Chief Finance Officer (CFO) (m/w/d) | 100 % Ehrenamt | 100 % Remote

The German Relief Association (DEHIB) is building a professional, high-performance honorary structure that is digitally and strategically controlled nationwide. People, culture, and organizational development are not secondary areas but central steering functions.

To further develop this architecture, we are looking for a Chief Finance Officer (CFO) at the C-level.

Note: The activity is honorary, uncompensated, and does not establish an employment relationship. It is suitable for various life phases, including alongside a job, and can serve personal and professional development. The time commitment lies at around 5 to 8 hours per week.

Aufgaben

• Total responsibility for strategic financial and capital management (€2.5 billion turnover target by 2040)
• Building, unifying, and continuously refining all existing and new business plans with numerical logic, scenarios, milestones, capital requirements, and impact indicators
• Development and steering of the overarching investment and capital strategy, including equity, debt, funding, and co-investment structures
• Active investor communication, preparation of the investment story, leadership of financial talks, and structured accompaniment of negotiations until closure
• Structuring of participation, financing, and co-investment models considering governance, liability, non-profit, and scalability
• Creation, steering, and monitoring of liquidity, financial, and multi-year planning on a federation-wide level as well as for consortium-like structures
• Sparring partner to the Federal Board regarding capital allocation, growth paths, risk assessment, and prioritization of strategic initiatives
• Preliminary preparation and conceptual accompaniment of the transfer of operational transaction and participation activities into a future holding structure
• Ensuring financial, legal, and accounting separation between the association and operating units according to the business allocation plan
• Strategic oversight of participations, subsidiaries, and connected entities including reporting standards, performance monitoring, and governance control

Qualifikation

• Multiple years of experience in a leading financial function, ideally as CFO, Finance Director, or Senior Finance Lead in growth-oriented organizations, participation structures, or complex consortia
• Demonstrated expertise in creating, evaluating, and developing business plans, financial models, and investment calculations including scenarios and sensitivity analyses
• Fundamental experience in investor communication, handling private and institutional capital providers, and preparing and accompanying financing rounds
• In-depth knowledge of structuring participation, financing, and co-investment models considering governance, liability, and long-term scalability
• Very good understanding of liquidity management, multi-year planning, capital allocation, and strategic financial management on a group or federation-wide level
• Experience in sparring with boards, CEOs, or committees regarding growth strategies, risk assessments, and investment decisions

Benefits

• Gestaltungsrole in the setup of a new systematic financing cycle for a modern social market economy that connects societal impact with economic market mechanisms
• Active participation in the shift away from purely subsidy-driven models towards sustainable, investment-capable, and scalable financial structures
• Opportunity to develop and shape an independent financial and capital model with exemplary character for civil society, politics, and the capital market
• Strategic influence on the connection of social welfare goals, capital discipline, and long-term value creation within a growing federation
• Positioning as an architectural key figure in a new order of social financing with high visibility and structural shaping authority

A letter to the Federal Board is advantageous. From this, it should emerge which relevant experience you bring in the area of finance, investments, or M&A and why you would like to take on this responsibility at the C-level.

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