Senior Accountant (m/f/d)

Your mission

Do you enjoy being a detail-oriented analytical thinker and problem solver? Are you passionate about improving financial processes in a young and fast-growing company and building strategies to do so? Are you a responsible individual with experience in creating timely reports and maintaining accounting records? Then come join one of the hottest Fintechs in Europe.

Banxware GmbH, based in Berlin, is offering revenue-based loans to small and medium-sized companies that use sales- or payments platforms to run their business. Our financing solution embeds fully into those platforms. We process the loan applications and manage the loans end-to-end. For platform customers, our instant loan offers became a convenient tool to grow their business.
After having raised a total of 14m EUR in less than 12 months, we are currently on the lookout for a Senior Accountant (f/m/d) to join our finance team.
You’ll have the opportunity to be a part of the finance and HR teams, as well as work in cross-functional teams in a fast-paced and ever-changing start-up environment.

What you will do:

• You work on the preparation of our monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements according to the German Commercial Code (HGB) in DATEV
• You develop the booking logic for accounts payable and accounts receivable and assist in the clarification of balance sheet issues
• You work on the calculation and bookings of accruals and deferrals, assist in the preparation of the fixed asset registry and intercompany reconciliation
• You ensure that cost centres are correctly mapped in DATEV and that reconciliation to management reporting is possible
• Together with our tax advisor, you take responsibility for submitting tax filings, including VAT and sales taxes, recapitulative statements and tax returns
• You communicate with external stakeholders such as banks, auditors and tax consultants
• You identify optimisation potentials and implement changes consistently to improve the productivity of the processes
• You assist in the preparation of internal reporting and ad-hoc analyses, as well as the professional development of the team
• You collaborate together with our Financial Planning Analyst on building updating models, preparing revenue projections, and forecasting expenditure

Your profile

• You are fluent in German and English
• Good to very good DATEV skills
• You have an education and professional experience in finance eg. as an Accountant (Bilanzbuchhalter, Finanzbuchhalter), ACCA, CMA, CFA or other relevant accounting certificates
• At least 3 years of experience in accounting, especially in the area of annual financial statements according to the German Commercial Code (HGB)
• Experience with company and tax audits as well as the management of company audits
• IT affinity, confident handling of MS Office applications, especially MS Excel

Our offer

• A competitive salary and participation in our share options programme (VSOP).
• Possibility to work remote (within Germany), or from our cosy office in Berlin-Mitte
• Potential to grow into a leading role as we continue to extend our team quickly.
• The tools you need to do your job: your choice of laptop, operating system, productivity software and desk set-up.
• By joining us as an early employee, you will have unrivalled autonomy and ownership at Banxware.
• At Banxware, everyone is accepted, included and celebrated, irrespective of their sexual orientation, culture, gender, religion, physical ability or the absence of any of these.
• Our team stands out: here, you will get to work with a team of seasoned industry experts that still strive to learn every day.

Banxware is an early-stage FinTech startup led by a team of seasoned FinTech experts. We closed in 12 months a EUR 14m seed funding round and we are looking to grow our team.

Banxware connects platforms and their merchants with traditional banks. Our white-label Lending-as-a-Service software solution can be integrated into any digital platform to offer instant financing to platform merchants. The financing application process takes only a few minutes and platform merchants can complete it within their known day2day environment: the platform or marketplace.

In addition, we have big plans for Banxware’s future: we want to become the European standard for Lending as a Service.