extraordinary. With team members from various backgrounds, disciplines, and cultures, we bring unique perspectives to everything we do and are always eager to learn from each other. 

• We offer an environment that puts your needs first. You’ll get access to sponsored EGYM Wellpass to find inner peace at yoga or kill it at HIIT workouts with the team. 

• Our team is fun - we are convinced that work needs to be fun too. We are proud to have an outstanding team NPS and regularly organize team events to keep up the spirit. 

1. Get to know Tanso with the People Team - learn more about us, ask your questions, and let’s explore together whether it’s a mutual fit.
2. Role Introduction with the Head of Operations & Finance - understand your role and see whom you will be working with.
3. Deep dive with the Head of Operations & Finance and one of our founders + get to know the team - get a feeling for the tasks ahead of you and meet your future colleagues. 

• 2-4 years of experience in a high-performance environment (e.g. consulting, venture-backed tech, finance, or generalist ops roles) 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to build models, analyze drivers, and synthesize insights 

• Exceptionally fast thinker and executor - sees what needs to be done and moves quickly 

• Highly structured and organized, able to bring clarity to complexity 

• Strong sense of ownership - holds self accountable for results 

• Detail-oriented without losing the big picture 

• Languages: Fluent in English and German (C1 minimum) 

You're wondering why there isn't a longer list of hard requirements in the job description? We believe it's more important that you are excited about the role and want to grow with it, instead of fulfilling some specific high-level requirements. We think there can be numerous different paths that could qualify you for this role, and we want to hear YOUR story.