Principal Accountant (m/f/d)
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eyeo has a complex, multi-entity legal structure spanning Germany and several other jurisdictions, built up through years of organic growth and acquisition. Over the past 18 months, our European Accounting team rebuilt the function from the ground up — a close process and controls where there used to be none. The close now runs in five days and the foundation is solid, though a significant multi-year external audit backlog still needs to be cleared. You have the technical depth and independent judgment to bring real value to a function like this, partnering with our Senior European Accounting Manager across European Accounting and Group Accounting so the team has real depth rather than a single point of failure:
- Have you ever picked up a multi-year, multi-jurisdiction audit backlog and turned it into a closed chapter? Join us and be the leading force, together with our Senior Accounting Manager, in clearing a significant external audit backlog dating back to 2022 — real remediation work, not steady-state PBC support, and a challenge that needs someone who can independently work through complex, aged technical questions.
- You deliver across the full audit and technical accounting domain. Whether it’s owning significant portions of the external audit process end-to-end — PBC preparation, auditor liaison, and resolution of technical accounting queries — or preparing technical accounting analyses under HGB and IFRS for audit and internal use, you feel comfortable solving the puzzle. And if you don’t know how, you are happy to dive right in and learn!
- You design and build consolidation capability that lasts. Your mind naturally maps out how entity hierarchies, intercompany elimination rules, chart-of-accounts and segment mappings, and currency translation setup connect, and you find satisfaction in double-teaming with our Group Senior Accountant to transition our consolidations from LucaNet to NetSuite — taking a co-leading role in standing up NetSuite consolidation from the ground up as a second consolidation capability.
- You review the full set of consolidated financial statements prepared monthly by our Group Senior Accountant under German GAAP (HGB) and IFRS, maintaining clear preparer/reviewer segregation of duties.
- Your curiosity is boundless, and you genuinely love untangling complex problems. You know how to leverage balance sheet reconciliation and variance analysis to understand our financial position, working with the rest of the accounting team to bring reconciliation up to date and maintain the rigor of the monthly close. You’ll produce our quarterly balance sheet briefing binder, covering variance analysis, balance sheet KPIs, and operational insights.
- Be at the forefront of finance automation. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to our ongoing automation program — NetClose, NetCash, NetAsset, dunning automation, and AI-enabled flows — that increases output per person across Finance.
- You’re not content with just closing the books, you’re driven to see it make a tangible difference. You’re passionate about understanding the “why” behind our processes and controls — helping design, implement and improve end-to-end processes across R2R, H2R, P2P and O2C — and you gather input from affected stakeholders before rolling out changes, rather than mandating first and adjusting later.
- You bring 8+ years of progressive corporate accounting experience, including multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation (German or broader European accounting exposure strongly preferred), solid technical grounding in German GAAP (HGB) and IFRS group reporting, and a certification equivalent to the CPA in the U.S. Hands-on, in-depth LucaNet or NetSuite consolidation experience is preferred.
You bring others on the journey with you:
- You are a master of written communication — maintaining clear documentation and audit trails for ongoing compliance matters, and acting as a respons