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Senior Accountant mit Schwerpunkt Bilanzbuchhaltung (m/f/d)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Completed business apprenticeship with a focus on accounting
  • Several years of experience in financial accounting
  • Solid understanding of the German Commercial Code (HGB)
  • Fluent in German and English

Responsibilities

  • Manage financial and general ledger accounting for the Group
  • Prepare monthly and annual financial statements in accordance with HGB
  • Process payroll for multiple countries and handle day-to-day payment transactions
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for auditors and tax advisors

About the company

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Checkmk

Computer Software / SaaS

We are a dynamic and high growth software firm, yet still with a familiar atmosphere. With our products we improve the lives of thousands of administrators and DevOps teams and help to ensure that IT, the modern world‘s backbone, runs reliably and with high performance. Our mission is to develop the best tools to support these specialists to ensure they can fulfill their important tasks, independently of the complexity, size, and distributed nature of IT. It is our firm believe that no software firm can solve this complexity from the ‚outside‘. It is rather the combination of a large community of specialists possessing deep know-how of the specific needs of their domain, coupled with our creativity to find the smartest solution to address these needs, that ultimately enables the development of the most effective tools for our customers. The close collaboration with our customer community and the knowledge that we can help this community with our open source and commercial products is our driver of change. Our offices are centrally located in München-Haidhausen, the 'French quarter' - an area well known for its many small alleys, squares, historical buildings, cultural offers and numerous cafes, bars and restaurants

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Your mission

  • You will independently manage the financial and general ledger accounting for our Group- including general ledger accounts, accounts payable, and accounts receivable - in close coordination with the team
  • You will prepare monthly and annual financial statements in accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB) and compile them independently—including consolidation entries for the entire corporate group
  • You will process payroll for multiple countries, handle provisions, accruals, fixed asset accounting, and day-to-day payment transactions
  • You will be responsible for the monthly advance sales tax return as well as the quarterly summary report
  • You will serve as the primary point of contact for auditors and tax advisors—and oversee tax audits as well as the preparation of tax returns
  • You will work closely with the Controlling team on monthly investor reporting and contribute to process and system optimizations
  • You will maintain and further develop our Accounting Manual and serve as a technical point of contact for the Junior Accountant


Your profile

  • You have completed a business apprenticeship with a focus on accounting—ideally as a tax clerk—and have received further training to become a financial accountant (m/f/d). In addition, you have several years of experience in accounting
  • You have several years of practical experience in financial accounting—you have independently performed journal entries, prepared individual financial statements, and gained initial exposure to consolidated financial statements
  • You have a solid understanding of the German Commercial Code (HGB) and are familiar with sales tax law - knowledge of IFRS is a welcome plus
  • You are proficient in using DATEV and MS Office; experience with a CPM/FP&A tool such as Lucanet, Tagetik, or Anaplan is a plus
  • You work independently and in a structured manner, have high standards for quality, and enjoy actively helping to shape a modern finance department
  • You are fluent in German and English—both written and spoken


Why us?

  • The chance to make a decisive impact and shape the future of a dynamic, fast growing tech company while growing with your tasks and responsibilities
  • Flexible and family-friendly working conditions in a stable environment
  • With the wide range of sports and wellness offers from Wellpass, you can choose from over 9,000 sports and wellness offers
  • An agile team that embodies autonomy and fast decision making within flat hierarchies
  • A unique corporate culture where we emphasize equality, diversity and inclusion
  • A wide range of education and training opportunities
  • Fully remote work or high flexibility between mobile work and an office in one of the most beautiful, central district of Munich
  • An attractive salary
  • Regular onsite events of all sorts (Company Outings, Team events, Checkmk Conference, Conference After Party and more) in a familiar atmosphere

    Interested? Then contact us now!
    You can get insights about working@checkmk at: www.kununu.com/de/checkmk

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