Accounting Manager

At eyeo, we transform the internet into a trusted, sustainable and accessible place where users regain control over their experience, content creators and publishers are rewarded for their content, and advertisers and consumers can connect on mutually agreed terms.

eyeo's market-leading ad-filtering technology powers products like Adblock Plus and AdBlock as well as technical integrations for popular browsers. Our solutions empower users to control their online experience and privacy, while providing monetization for content creators, publishers and advertisers.

In combining our partnerships and our subsidiary products, our technology reaches 350 million monthly active users worldwide.

eyeo is a global employer of over 300 people working remotely in more than 30 countries (predominantly North America and Europe) with our HQ in Berlin and small offices in Cologne, Toronto and NYC (planned soon)., eyeo has colleagues based all over the world. We love our diversity and take great pride in our company culture. We practice an independent, remote workstyle with work distributed in cross-functional matrix teams that span predominantly EST and CET time zones. If working remotely isn't for you, we also have a large office in Berlin and soon in NYC that you can choose to work from. We meet twice a year as a team and host once a year an all-company retreat, our Summer Week. By enabling remote work and in-person sessions, we have built a culture that provides a unique dynamic of flexibility and belonging.

Ihre Aufgaben

At eyeo, you will have the opportunity to support and lead the accounting team, encompassing transactional accounting, external financial reporting, accounting and financial governance policy, and technical accounting. You will play a critical role in managing German accounting, fundamental business process flows and establishing and maintaining a comprehensive environment of controls to mitigate risk and ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles or international financial reporting rules. You will collaborate with consolidation and tax functions in book closes, quarterly financial package preparation and financial audits. This role provides the opportunity for partnerships with various internal and external teams.

Your day-to-day activities:

• Manage the day-to-day relationships with outsourced or in-house accounting professionals and proactively identify new opportunities to streamline accounting processes and strengthen financial controls

• Ensure financial data is recorded in accordance with company policies and related GAAP

• Oversee the month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial close cycles, including the global consolidation and reporting of all accounting-related results necessary for external and management reporting

• Build deep functional and technical excellence within the team in accounting and control competencies

• Build and document process flows while pursuing process improvement opportunities in the fundamentals of order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, order-to-record and hire-to-retire end-to-end process flows

• Provide support to the Corporate Controller with audits, special inquiries, projects and ad-hoc analysis; for German entities play a lead role in managing financial audits

• Protect assets by establishing, monitoring and enforcing internal controls

• Manage banking transactions and nurture relationships with banking partners

• Lead compliance with local statutory reporting requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; filing financial reports; and advising management on needed actions

• Collaborate with Tax, Financial Planning and Analysis, Investor Relations, and other teams; ensure that accurate accounting data be provided in a timely manner

• Provide insightful business requirements to the ERP project team; be actively involved in system implementation and improvement

• Ad hoc projects as needed

Ihr Profil

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance or foreign degree equivalent

• CPA or equivalent, Bilanzbuchhalter or Internationaler Bilanzbuchhalter

• At least 8 years' experience in accounting and financial reporting

• At least 3 years' experience in a leadership position

• Knowledge of and experience with German GAAP and IFRS

• Business fluency in German and English

• Strong collaboration and teamwork skills

• Strong analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail,

• US GAAP and SEC experience

• Hands-on experience with NetSuite or Oracle

• Experience in working with global teams in a technology company