Accounting Product Specialist

Are you looking to have an impact on the daily life of millions of entrepreneurs in France and Europe?

Do you thrive in a trustful, fast-paced environment?

Then Pennylane might be the right place for you — and you, might be the perfect fit for this role 🙂

Our vision

We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of European SMEs.

We help business owners get rid of the time consuming hassle of handling accounting and finance, while giving them access to key information that they can use to make better decisions.

Meanwhile, we’re helping accountants. By using Pennylane, rather than doing manual and repetitive tasks, they can spend more time advising and guiding their clients.

About us

Pennylane is one of the fastest growing Fintechs in France (and we're accelerating in Germany 🇩🇪)

In 6 years of existence, we’ve managed to :

💻 Make ourselves known as a groundbreaking accounting and financial software for small businesses and their accountants

💰 Raise a total of €400 millions, including from Sequoia, the famous fund from the Silicon Valley who invested early in companies like Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, Paypal and much more...

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Grow from 7 cofounders to 1200+ happy Pennylaners : we’re now recognized as one of the greatest places to work in France (and also remotely), with a 4.6/5 rating on Glassdoor.

🌍 Build an international environment with more than 25 nationalities, with a strong remote-friendly culture, where 30% of the employees are already working from all parts of Europe

🤝 Earn the trust of thousands of customers and accounting firms and obtain outstanding ratings

🚀 Already more than 1 300,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and over 6,500 accounting firms use Pennylane in France!

About the accounting product specialist position

You will act as the bridge between accounting expertise and product development, ensuring the technical excellence and regulatory compliance of our accounting production tool.

What success looks like in this role

Top 3 responsibilities

1. Advise the Product team by answering questions and sharing knowledge to ensure that accounting features are built correctly.

2. Test the product and report issues and feedback to the Product team.

3. Train other people on the product, especially on accounting topics. This will include external audiences, such as accounting firms we will work with, as well as internal audiences, such as new joiners in Product, Sales and Support. You will create the appropriate training materials and sessions.

Expected impact during the first six months

• Actively contribute to the product launch, ensuring that key accounting features are compliant and efficient.

• Document key knowledge about French and German accounting, as well as how the German product works.

• Train the first accounting firms using Pennylane Germany.

• Help recruit and train key team members, particularly in Partner Success and Customer Success.

Responsibilities

Business expertise

• Support Product teams in designing and validating accounting and tax features through workshops, prototype reviews and similar activities.

• Help translate accounting and tax requirements into clear and understandable product specifications.

• Document product decisions in light of accounting and tax regulations.

• Challenge proposed solutions from an accounting and tax perspective, and arbitrate between different types of user feedback when necessary.

Quality assurance

• Contribute to defining accounting-related test scenarios.

• Validate the accuracy and compliance of calculations, journal entries, financial statements and tax filings.

• Confirm the expected accounting outcome of a feature.

Knowledge management and training

• Create and maintain accounting and tax-related technical documentation.

• Train internal teams on key accounting concepts.

• Facilitate knowledge-sharing sessions.

Profile :

• Experience: At least 5 years of experience in an accounting firm or practice (you're use to work with clients and tax advisors), including experience preparing companies’ year-end closings.

• Experience: Strong understanding of the full bookkeeping cycle. Expertise in book closing is also required.

• Preferred background: Experience in an accounting firm or practice

• Nice to have: A high-level understanding of accounting, including differences between accounting firms, tools such as Datev (recommended), and regional specificities.

• Fluent in German and English

• Good level of curiosity and strong ability to make accounting complex topics accessible for various stakeholders

What do we do to make your work life easier :

🏢 This job is remote from any location in Germany. If you're based in Berlin, we've a few offices there (Rosenthaler Strasse 43–45).

💵 An attractive package (detailed during the screening stage)

📈 You'll get company shares to enjoy a piece of the success story you're building with us

🌴 30 days of paid leave per year.

🏡 You’ll have a budget to turn your home into a more comfortable workspace, as well as a monthly allowance to work from a coworking space whenever you feel like it

⛹️Through our partner Gymlib, you’ll have access to 8000 fitness spaces in Europe and more than 300 activities related to wellness

🇬🇧 You’ll have access to Busuu to perfect your english or your french

💻 You’ll get the latest Apple equipment

🎉 Regular company events: We value spending time together through events such as our Tech Days, held every three months, our annual company offsite, and team gatherings approximately once a month at our Berlin office (Rosenthaler Strasse 43–45).

🤝 Hiring Process:

• Intro Call: First exchange with Thomas (Recruiter) - 30 min video call

• Manager Interview: Interview with Cécile Farriaux (Senior Product Manager) – 45min video call

• Live Business Case : Interview with Niklas Weindenkopf (Customer Success Manager - Accounting Firms) and Elise Naves (Senior Product Manager) - 1 Hour

• Final Round: Interview with two senior stakeholders

   

We make sure we move fast ; you can expect the recruitment process with us to last between 15 and 25 days in total.

We have tried to give you as much details as we could about the purpose, missions and environment of this role; it is now up to you to tell us if you think this is a position in which you could a) have fun and b) bring value to our company.

If you’re hesitating, we encourage you to apply anyway: worst case scenario, you might lose a few minutes, and in the best case, it will be the start of a meaningful and long-lasting collaboration.

We also want to emphasise that we fully embrace diversity and that we’re doing our best to create a safe and inclusive environment. We are committed to providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of gender, sexual orientation, origin, disabilities, or any other traits that make you who you are. If anything, diversity makes us a more fun place to work at.

To end with a humble illustration of our commitment, we’ve recently signed the Pacte Parité to set concrete goals in building a better and more inclusive workplace in the years to come.

Encouraging diversity in all its forms, Pennylane strives to offer an inclusive, caring and fulfilling work environment in our offices and remotely. We provide equal opportunities and consideration regardless of background, origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation or handicap.

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Pennylane traite vos données pour gérer votre candidature et évaluer votre adéquation au poste. Si votre candidature n’aboutit pas, vos données peuvent être conservées 2 ans à compter de notre dernier échange ou de la clôture du recrutement afin de constituer & gérer un vivier de candidats. Vous pouvez vous opposer à tout moment et demander la suppression de vos données en écrivant à : [email protected].
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🇬🇧 Personal Data

Pennylane processes your data to manage your application and assess your suitability for the position. If your application is unsuccessful, your data may be retained for 2 years from our last exchange or the closing of the recruitment process, in order to build and manage a candidate pool. You may object at any time and request the deletion of your data by writing to [email protected]. Learn more

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