Senior Accountant (m/w/d)

Your Mission

Friendsurance is looking for a motivated Senior Accountant (m/f/d), who can join our Finance Team as soon as possible - either as a permanent employee or temporarily as a freelancer - and take responsibility for scaling our financial processes.

Your mission is to keep our finances on track with analytical precision and to secure our growth through proactive optimizations. You bring a modern drive to accounting, think digitally, and ensure that we always have a full overview of our key metrics. In short: you make our accounting smarter and more scalable.

Your Tasks & Responsibilities

• End-to-End Accounting: Independent management of accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, and fixed asset accounting, including the precise reconciliation of all accounts.

• Closing Excellence: Preparation of monthly and annual financial statements in accordance with HGB (German GAAP) and IFRS, as well as the submission of consolidated VAT returns.

• Automation & Digitization: Identification and implementation of tools to automate accounts payable and receivable processes, as well as optimizing interfaces between operational systems and DATEV.

• Reporting & Controlling: Setup and maintenance of cost center and cost unit accounting, and the introduction and monitoring of KPIs for management reporting.

• Process Optimization: Continuous development of financial closing processes with the goal of an efficient fast-close.

• Project Support: Acting as an interface to Sales and Product to assess and proactively help shape the financial impact of new features and partnerships.

Qualifications And Requirements

• Qualification: A background in accounting or as a Tax Assistant (Steuerfachangestellte/r), plus further certification as a Certified Management Accountant (Bilanzbuchhalter/in) or a comparable degree..

• Experience: At least 5 years of relevant professional experience, ideally as the (sole) person responsible for accounting in a growing medium-sized company or startup.

• Expertise: Solid knowledge of consolidation and financial reporting according to HGB and IFRS is mandatory.

• DATEV-Expert: Proficient in using DATEV (including "Unternehmen Online") and experience with digital invoice workflows (e.g., Moss, Candis).

• Tools: Strong MS Office skills, particularly in creating Excel reporting and analysis.

• Mindset: Analytical sharpness paired with a hands-on mentality and a true entrepreneurial spirit.

• Language skills: German at C1 level and professional English for our international team.

We As A Team

At Friendsurance, we believe that today's social structures disproportionately disadvantage people from marginalized populations - including people of color, people with disabilities, working-class people, single parents, women, and members of LGBTQIA+ communities. We also believe that these groups need to be actively included in the workforce. Therefore, we strongly encourage people with these identities or members of other marginalized communities to apply. We do not require a photo or information about your gender/sex or marital status for our application process.

Our Offer

• Attractive salary and vacation policy
• Flexible working hours and mobile- work
• A big and lovely designed office in Berlin-Kreuzberg with plenty of rooms for creativity and the typical startup amenities
• A generous yearly personal development budget
• Legendary team events and parties
• Urban Sports Membership subsidy
• Language learning support for German and English
• A unique and international team
• And much more!

Sounds interesting? We are very much looking forward to your application ❤️

AI note: This job description was written by our team, with help from AI for tone and clarity. Final edits are human.

• Qualification: A background in accounting or as a Tax Assistant (Steuerfachangestellte/r), plus further certification as a Certified Management Accountant (Bilanzbuchhalter/in) or a comparable degree..

• Experience: At least 5 years of relevant professional experience, ideally as the (sole) person responsible for accounting in a growing medium-sized company or startup.

• Expertise: Solid knowledge of consolidation and financial reporting according to HGB and IFRS is mandatory.

• DATEV-Expert: Proficient in using DATEV (including "Unternehmen Online") and experience with digital invoice workflows (e.g., Moss, Candis).

• Tools: Strong MS Office skills, particularly in creating Excel reporting and analysis.

• Mindset: Analytical sharpness paired with a hands-on mentality and a true entrepreneurial spirit.

• Language skills: German at C1 level and professional English for our international team.

Discovered directly from the employer’s published Personio open-positions XML feed. All public jobDescriptions sections were normalized into complete candidate-facing content.