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Pennylane

Unified financial operating system for SMEs

Accounting Product Specialist

Financial AccountingPosted on Nov 13
Full-timeRemote in Germany

About the Job

Requirements

  • You must have at least five years of professional experience in a tax consultancy or accounting.
  • You must be accustomed to working with clients and tax advisors and have experience preparing annual financial statements.
  • You must have a thorough understanding of the complete accounting process and experience with closing activities, especially monthly and annual closings.
  • You must speak German and English fluently.
  • You must be able to explain complex accounting topics clearly and practically to different audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Advise the Product team, answer questions, and share accounting expertise so accounting features are developed correctly.
  • Test the product and report bugs and feedback to the Product team.
  • Train external audiences, including partner tax firms, and internal audiences, including new employees in Product, Sales, and Support; create training materials and organize training sessions.
  • Contribute to the product launch and ensure key accounting features are implemented correctly, compliantly, and efficiently.
  • Document essential knowledge about French and German accounting and the German product.
  • Train the first tax firms using Pennylane Germany.
  • Support the hiring and training of key team members, particularly in Partner Success and Customer Success.
  • Support Product teams in developing and validating accounting and tax features through workshops and prototype reviews.
  • Translate accounting and tax requirements into clear product specifications.
  • Document product decisions in light of accounting and tax regulations.
  • Challenge proposed solutions from an accounting and tax perspective, prioritize differing user feedback when needed, and make corresponding decisions.
  • Help define accounting-related test scenarios.
  • Verify the correctness and compliance of calculations, journal entries, financial statements, financial reports, and tax returns.
  • Ensure that product features achieve their expected accounting outcomes.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation on accounting and tax topics.
  • Train internal teams on important accounting concepts.
  • Facilitate knowledge-sharing sessions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a tax consultancy or a comparable environment is desirable.
  • A broad understanding of accounting, familiarity with differences among tax firms, knowledge of tools such as DATEV, and awareness of regional characteristics are desirable.

About the Company

Pennylane

Unified financial operating system for SMEs

Pennylane offers a European financial operating system for SMEs and their accountants, bundling invoicing, payments, cash management, bookkeeping, and tax filings in one collaborative platform. It syncs data across modules and adds German localization, e-invoicing infrastructure, and AI-powered copilots to assist accountants. The platform differentiates itself with native European localization and integrated tax/compliance workflows for accountants and firms. Its goal is to become the standard end-to-end financial ops stack for Europe’s SMEs and their accounting partners.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Series E
Total funding
$443.9M
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2020

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