Senior Accountant/Buchhalter (m/f/d)

What You’ll Do:

• Support day to day German accounting operations, ensuring accurate and timely bookkeeping
• Partner with external accounting providers and review local accounting deliverables
• Prepare and post journal entries (revenue, accruals, prepaids, payroll, invoices, intercompany, etc.)
• Support and improve month-end close and reconciliations (bank, AP/AR, etc.)
• Help manage and ensure compliance with: German payroll, Tax/compliance, Statutory reporting requirements
• Ensure clean documentation and internal controls in a fast-moving startup environment
• Support German GAAP year end reporting and liaise with auditors/advisors as needed
• Act as primary point of contact for limited office operations

What You’ll Bring:

• 5+ years experience in accounting (startup/scale up experience strongly preferred)
• Background as Senior Accountant / Buchhalter
• Strong understanding of German GAAP, German charts of accounts (SKR 03 or SKR 04), and debits & credits
• Utilize AI tools to streamline finance tasks, including DATEV and Excel
• Experience working with accounting software/ERP (posting journals, reconciliations, and close processes) and hands on accounting execution
• DATEV systems experience required; Netsuite, Everest and/or Quickbooks experience a plus
• Systems implementations experience a plus
• Familiarity with German payroll/tax/compliance topics (hands on or partner management) (VAT, OSS, corporate & trade tax, withholding tax, etc.)
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building processes from scratch
• Fluency in German (C1) and solid English skills (B2 - C1) (reading and writing)

Nice to Have:

• Experience as Steuerfachangestellter/in and/or Big 4 experience