Chaos
1 month ago
Senior Accountant, Germany (m/f/d)
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Company information
- Company
- Chaos
- Location
- Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Germany
- Posted
- 1 month ago
Job description
**This position is based in Karlsruhe, Germany with hybrid working options. Applicants must hold a valid work/residence permit for the respective location.**
Chaos is a leading global software company that provides world-class visualization and design solutions, empowering creative minds to bring ideas to life.
For over twenty years, Chaos has developed innovative technologies serving multiple industries, including architecture and design, media and entertainment, and product e-commerce. Chaos’ solutions help architects, designers, VFX artists/animators, and other creative professionals share ideas, optimize workflows, and create immersive experiences.
Headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, Chaos is a global company with offices in 11 cities worldwide. In 2022, Chaos and Enscape merged, bringing together two industry-leading companies into one. Since then, Chaos has continued to grow with the additions of Cylindo, AXYZ Design, and Evolve Lab, further expanding our expertise and solutions across architecture, design, e-commerce, and AI. For more information, please visit chaos.com.
Role Overview
The Senior Accountant role owns the end-to-end accounting for Chaos GmbH and acts as Global Process Owner (GPO) for intercompany and transfer pricing. This role works closely with colleagues across our global business, bringing both technical rigour and a process-improvement mindset to enable our business to move fast and operate at scale.
Main Responsibilities
Own the full accounting cycle for Chaos GmbH, including general ledger, AP/AR, fixed assets, and monthly/quarterly/annual close in line with HGB and group reporting requirements.
Serve as primary contact for external auditors, tax advisors, and statutory filings.
Manage local treasury and payment cycles in coordination with Chaos’s group finance team.
Define and maintain global standards for transfer pricing working with teams across Chaos’s international entities to harmonise workflows, close process gaps, and drive automation in NetSuite and connected finance tools.
Actively manage the intercompany and transfer pricing positions across the group, working directly with external advisors in relation to the technical tax aspects of transfer pricing to ensure in line with legislation.
Support the Accounting Director with process improvement across finance. Suggest opportunities and ways of improving overall efficiencies and improved ways of working to enable a culture of optimisation.
Required Experience
Track record in financial accounting within an international corporate environment ideally a technology, software, or SaaS business.
Experience with German statutory requirements and local GAAP is essential.
Experience with large international group consolidations and international accounting standards is essential.
Experience of intercompany and transfer pricing is essential.
Required Skills
Advanced command of German GAAP (HGB).
Detailed knowledge of IFRS and group consolidation.
Hands-on experience with NetSuite or a comparable ERP, and comfort with finance tooling in a software product environment.
Fluent in German and English (written and spoken).
Able to operate confidently across Chaos’s multicultural, multi-timezone teams.
A process-improvement mindset, with the ability to step back from operational tasks, spot inefficiencies, and build scalable solutions that work across the group.
Required Qualifications and Certifications
Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a comparable field.
A professional qualification (e.g. ACCA, or equivalent) is advantageous but not required if offset by strong practical experience.
We welcome people who value teamwork, stick to their commitments and are curious to explore new ways for achieving mastery. If you believe that you are a good match for the job, just send us your CV in English.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Confidentiality of all applications is assured.
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Required skills
- teamwork
- english
- technology
- german
- design
- confidentiality
- accounting
- finance
- ai
- financial accounting
- automation
- general ledger
- erp
- saas
- process improvement
- germany
- architecture
- design solutions
- workflows
- senior accountant
- visualization
- statutory filings
- acca
- ifrs
- software company
- entertainment
- hybrid
- legislation
- curious
- hgb
- optimisation
- international accounting standards
- transfer pricing
- intercompany
- fixed assets
- media
- cv
- applications
- global business
- efficiencies
- netsuite
- work permit
- residence permit
- tax advisors
- global standards
- group reporting
- multicultural
- ap/ar
- external auditors
- local gaap
- enscape
- scalable solutions
- global company
- monthly close
- animators
- mastery
- immersive experiences
- karlsruhe
- arbeitnow
- creative professionals
- commitments
- ways of working
- process-improvement mindset
- finance tools
- german gaap
- process gaps
- international entities
- headquartered
- shortlisted candidates
- product e-commerce
- vfx artists
- cylindo
- axyz design
- evolve lab
- end-to-end accounting
- global process owner (gpo)
- technical rigour
- quarterly close
- annual close
- local treasury
- payment cycles
- group finance team
- harmonise workflows
- technical tax aspects
- accounting director
- international corporate environment
- german statutory requirements
- group consolidations
- finance tooling
- software product environment
- multi-timezone
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