Interim Head of Finance

At Insify, we build insurance for entrepreneurs because we are entrepreneurs ourselves. We know what it’s like to build something from scratch, to take risks, and to carry responsibility that doesn’t switch off at 5 pm.

Our mission is simple but ambitious: to make business insurance 10x simpler, faster, and fairer for entrepreneurs and SMEs across Europe. No paperwork. No fine print. No legacy complexity. Just modern software, smart automation, and a relentless focus on the customer.

We are a high-growth European scale-up, backed by €43M from world-class investors, on a mission to become a global leader in digital insurance for entrepreneurs and SMEs. Starting in the Netherlands, we’ve expanded into France and Germany, and we’re only accelerating from here.

At our core, we’re a tech company. We build our own insurtech platform and rely heavily on data, automation, and AI to redesign the end-to-end insurance experience:  from underwriting to claims. Combined with a fully digital customer portal and strong UX, we’re turning insurance into something surprisingly simple, transparent, and fair.

We’re led by seasoned entrepreneurs who’ve built and scaled companies before, and we bring that same ambition, urgency, and ownership mindset to everything we do.

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Our culture (read this carefully)

We’re not just building a company, we’re building a category leader. That comes with ambition, responsibility, and pace.

Our culture is defined by three things:

• High ownership
  People own problems end-to-end. If something is unclear or broken, we don’t wait — we step in and fix it.

• High pace
  Priorities shift, and decisions are made quickly. We value momentum and learning over perfection.

• High standards
  Outcomes matter more than optics. We care about results, quality, and follow-through.

At the same time, you won’t be doing this alone.

We believe great work happens through close collaboration. We work in-person, challenge each other’s ideas, and expect contributions from everywhere, regardless of title or tenure. The best ideas often come from unexpected places, and we create space for them to surface.

This is a human-sized company. You’ll know the people you work with, you’ll be able to walk over to anyone to ask a question or test an idea, and you’ll be part of the day-to-day energy of building together:  from whiteboard discussions to shared lunches, dogs in the office, and moments to pause and reset.

We hire smart, ambitious people who think like owners, value intellectual honesty, and are motivated by impact rather than comfort. If you enjoy challenge, responsibility, and building something meaningful with others, you’ll likely thrive here.

If you’re looking for predictability, narrow scopes, or a guaranteed 9-to-5, this likely won’t be the right fit — and that’s okay. We’d rather be honest upfront.

Your Mission

In particular you will:

Run and stabilise our finance operations from day one across accounting, cash management, tax, compliance, and business partnering, keeping the function fully operational throughout the interim period and leaving it in a stronger, well-documented state.

• Take immediate ownership of the monthly close, budgeting, and forecasting cycles, and turn the output into decisions the leadership team can act on

• Own our reporting to risk carriers and stay ahead of regulatory and statutory obligations across NL, FR, and DE

• Partner with the CEO and exec team on board materials, investor updates, and the financial story behind the strategy

• Be genuinely hands-on with the AI and automation layer in finance: pull your own data, build your own reports, and replace manual work where you can

• Prepare and review the annual financial statements

• Lead first-year statutory audit preparation end to end

• Run payroll

• Document processes and ensure a clean handover to the permanent hire

This is a strong fit if you

• Have 8+ years in finance, combining a foundation in Big 4 (audit, M&A, or transaction services) with operational finance in a fast-moving tech company

• Read a balance sheet with a commercial lens, not just an accounting one

• Have run the full close-to-report cycle and tightened the underlying processes as you went

• Are technically self-sufficient: you write your own SQL, model in Excel, and use AI tools to remove finance grunt work

• Operate as a real business partner across product, ops, and commercial, not as a back-office gatekeeper

What we offer

• Competitive compensation that reflects responsibility and impact

• Trust and autonomy: you’ll have real ownership and room to make decisions
  Space to grow and shape your role as Insify evolves, based on your interests and strengths

• A steep learning curve, with support from experienced teammates

• The opportunity to share in what we’re building, with equity for eligible roles once there’s mutual conviction on fit and impact

• A welcoming, central Amsterdam HQ where we work closely together: shared lunches, dogs in the office, whiteboards, and fun end-of-week drinks

• An international, ambitious team that enjoys building meaningful things together