Financial Auditor – Customer Growth

About Cortea

We're Cortea, a European audit-tech company, born in Berlin, rebuilding how audits are done everywhere.

Audits are still driven by spreadsheets, checklists, and manual reviews in one of the most regulated, high-stakes areas of business. We use AI to automate audits end to end, so highly educated auditors no longer spend 60+ hour weeks on manual work and can focus on judgment, trust, and choices that matter.

With €15m+ in funding, a live product, and paying customers across Europe, we're at a stage where your choices will directly shape Cortea's future, and how audits are done.

The Role

This is a role for an experienced auditor who enjoys the client side of the profession: building relationships, leading discussions, and earning the trust of sceptical practitioners. As part of Cortea's UK go-to-market team, you are the subject-matter expert who gives our commercial work credibility: you speak with auditors as a peer, lead methodology conversations with prospects and customers, and help turn pilots into long-term partnerships. Colleagues own the sales playbook, forecasting, and deal mechanics, while you own trust, expertise, and account growth.

Key Responsibilities

Audit Expertise: Act as the audit subject-matter expert in Cortea's UK go-to-market unit, joining demos, pilots, and customer conversations as the credible auditor in the room

Customer Relationships & Growth: Be a key point of contact for our UK customers throughout pilots and rollouts; deepen relationships at existing customers, identify upsell opportunities, and lead methodology conversations that grow accounts

Industry Voice: Build a visible public presence for Cortea: be active on LinkedIn, speak at industry events, and evangelise AI-supported auditing to the UK profession

Market Insight: Feed customer and market insight back to our product team to sharpen the UK roadmap

Berlin Collaboration: Travel regularly to our Berlin hub to work closely with the founders and go-to-market colleagues

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of financial audit experience (Big 4 or leading mid-tier firms preferred)

ACA (ICAEW), ACCA, or equivalent chartered accountancy qualification

A confident, client-facing communicator: you enjoy presenting, networking, and representing your firm publicly, including at events and on LinkedIn

Comfortable taking ownership in a young, fast-moving company: you handle ambiguity well, work towards clear commercial targets, and enjoy building processes rather than following established ones

Strong grasp of ISA, UK GAAP, IFRS, and the Companies Act 2006, enough to hold your own in methodology discussions with partners

Native in English, German is a plus

Right to work in the UK required; we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role

Benefits

Competitive salary plus equity participation

High-impact role at the intersection of audit and AI, with the chance to build Cortea's UK customer base and public presence

Hybrid collaboration from our London office, with regular trips to our Berlin hub

25+ days holiday allowance

Pension contribution

Private medical insurance

Interview Process

Intro call with Tim (Founders Associate)

Technical audit interview with Philipp (Co-Founder)

GTM & Collaboration Fit interview with Valentin (Co-Founder)

On-site session (Berlin): run a mock methodology conversation with a sceptical audit partner, focused on credibility, objection handling, and expansion thinking