Senior Accountant

Stena Center for Financial Technology

Senior Accountant overseeing core accounting processes in a fintech company. Collaborating with teams to ensure financial accuracy and compliance while driving operational innovation.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeBerlin • 🇩🇪 GermanySeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own month-end & year-end close: Drive a reliable, on-time month-end and year-end close across multiple entities, in partnership with our Senior Accounting Manager
Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations to ensure the integrity of our books
Be a day-to-day counterpart for our external auditors and tax advisors throughout the close and year-end audit cycles
Run core accounting operations: Own cash accounting and cash steering, ensuring full visibility and control over liquidity across entities and currencies
Oversee the P2P (procure-to-pay) process end to end — including expense management and vendor payments — with operational support from our working student
Take responsibility for revenue accounting under IFRS / US GAAP, ensuring accurate and compliant recognition
Support our multi-entity setup: Coordinate accounting across our German, UK, Romanian and future entities, including the relationship with our outsourced UK and Romanian accounting partner
Act as a reliable back-up across the full accounting scope, stepping in seamlessly to keep operations running
Over time, take the lead in bringing accounting in-house for the UK and future entities as we scale
Drive innovation & strategic projects: Get involved in the kind of strategic finance projects that come with scaling a high-growth company, for example, ERP implementation, US GAAP / IFRS conversions, or new entity setups
Champion the use of AI and modern tooling in finance, identifying where agents, automation, and smarter workflows can replace manual effort and free the team to focus on higher-value topics
Drive continuous process improvements to make our close faster, our books cleaner, and our team more scalable

Requirements

What you’ll need

~5 years of professional accounting experience, ideally in a fast-growing or international environment
Strong, hands-on knowledge of US GAAP and/or IFRS
Solid command of core accounting processes (close, cash, P2P, revenue, fixed assets)
Experience working across multiple entities or jurisdictions
High attention to detail and a structured, hands-on, self-driven working style
Eagerness to use AI and modern tooling to challenge how finance gets done
Fluency in English
Knowledge of German GAAP (HGB) and German tax regulations (Nice to have)
Prior experience in B2B SaaS or another fast-paced, scaling environment (Nice to have)
Working proficiency in German (Nice to have)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Impact: Shape and scale Taktile's accounting function as we grow across new markets and entities
Ownership: Take real responsibility for core finance processes, and the freedom to improve them
Innovation: Sit at the pulse of finance innovation, with access to modern tooling, AI agents, and a team eager to push the boundaries of how finance gets done
Growth: Develop in a fast-paced, international environment alongside experienced operators
Collaboration: Work closely with our finance team and cross-functional partners across the business
Flexibility: Hybrid work policy (3 days onsite) based out of our Berlin office
Development: Access to dedicated learning and development resources to grow your craft

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Hard Skills & Tools

month-end closeyear-end closejournal entriesaccrualsreconciliationscash accountingP2P processrevenue accountingUS GAAPIFRS

Soft Skills

attention to detailstructured working styleself-driveneagerness to innovatereliablecollaborativeadaptabilityproblem-solvingleadershipcommunication