About the Position

M&A Integration Manager

Munich, Germany

About Us

Helsing is a defence AI company dedicated to protecting democracies. Our mission is to achieve technological leadership, ensuring open societies can make sovereign decisions and uphold ethical standards. We believe in the responsible development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI.

We are a team of engineers, AI specialists, and programme managers committed to solving complex problems. Our open and transparent culture encourages healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and ethical implications.

The Role

As the M&A Integration Manager for Finance, you will lead the integration of acquired entities, ensuring they are financially operational within thirty days and fully integrated within one hundred. Your role is crucial in achieving integration speed, which directly impacts deal value.

You will be responsible for building and maintaining the Finance Integration Playbook, coordinating Day 1 and Day 100 deliverables, and partnering with acquired entities' leadership to ensure a smooth transition.

Responsibilities

Own the Finance Integration Playbook: Covering ERP migration, chart of accounts alignment, intercompany setup, treasury onboarding, and control framework extension for every acquired entity.
Lead Finance Planning and Execution: Managing Day 1 deliverables including opening balance sheet, banking migration, and payroll transition, and Day 100 deliverables in coordination with the Principal SAP Finance & Data.
Conduct Finance Due Diligence: Including financial model sense-checks, hidden liability audits, data quality assessments, and Day 1 readiness checklists drafted pre-signing, and track synergy realisation from Day 1 with clear, structured reporting to senior stakeholders.
Partner with ICS Lead: To extend Helsing's control framework to every new entity within ninety days of close, ensuring controls are operational rather than notional.
Use AI Agents: To accelerate finance due diligence, including auto-classification of trial balance anomalies and flagging of revenue-recognition risks, and deploy LLM-powered document synthesis to produce integration status reports, Day 1 checklists, and synergy tracking dashboards.

Requirements

Experience: Have led finance integrations end-to-end as the primary integration lead on multiple transactions, managing ERP migrations, chart of accounts harmonisation, multi-entity consolidation, and intercompany reconciliation from signing through to steady state.
Knowledge: Understand deal mechanics in depth, including SPAs, completion accounts, locked-box structures, and representations and warranties.
Technical Skills: Have worked with SAP during cutover periods and are comfortable with finance data migration tooling such as LSMW, LTMC, or the S/4HANA migration cockpit.
Relationships: Build effective working relationships across acquired company leadership, SAP specialists, legal counsel, and internal Finance and Engineering teams simultaneously, and structure integration status clearly for senior stakeholders.
Qualification: Hold a professional qualification such as CPA, ACA, or equivalent.

Note: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.

Nice to Have

Experience: Experience in defence, deep-tech, or regulated cross-border M&A, where compliance and data sensitivity add complexity to integration.
Skills: Familiarity with AI-assisted due diligence tooling for trial balance analysis, accounting policy review, or data quality assessment, and working knowledge of German at a business level.

What We Offer

Competitive Salary and VSOP options
Relocation Support: Up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
Health & Wellness: Gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
Social: Regularly company events and monthly social allowances
Enhanced Parental Leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers.
Family Support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

These are the core benefits across all locations, there may be additional benefits in certain locations.

Join Helsing

At Helsing, you'll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing ethical and geopolitical concerns. Our work is unique, operating in a domain with highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world.

We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it. Teams and individual engineers are trusted (and encouraged) to practise responsible autonomy and critical thinking, and to focus on outcomes, not conformity. At Helsing you will have a say in how we (and you!) work, the opportunity to engage on what does and doesn’t work, and to take ownership of aspects of our culture that you care deeply about.

Equal Opportunities Employer

Helsing is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity. Please do not submit personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, data concerning your health, or data concerning your sexual orientation.

Helsing's Candidate Privacy and Confidentiality Regime can be found here.

M&A Integration Manager

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