finance manager in advertising services

Almedia builds a marketing platform that rewards more than 70 million users for engaging with advertisers’ products, providing a new way for major companies to acquire users.

• Automate recurring bookkeeping by integrating spend management and other tools with DATEV and building rules and API-based connectors;
• Migrate bookkeeping and VAT compliance from external providers into a DATEV environment with a clean chart of accounts, documentation, and audit trail;
• Own intercompany reconciliation and consolidation across entities, building the foundation for IFRS as the group scales beyond German GAAP;
• Drive tool setup and integration, including connecting Payhawk and other feeder systems with DATEV;
• Validate tax and account mappings;
• Design standardized procure-to-pay and expense workflows with clear audit trails;
• Eliminate duplicate entry and recurring errors through root-cause fixes and targeted automation;
• Own reporting and advisor coordination by delivering clear, timely financial data within agreed timelines;
• Proactively flag risks and decisions to keep closings, filings, and audits on track;
• Manage relationships with external tax advisors.

• Hands-on in-house accounting experience with AR/AP, bank reconciliations, accruals and deferrals, and monthly closing;
• Experience with DATEV Rechnungswesen or a comparable system;
• A demonstrated case of taking a process from manual and external to in-house and automated, including migration, chart-of-accounts and VAT code design, SOPs, and measurable improvement in close speed or data quality;
• An automation-driven mindset focused on removing manual work from processes;
• Strong intercompany and multi-entity experience, including intercompany invoices, monthly reconciliations, and audit-ready schedules supporting consolidation and group reporting;
• Fluency in German GAAP and readiness for IFRS as the business scales;
• Ability to work independently with periodic review rather than step-by-step direction;
• Nice to have: No additional preferred qualifications specified.

• Berlin-based employees receive equity in Almedia;
• Transport subsidy;
• Breakfasts and lunches;
• Language learning;
• Urban Sports Club;
• Work in a fully stocked modern office;
• Salary range: €65,000-90,000/annum.