Job Description

• Working with purpose – Your work has a real impact on patients, their relatives, and healthcare professionals.
• Company culture – We rely on flat hierarchies that promote high performance and strong team dynamics. We foster an environment of mutual respect, loyalty, and recognition and aim for our goals together, expecting the same from you.
• Flexibility – Need to pick up your child from daycare? Like to exercise at lunch? We support you. We are a remote-friendly company with flexible working hours. Workations are possible upon agreement.
• Edenred card – to use according to your needs.
• Additional vacation day – You get your birthday off to celebrate with loved ones.

Responsibilities and Growth Opportunities:

• You lead and develop our accounting team (currently 2 FTE): regular 1:1s, performance reviews, continuous feedback, and mentoring.
• You promote the professional and personal development of your team through coaching, training, and clear development plans.
• You scale the team, define roles/playbooks, and are responsible for hiring, onboarding, and coaching.

• You lead and work hands-on with our accounting team (currently 2 FTE) and are responsible for O2C, P2P, and R2R end-to-end – precise, timely, and scalable.
• You own the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing (HGB) including closing calendar, reviews, accruals, GL quality.
• You lead the audit process end-to-end and drive our IFRS readiness forward.
• You build accounting and tax structures for new countries (VAT, intercompany flows, statutory filings) in cooperation with external advisors.
• You lead the NetSuite or similar implementation (multi-entity, AP/AR, fixed assets, intercompany, tax) – including chart of accounts harmonization, process standardization, and automation.
• You establish an internal controls framework (SOX-lite), document processes, define controls, and ensure evidencing & testing.
• You work closely with FP&A (variance analysis, working capital, cash flow transparency).

Requirements

• You have a degree in accounting, finance, or business administration or a comparable qualification (certified accountant, ACCA, CPA, WP, etc.).
• You have 7–10 years of professional experience in accounting, including 2–3 years in a leading, hands-on role as a team lead, successfully leading and developing teams (ideally in SaaS/Tech/Scale-up environment).
• You possess excellence in HGB and experience in consolidation as well as practical ownership of monthly and annual financial statements.
• You have audit ownership (end-to-end) – including key controls, PBC, findings & remediation and are familiar with IFRS.
• You have solid experience with DATEV; experience with NetSuite or a similar ERP system is a big plus – as is experience in implementing such systems.
• You have international & tax experience with VAT, intercompany, statutory filings, and tax calendars (in cooperation with external advisors).
• You have advanced Excel/Sheets skills, are tech-savvy, and process & automation-oriented.
• You communicate confidently in German and English and enjoy working in international teams.
• You are detail-oriented, structured, proactive, and actively seek ways to simplify and digitize processes.