Senior Finance Specialist

Summary

Join Dealfront's dynamic international accounting team as a Senior Finance Specialist! Based remotely, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the financial operations of our German entities. Key responsibilities include preparing and reconciling monthly financial statements, ensuring compliance with HGB accounting principles, and managing daily accounting tasks. The ideal candidate possesses a strong accounting background, profound knowledge of HGB, and experience with ERP systems. We offer a flexible work schedule, remote work opportunities, and a supportive international team environment.

Requirements

• Certified accountant or Bachelor's or Master's degree in the field of tax, accounting or finance
• Vocational training as a tax advisor or any other commercial vocational training and several years of experience as a financial accountant
• Profound knowledge of HGB to ensure compliance with local regulations and standards
• Basics of international accounting and consolidation
• Good knowledge of ERP and other accounting systems
• Ideally experience in Netsuite and Payhawk, SAP or Workday
• Ability to work independently, in a structured and quality-oriented manner
• Natural affinity with numbers and an analytical mindset
• Ability to interpret financial data and use it as a basis for decision-making processes
• Fluent in written and spoken German (C2) and English

Responsibilities

• Prepare the monthly financial statements with a focus on the German entities and their subsidiaries on Germany accounting standards in accordance with HGB for the German companies and ensure that they comply with German accounting principles
• Ensuring completeness, accuracy, transparency of period closings
• Reconciliation of general ledger and sub-ledgers including payroll, prepayments and fixed assets
• Correct accrual and amortization of income and expenses, including the reconciliation of prepaid expenses of the German entities and ensuring that the individual items are correctly recognised and amortized
• Daily accounting tasks like entry of vendor bills, travel expenses, and bank payments
• Fixed asset accounting and ensuring that fixed assets are correctly recognised and depreciated
• Preparing and reconciling the advance VAT returns for the german entities and ensuring the correct VAT treatment of purchase and sales invoices
• Project work like improvement of our internal policies, processes and systems

Preferred Qualifications

SaaS experience

Benefits

• The chance to work with a very knowledgeable, high-achieving and fun team
• An international, diverse, dynamic and committed work environment
• The opportunity to work remotely, with a flexible work schedule
• Mental Health support with Auntie
• Annual company retreats in sunny locations and team off-sites