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Skalar

Automated tax and compliance for SMEs

Senior Accountant - AI-native Steuerkanzlei

Financial AccountingPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeMunich, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Six to ten years of accounting experience, including at least three years of responsibility for accounting at a startup or scale-up, ideally at more than one company.
  • Confidence with monthly and quarterly closes and preparation of annual financial statements under HGB.
  • Strong tax knowledge, especially in VAT including international matters, with foundational knowledge of income taxes in the context of financial statements and an understanding of payroll entries.
  • Experience redesigning accounting processes, including system changes, bank, payment, or ERP interfaces to DATEV, or automating manual steps; familiarity with DATEV and other accounting tools and knowledge of where data breaks.
  • Daily use of AI tools such as Claude, experience automating accounting processes, and ability to formulate requirements for engineers to build.
  • Ability to explain accounting clearly to non-accountants.
  • Education or study focused on accounting or taxation.
  • Native-level German and good English.
  • Availability to work in the Munich office at least three days per week.

Responsibilities

  • Own the quality and close-readiness of a client portfolio covering financial accounting, HGB financial statements, and VAT filings; make professional decisions on exceptional cases after agents perform routine bookkeeping.
  • Prepare monthly and annual financial statements under HGB, including accruals, provisions, fixed assets, and reconciliations; review and decide on items and bring statements to close-readiness for tax advisors.
  • Validate VAT advance returns and recapitulative statements; decide on special cases such as reverse charge, OSS, and third-country transactions, and document them as rules.
  • Validate automated bookkeeping and filings; define review rules, measure error rates, and continuously improve rules and prompts.
  • Identify where time is being lost and build automation with engineers.
  • Represent the leads for annual closing and financial accounting, including approvals.
  • Own client relationships for bookkeeping and closing topics, supported by AI.
  • Identify tax questions early and pass them to tax advisors with the facts, figures, and accounting assessment prepared.

Desired Qualifications

  • A professional examination or credential such as tax advisor, IHK certified accountant, or tax specialist.
  • Experience in a tax advisory firm or auditing, IFRS, or group accounting.

About the Company

Skalar

Automated tax and compliance for SMEs

Skalar is a German-based firm delivering automated tax advisory and compliance services for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It combines deep tax expertise with technology to automate a large portion of tax and audit work, enabling an efficient, scalable, and client-centric service delivered remotely. The core product analyzes and optimizes tax workflows using automation tools, aiming to build a fully autonomous tax and audit service for clients. Differentiators include being an early mover in Europe’s “tax autopilot” space, leveraging applied AI via venture backing from futurepresent, and embedding software into services to create outcome-oriented solutions. The company’s goal is to provide a remote, automated tax platform that handles tax advisory, compliance, and automated accounting tasks, allowing SMEs to focus on their core business.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
Seed
Total funding
$13.2M
Headquarters
Munich, Germany
Founded
2025

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