GL Accountant, Bilanzbuchhalter

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Assume professional responsibility for the preparation of bookkeeping and monthly closings, ensuring accuracy, promptness, and readiness for the final closing.

• Gradually transition bookkeeping tasks currently managed externally to internal handling.

• Take a significant role in the upcoming NetSuite implementation planned for around 2027.

• Develop processes, migrate data, and define system logic for NetSuite.

• Report to management and the parent company, SAMY Group.

• Offer subject-matter expertise and continue to enhance the accounting team's capabilities.

• Establish foundational processes, structure, automation, and reporting for the insourcing and NetSuite projects.

⛳️ Requirements

• Several years of extensive accounting experience in daily operations as well as in developing and scaling efficient processes.

• Proficient in preparing financial statements under HGB and capable of producing or preparing closing-ready documentation for the tax advisor.

• Degree in business or economics with a focus on accounting, or completed Bilanzbuchhalter qualification with equivalent substantial professional experience.

• Strong comprehension of profit & loss statements, balance sheets, and double-entry bookkeeping.

• Excellent IT proficiency.

• Confident in using Excel and Google Sheets.

• Ideally, possess user-level SQL skills.

• Required experience with ERP systems—preferably NetSuite—in both process design and operational usage.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, coupled with the ability to prioritize conflicting requests and adhere to tight deadlines.

• Business-level proficiency in both German and English (negotiation-level).

• Confident and pragmatic application of AI tools.

• Ability to independently structure and manage dynamic situations.

• Capability to provide technical leadership without direct personnel oversight.

• High tolerance for hands-on work.

• Independent, structured, reliable, and results-oriented work style in a remote environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Structured onboarding process.

• Personal mentor and access to educational resources.

• MacBook, iPhone, and the latest Apple technology.

• Annual professional development budget for workshops, seminars, certified courses, or coaching.

• Up to six weeks of remote work per year within the EU.

• Flexible working-time arrangements.

• Additional leave for relocation or significant life events (e.g., bereavement).

• Day off for birthdays.

• Holidays on December 24 and December 31.

• Surprises for birthdays and anniversaries.

• Membership with Urban Sports Club.

• Mental health sessions with psychologists or coaches via nilo.health.

• Access for up to five family members through nilo.health.

• Partner discounts, including plantclub and FutureBens.

• Option to choose a Givve Card with €50 monthly credit.

• Option to select Mobiko with a €65 monthly mobility budget.

• Choice of company pension plan with a €50 monthly employer contribution.

• Dog-friendly office environment.

• Complimentary snacks, fruit, and beverages in the office.