• Job Description

  Req#: R020323

  Grow with us - start your career at IU!

  Join our finance team immediately in full-time (40 hours/week) as Chief of Staff (m/f/d) at our location in London or remote.

  Your tasks:

  • Reporting directly to our international CFO, this position serves as an exclusive forum for individuals aspiring to excel in a position to lead divisions. It offers a unique opportunity to gain firsthand insights into the main projects and strategic decisions of the IU Group in UK and Canada, fostering accelerated professional growth and paving the way for future leadership responsibilities.
  • You will sit directly at the interface with our investors and actively shape the strategic discussions with them.
  • You will work closely with our C-level and senior management on a variety of exciting projects and tasks that you plan, coordinate, and implement independently (e.g. M&A, financing, pricing, investor relations).
  • Depending on the needs, you will also support M&A projects and integration processes, as well as help us organize and manage goals and key results (Objectives and Key Results, OKRs).
  • Preparing board meetings and investor meetings will also be part of your responsibilities.

  Your profile:

  • You are an ambitious individual with a high degree of initiative, strong business acumen, growth mindset, and well-developed analytical skills.
  • Strong interest in finance, banking, capital markets, and financial analysis.
  • Proactive and hands-on approach to challenges, as well as a team player with an independent and structured way of working.
  • Ideally, an outstanding degree from a top university, and preferably, some first-hand professional experience in a fast-paced and demanding environment (e.g. management consulting, private equity, rapidly growing startups, investment banking, venture capital, or similar).
  • You are communicative and enjoy collaborating with others to achieve greatness.

  We offer:

  • Design your ideal career and pathway: Explosive growth enables great opportunities. Tell us your dream career, and we will help you make it a reality.
  • Work from home, work from anywhere: We blur the lines between local and remote by embracing collaborative & video meeting technologies. Working from abroad for a while sounds good to you? No problem thanks to our WorkFlex benefit.
  • Flexible working times: It’s your call. We trust you will get things done. · Up level your education: Enjoy free up-skilling courses, language courses & discounted degree courses. There is always something new to learn!
  • Get a good rest: We push ourselves every day to go above and beyond. But we also take the time to recharge our batteries: with 30 days of annual vacation for all employees. Need some time off? How about a sabbatical?
  • Fruit baskets are yesterday, today we go for benefits that really count! Whether it's a job bike, employee discounts, company pension plan or net wage optimization: we're constantly working to get the most out of it for you.

  With over 100,000 students enrolled, IU Group, holding company behind IU - International University of Applied Sciences, is Germany’s largest private university group. IU provides a well-diversified mix of online degree courses, part-time studies and on-campus learning.

  Sounds like the perfect job for you? Then apply now! Simple, fast and even without a cover letter. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Philipp at philipp.kanceljak@iu.org.

  Actions speak louder than words: We cherish our "Culture of Everyone" and would like to take this opportunity to empathize that we do not tolerate discrimination towards any race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability. We welcome you as you are and look forward to nurturing our diverse community at the IU!

• About the company

  We at IU strongly believe, that an educational institution offering an environment of motivation, innovation and excellence is the key to a great study experience—and successful students. That is why we place a strong focus the on quality of our faculty, our courses, and our services. Our story started two decades ago, and it is far from finished. Every day, we strive to help you achieve your professional goals with flexible study programmes that suit you.

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