Senior Finance Operations Leader – Accounting

Role Overview

Lead the accounting and treasury organisation behind Taxfix’s growing multi-country business, creating reliable, scalable, and well-controlled finance operations across Group and statutory accounting, month-end and year-end close, consolidation, audit readiness, treasury, and core Record-to-Report processes.

What You Will Do

Lead an experienced Finance Operations team, own the timely and accurate execution of monthly and annual close processes, oversee statutory and Group accounting, ensure accounting quality across multiple legal entities, and strengthen financial controls and reconciliations.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This is an opportunity to lead and strengthen the accounting and treasury backbone of a growing, international fintech, with a focused mandate to build reliable and scalable Finance Operations that support Taxfix’s next stage of growth.

Requirements

• Significant hands-on experience in accounting or controllership, including ownership of month-end and year-end close processes.
• Strong knowledge of HGB and practical experience with statutory financial statements.
• Solid understanding of IFRS, consolidation, and multi-entity Group reporting.
• Strong operational finance experience across accounting, close, reporting, and treasury, including cash management, liquidity planning, and banking processes.
• Experience leading accounting professionals or a small-to-mid-sized Finance Operations team.
• Experience working in an international, multi-entity organisation.
• A strong understanding of accounting processes, internal controls, reconciliations, and audit requirements.
• Demonstrated experience making finance operations more reliable, structured, documented, or scalable.
• Experience with ERP systems; NetSuite experience would be a plus.
• A pragmatic approach to technology and automation.
• Confident communication with senior stakeholders, auditors, banks, advisors, and cross-functional partners.
• A structured and calm leadership style, particularly during close, audits, and periods of organisational change.
• Strong ownership, sound judgement, and the ability to prioritise in a fast-moving environment.
• Fluent in German and English.

Benefits

• Holistic well-being with free mental health coaching sessions.
• A monthly allowance to spend on an extensive range of services.
• Employee stock options for all employees.
• 30 annual vacation days and flexible working hours.
• A generous learning budget to support personal and professional development.
• Work from abroad for up to six weeks every year.
• Free tax declaration filing through the Taxfix app.
• Free dog-friendly office environment.