SoundCloud empowers artists, tastemakers and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is a creator-first platform helping artists build and grow their careers by providing them with the most advanced tools, services, and resources. With over 4x the music catalog of every other major streaming platform, spanning 40+ million artists across 190+ countries, SoundCloud is where emerging artists find their sound, hidden gems are discovered, and music culture is shaped in real time.
SoundCloud is looking for a motivated Staff Accountant (Part-Time) to join our Finance Team in Berlin and help us keep our financial operations running smoothly. In this role, you will support our core accounting processes, manage internal workflows, and gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, international tech environment. This is a part-time role (20h/week) with flexible working hours.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist with travel expense reimbursement and credit card clearing processes in Navan.
- Act as the main internal point of contact for team members regarding expense policy guidelines and missing receipt submission tracking.
- Assist with day-to-day Accounts Payable tasks and vendor management in Oracle and RAMP.
- Support the team with the month-end closing activities (Monatsabschluss) under IFRS.
- Reconcile bank accounts to ensure financial accuracy.
- Work closely with our internal Tax Team on various compliance tasks and cross-functional reporting.
- Assist in cleaning, analyzing, and organizing financial master data within our accounting systems (Oracle, Ramp, Navan)
Experience and Background:
- Practical experience in Finance, Accounting, or a similar data-heavy administrative role (e.g., through prior internships, or working student positions).
- Excellent Excel skills (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, and advanced data manipulation are second nature to you).
- First-hand experience or exposure to Power BI and/or BigQuery. A basic understanding of SQL or exposure to cloud-based ERP systems (Oracle) is a major plus. You enjoy working with large datasets.
- Fluent in English (our core company language). Good conversational German is a strong asset for dealing with local tax topics, regulatory interfaces, and German invoices.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to explain internal financial guidelines clearly, politely, and firmly to non-finance colleagues.
- A structured, highly reliable, and detail-oriented way of working with absolute trustworthiness regarding sensitive financial data.
About us:
- We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
- We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
- We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard.
- We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities
Benefits:
- Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
- Generous professional development allowance
- Flexible vacation and public holiday policy
- Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud
SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.
At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.
