Finance Manager

You'll be building the accounting function for a bootstrapped business that's scaled fast and stayed profitable the whole way, almost from scratch. You'll own it end to end: bring bookkeeping and VAT compliance in-house and into DATEV, then automate it down to the minimum it needs to be.

What you'll do

• Automate the recurring bookkeeping work down to a fraction of today's hours: integrate spend management and other tools with DATEV, build the rules and API-based connectors that do the work you used to do by hand.
• Migrate bookkeeping and VAT compliance off external providers into a DATEV environment you design, ending up with clean chart-of-accounts, documentation, and an audit trail you'd defend to any auditor.
• Own intercompany reconciliation and consolidation across entities, building the foundation the group needs for IFRS as it scales past German GAAP alone.
• Drive tool setup and integration: connect Payhawk and other feeder systems with DATEV, validate tax and account mappings, design standardized procure-to-pay and expense workflows with clear audit trails.
• Own reporting and advisor coordination by delivering clear, timely financial data within agreed timelines, proactively flag risks and decisions to keep closings, filings, and audits on track.

What you'll need

• Real in-house accounting experience: AR/AP, bank reconciliations, accruals and deferrals, monthly closing, ideally in DATEV Rechnungswesen or a comparable system.
• A demonstrated case of taking a process from manual and external to in-house, automated, and yours: migration, chart-of-accounts and VAT code design, SOPs, and a measurable improvement in close speed or data quality.
• An automation-driven instinct: you look at a manual process and start asking how to remove yourself from it, rather than waiting to be asked.
• Strong intercompany and multi-entity experience: issuing/booking intercompany invoices, performing monthly reconciliations, and producing audit-ready schedules that support consolidation and group reporting.
• German GAAP fluency, with no hesitation about IFRS becoming relevant as we scale.
• Comfort working independently with periodic review, not step-by-step direction.

What they offer

• Equity in Almedia for all Berlin-based employees.
• Profitable startup with clear growth path.
• Central Berlin office fully stocked for collaboration.
• Transport subsidy, breakfasts and lunches, language learning, Urban Sports Club.