Finance Lead (Head of Financial Operations – Full Mandate)

At MegaCool Technologies, we are solving the most physical bottleneck in the AI revolution: Heat. While data center cooling is reaching its physical limits, we've developed our ultra-performant Smartfins technology in thermal management using proprietary generative algorithms.
We are a lean, fast-moving startup bridging high-level software intelligence with massive-scale
hardware manufacturing. With our HQ in Belgium, a newly incorporated US branch, and state-of-the-art testing labs underway, we are moving fast to clear the industry's biggest energy bottleneck. If you want to build a global financial engine from scratch with zero red tape you belong here.

As Finance Lead, you will architect and own MegaCool's financial engine.

You will have a full mandate across our European headquarters and US operations, combining strategic financial leadership with hands-on operational execution. This is not a role where you simply oversee an existing finance function—you will build and shape it.

You will work directly with the founders as a strategic partner, particularly throughout upcoming VC fundraising rounds, building investor-ready financial models, data rooms, reporting structures, and funding strategies that support the company's international expansion.

As MegaCool grows, this role has a clear path toward a broader executive finance mandate.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and own the finance function: Design and implement a modern, scalable, and highly automated finance infrastructure across our US and European entities.
• Own financial operations end-to-end: Maintain oversight of transaction processing, accounts payable and receivable, invoicing, payments, cash management, and working capital across all operating entities.
• Partner with the founders on fundraising: Build and maintain institutional-quality financial models and investor data rooms, support due diligence, and evaluate both equity and non-dilutive financing opportunities.
• Lead financial reporting: Manage financial reporting for subsidized projects and coordinate applications for new public funding and grant opportunities.
• Own cash flow and treasury: Develop multi-currency cash flow forecasts, manage liquidity and treasury activities, and provide clear visibility into the company's financial position.
• Drive efficient month-end closing: Coordinate with international accountants and tax advisors to ensure accurate, timely, and frictionless monthly and annual closings.

What You Bring

The Essentials

• Proven experience building or transforming finance functions within high-growth, venture-backed startups. You thrive in environments where speed and ownership matter more than legacy processes.
• Strong expertise in financial modeling, unit economics, cash flow management, and fundraising support, including preparation and management of investor data rooms.
• A hands-on approach to finance. You understand that strong financial control starts with knowing the details—from payment flows and invoices to cash movements and working capital.
• Solid experience managing multi-entity, international operations, ideally across the US and Europe.
• Experience selecting and implementing modern, lean financial systems and tools, with a strong focus on automation, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• The ability to operate at both levels: strategic enough to advise founders and hands-on enough to build the processes yourself.

The Extra Mile

• Experience in deep-tech, hardware, manufacturing, industrial technology, or other capital-intensive business models.
• Familiarity with US and European tax, accounting, and corporate structures.
• Experience with government grants, subsidies, R&D funding, or other non-dilutive financing mechanisms.

Why Join MegaCool?

Real Ownership & Full Mandate

There is no legacy finance organization to untangle and no bureaucracy slowing you down. You get a clean slate and the autonomy to build a modern finance function from the ground up.

Executive Trajectory

You will work directly with the founders and have a genuine opportunity to expand your mandate as the company scales—potentially evolving into a broader executive finance leadership role.

Tangible Impact

Your work will directly enable the global scaling of technology designed to address one of the AI industry's biggest physical challenges: its enormous energy and cooling footprint.

Global Scope

From our Belgian headquarters to our US operations, you will build financial infrastructure for a company with global ambitions from day one.

High Velocity, High Impact

You will work alongside the senior leadership team in an environment where decisions are made quickly, ideas are tested rapidly, and your work has a visible impact on the company's growth, fundraising, and international expansion.

If you want to build the financial backbone of a deep-tech company shaping the next generation of AI infrastructure, MegaCool is ready for you.