Principal Accountant (m/f/d)

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •8+ years of progressive corporate accounting experience
• •multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation
• •solid technical grounding in German GAAP (HGB) and IFRS group reporting
• •certification equivalent to the CPA in the U.S.
• •Hands-on, in-depth LucaNet or NetSuite consolidation experience

Desired Qualifications

• •German or broader European accounting exposure
• •You have the technical depth and independent judgment to bring real value to a function like this
• •You feel comfortable solving the puzzle
• •You are happy to dive right in and learn
• •Your mind naturally maps out how entity hierarchies, intercompany elimination rules, chart-of-accounts and segment mappings, and currency translation setup connect
• •You find satisfaction in double-teaming with our Group Senior Accountant to transition our consolidations from LucaNet to NetSuite
• •You take a co-leading role in standing up NetSuite consolidation from the ground up
• •You review the full set of consolidated financial statements prepared monthly by our Group Senior Accountant under German GAAP (HGB) and IFRS
• •You maintain clear preparer/reviewer segregation of duties
• •Your curiosity is boundless
• •You genuinely love untangling complex problems
• •You know how to leverage balance sheet reconciliation and variance analysis to understand our financial position
• •You work with the rest of the accounting team to bring reconciliation up to date
• •You maintain the rigor of the monthly close
• •You produce our quarterly balance sheet briefing binder
• •You cover variance analysis, balance sheet KPIs, and operational insights
• •You have the opportunity to contribute to our ongoing automation program
• •You are driven to see it make a tangible difference
• •You are passionate about understanding the 'why' behind our processes and controls
• •You help design, implement and improve end-to-end processes across R2R, H2R, P2P and O2C
• •You gather input from affected stakeholders before rolling out changes
• •You are a master of written communication
• •You maintain clear documentation and audit trails for ongoing compliance matters
• •You act as a responsive, solution-oriented point of contact for Finance, Legal, People Ops, and business stakeholders
• •You acknowledge requests quickly with a clear timeline
• •You deliver on it
• •You have judgement and empathy for both business partners and peers
• •You take a consultative approach to explaining and applying accounting requirements
• •You understand a business partner's operational context first
• •You tailor how a rule gets implemented
• •You communicate all of this excellently in both German and English
• •You are a genuinely independent operator with a considerable scope of influence
• •You can pick up hard, ambiguous problems and run with them independently
• •You work cross-regionally with the North America accounting team
• •You cross-train with the existing European Accounting team
• •You deliver solutions that are robust at every step of the process lifecycle
• •You establish or improve processes and controls in a fast-growth environment with evolving systems and imperfect data
• •You remain committed to pragmatic, elegant simplicity
• •You act as a strong day-to-day partner to eyeo's external tax advisors on German trade tax, VAT, and wage tax matters
• •You use your working knowledge of German tax compliance to help ensure accurate, on-time filings
• •You reason from first principles about what could be done to identify what should be done, why and how
• •You independently resolve multi-year audit backlogs or comparable remediation projects
• •You use data to isolate problems
• •You use balance sheet KPIs and variance analysis to surface what needs attention
• •You use data to prioritize which problems should be tackled
• •You confirm that the solutions you ship actually land as intended