Senior Accountant/Buchhalter

Salary Range: 45000 to 65000 (Currency: EUR) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

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 7 days and selling directly to consumers through its Inkitt Galatea app. Bestsellers are then translated onto the screen through Inkitt CandyJar, the #1 US-based microdrama platform with billions of episodes streamed to date. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into Ironblood, the first AI Native streaming platform for action and adventure, 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