accountant EMEA

Oyster builds a global employment platform that enables companies to hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere. Its mission is to create a more equal world of work by helping companies everywhere hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.

• Manage full-cycle accounting and intercompany transactions for global subsidiaries
• Prepare and review financial statements and balance-sheet reconciliations across multiple entities
• Lead month-end and year-end close activities, maintaining clear checklists and documentation
• Coordinate monthly, quarterly, and annual local statutory filings and provide complete support packages
• Oversee local statutory audits and resolve auditor questions and adjustments
• Reconcile local statutory records to the ERP
• Conduct financial analysis, identify trends or discrepancies, and present decision-useful insights
• Own assigned ERP activities and improve accounting standards, controls, documentation, and automation
• Coordinate dependencies across Finance, Payroll, Tax, Legal, and external partners
• Execute ad hoc financial projects and support junior teammates with practical guidance

• At least 5 years of accounting experience, including at least 1 year operating at senior-accountant scope
• CPA (or part-qualified) or an equivalent professional accounting qualification
• Strong knowledge of multi-entity accounting, intercompany transactions, financial reporting, reconciliations, close, and audit support
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables and manipulation of large datasets
• Meticulous attention to detail and a logical, evidence-based approach to problem solving
• Ability to prioritize competing deadlines and maintain quality across several entities
• Strong written and spoken English; fluency in written and spoken English
• Proactive follow-through, sound judgment, and a continuous-improvement and automation mindset
• A reliable home internet connection
• You may not be a fit if you prefer a narrowly scoped, single-entity role with limited stakeholder contact; are uncomfortable investigating ambiguous discrepancies or making evidence-based accounting recommendations; need close supervision to manage deadlines, follow up with stakeholders, or keep work documented; or prefer manual routines and have little interest in improving controls, systems, or automation
• Будет плюсом: NetSuite or a comparable ERP, payroll accounting or SaaS experience, high-growth startup or rapidly changing international environment, accounting across EMEA jurisdictions including local statutory reporting and local-to-group reconciliation

• Work from anywhere, provided you are authorized to work where you live
• 40 Days off per year, including holidays and vacation, or more if required by your country
• Access to Plumm, a mental well-being service
• Monthly wellbeing allowance in a ThanksBen wallet
• Flexible parental leave: at least three months’ paid leave for new parents, with job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally
• Stipend for a laptop and home office equipment