Margit Kass
Margit worked for 3 years at PwC before proceeding to Sociomantic Labs in Berlin. There she had her focus on building up the finance team, entering new markets, running a very detailed and tight cash-flow plan, and developing solutions to “survive” the exponential growth.
Her top-used word in the emails was “done!”. She simply gets things done.
Arvi Kass
The Team
"If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-team!"
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Long story short
After finishing universities with a finance degree we both got some very good experience as Financial Auditors in Big4 companies. From there we moved on to fast-growing Berlin startups which demanded more from us than we could provide. With a working-hard mentality and a belief, that there must be a better way, we started looking for solutions to our challenges and found it through MS PowerPivot and PowerQuery. Applying these for the finance workflows made everything faster and more automated. No more late nights in the office for us or our finance teams. Unless there was an office party, of course!
Our skills were noticed and more companies reached out for help. We were cleaning up finance backlogs, that had piled up for years, so that the companies could pass audits or receive funding; we automated systems for explosively growing startups, who could not handle the amount of transactions pouring in; we helped companies avoid hiring for any in-house finance experts by setting up systems that were so intuitive and easy to use, that anyone could handle it.
Through it all we gained valuable knowledge of the startup pain points, saw what worked and what did not and developed our solutions even further.
We saw the chaos that startups had due to founders lacking knowledge in finance. It almost seemed to be an industry standard, that startup finance is messy and only more established companies can afford proper solutions. Based on our work though we saw that it is exactly that early stage that requires setting up the right structure, efficient workflows, and smart solutions to minimize the need for in-house finance expertise and to avoid chaos while scaling. And we had all the solutions needed already at hand!
We believe we have managed to come up with such great solutions due to seeing the big picture: we have been accountants, financial auditors, financial consultants, and fast-growing startup CFOs. We know the needs and problems of all these parties. Together with extensive knowledge of controlling & management from our CIMA studies and expert technical knowledge (Excel and Google Sheets) we have designed solutions that are automatic, simple, reliable, audit-proof, and keep internal control process in mind. When developing we always think a step ahead to be ready for possible customizations and scaling.
We have a hands-on mentality and like doing things fast and effectively. We will not be sitting in your office for 5 months charging high daily rates. We will instead quickly find the best solution to your problem and implement it within a couple of days or weeks. We solve complex problems with smart tools.