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Vogel

Advises German businesses on tax and accounting

Associate Strategy & Operations

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMunich, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • You have one to three years of operational work experience, or you are coming directly from university.
  • You can structure and document a process clearly enough that another person can follow it without asking you.
  • You work directly in the tools rather than merely formulating requirements for others.
  • You use AI as a standard tool for process analysis, automation, reporting, and drafting, and view repetitive tasks as opportunities for automation.
  • For open-ended tasks, you make your assumptions explicit, propose a direction, and adjust as you go.
  • You can implement changes despite resistance while maintaining relationships, and you hold your work to a high standard.

Responsibilities

  • Guide the integration of each newly acquired unit into the shared setup by introducing tools, harmonizing processes, transferring data, and bringing people along.
  • Document conditions before and after each integration so its impact can be demonstrated.
  • Work on site with the people who will carry out each change.
  • Fix manual, fragmented processes at their root by automating the resulting workflows, working directly in the tools.
  • Implement changes even where they are initially unwelcome, without damaging relationships with the location.
  • Document each process so another person can operate it, and ensure it can handle twice the client volume without requiring twice as many people.
  • Own and automate internal workflows for onboarding, contracts, systems, and location setup so they can be used across all locations.
  • Build reporting to monitor utilization, turnaround times, and bottlenecks across locations, and make bottlenecks visible.
  • Contribute observations and raise issues regardless of tenure.
  • After six months, independently own three processes from analysis through on-site implementation, with at least one automated; keep assigned internal-control areas running without follow-up and build personal familiarity with colleagues through on-site work.
  • After twelve months, measurably improve ten processes, document the results with data, eliminate at least three manual tasks entirely, and independently build and oversee an integration process from start to finish.
  • After twenty-four months, fully own a defined area and serve as its escalation contact; help automate the internal operating system and develop at least two early-career colleagues toward independent work.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a fast-growing environment such as a scale-up, consulting firm, or a transforming medium-sized business.
  • A process or automation project that has been operated in production.
  • A background combining commercial vocational training and university study; psychology or sociology experience in organizations; or experience founding and organizing a business, including learning from an unsuccessful venture.

About the Company

Vogel

Advises German businesses on tax and accounting

Vogel is a German tax and business advisory group serving midsize companies, entrepreneurs and business-owning families. Its advisers prepare annual financial statements and tax returns, run payroll and management accounting, and help clients plan succession, reorganizations and transactions. Teams also redesign finance processes and introduce digital tools, combining recurring accounting work with advice on decisions that affect a business over several years. The group earns service fees for ongoing accounting and payroll work, tax compliance and separate advisory assignments. Founded in 1959, Vogel is headquartered in Aalen, Germany, with additional offices in Bopfingen and Munich.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Aalen, Germany
Founded
1959

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