Senior Accountant/Buchhalter (m/f/d)

Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks and selling directly to consumers through its Galatea app. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Recently raising a Series C and backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into CandyJarTV is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.

What You’ll Do: :
• Support day to day German accounting operations, ensuring accurate and timely bookkeeping

• Partner with external accounting providers and review local accounting deliverables

• Prepare and post journal entries (revenue, accruals, prepaids, payroll, invoices, intercompany, etc.)

• Support and improve month-end close and reconciliations (bank, AP/AR, etc.)

• Help manage and ensure compliance with:

• German payroll

• Tax/compliance

• Statutory reporting requirements

• Ensure clean documentation and internal controls in a fast-moving startup environment

• Support German GAAP year end reporting and liaise with auditors/advisors as needed

• Act as primary point of contact for limited office operations

What You’ll Bring: :
• 5+ years experience in accounting (startup/scale up experience strongly preferred)

• Background as Senior Accountant / Buchhalter

• Strong understanding of German GAAP, German charts of accounts (SKR 03 or SKR 04), and debits & credits

• Utilize AI tools to streamline finance tasks, including DATEV and Excel

• Experience working with accounting software/ERP (posting journals, reconciliations, and close processes) and hands on accounting execution

• DATEV systems experience required; Netsuite, Everest and/or Quickbooks experience a plus

• Systems implementations experience a plus

• Familiarity with German payroll/tax/compliance topics (hands on or partner management) (VAT, OSS, corporate & trade tax, withholding tax, etc.)

• Comfortable with ambiguity and building processes from scratch

• Fluency in German (C1) and solid English skills (B2 - C1) (reading and writing)

• Nice to Have: Experience as Steuerfachangestellter/in and/or Big 4 experience

At Inkitt, we strive to build a company culture and provide employment opportunities based on diversity and inclusion. We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed, as should our team members. As a growing team from 20+ countries, we welcome everyone to apply.

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