财务经理 in München

This is a core finance role in a German IT company, fully responsible for full-set financial accounting & reporting, German tax declaration, and financial compliance management. The role focuses on building standardized financial processes, ensuring legal compliance and efficient operation of the financial system. Adapt to the asset-light, subscription-based revenue and cross-department expense accounting characteristics of the IT industry, and independently lead daily financial operations, annual audits, tax inspections and other special financial work.

What you’ll do:

• Manage full-set company accounting in accordance with German HGB accounting standards and financial regulations, handle accounting daily operations, review and approve vouchers, control work result from accountants, deal with other departments (such as logistics, HR, sales), provide opinions on company decisions (such as expense allocation, revenue recognition), ensure monthly and annual closing on time. Provide authentic, accurate and timely financial data.
• Standardize and optimize accounting process and workflows for each bookkeeping area, e.g., banking, receivables, and payables, IT revenue (such as SaaS) and expenses. Standardize and provide reconciliations between HGB and IFRS for group reporting purpose.
• Provide accurate and timely financial statements, breakdowns and analysis for group reporting based on group requirement. Ensure the quality of financial data for management decision and business review. Drive for continuous accounting and business improvement.
• Establish a standardized filing system (sort, file and keep financial vouchers, account books, bank statements, invoices and other financial documents), and fulfil e-invoicing compliance requirement.
• Take full charge of local German tax affairs, including monthly, quarterly and annual declaration, calculation and payment of VAT, corporate income tax, stamp duty and other taxes, ensuring no misdeclaration, omission or overdue declaration.
• Cooperate with local tax authorities and tax consultants, respond to tax inspections and special tax audits, organize and submit tax documents, and properly handle tax abnormalities.
• Manage company invoice issuance and verification, tax voucher review and tax-related accounting adjustments to ensure consistency between tax accounting and declaration data.

Financial Compliance & Risk Control

• Strictly comply with German financial, tax, industrial and commercial laws, regulations and industry supervision requirements, establish and improve the company's financial compliance system, and optimize the whole-process systems of financial approval, reimbursement, payment and accounting.
• Conduct daily financial compliance review, strictly control capital, accounting and tax risks, investigate loopholes in financial processes, and formulate and implement rectification plans.
• Cooperate with Big Four accounting firms in annual audits, internal control audits and special inspections, coordinate audit data collection, account reconciliation, manuscript Q&A and discrepancy adjustment, communicate with Big Four audit teams throughout the process, ensure efficient and compliant audit progress and results, complete audit rectification closed-loop management, and guarantee smooth audit completion.

What we’re looking for:

• Professional Experience: 8+ years of full-time financial work experience, including at least 3 years of in-house financial supervisor/manager experience in enterprises, experience in financial operation of German enterprises. Experience in auditing or providing documents to auditors is preferred.
• Professional Skills: Proficient in German HGB accounting standards, familiar with IFRS, local German fiscal and tax laws and regulations, full-set accounting, multi-tax declaration, financial compliance risk control and audit docking; Familiar with SaaS industry financial accounting logic, revenue recognition rules and industry fiscal and tax characteristics.
• Technical Skills: Skilled in financial software, ERP systems and Office tools, able to independently complete financial statement preparation, data analysis and ledger establishment; Basic English reading, writing and communication skills for overseas fiscal, tax and audit docking.
• Language Proficiency: German and English as working language; (better have:) Fluent in Chinese mandarin.
• Mindset and working style: Problem solving and result oriented, hands-on, organized, instructive and professional

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