Head of Accounting (Remote Europe or Hybrid Berlin/London)

Requirements

• 📚 Accounting background: You come from statutory accounting, financial reporting, close, filings, and audit - not primarily FP&A, management reporting, business partnering, or German Controlling.
• 📈 Scaling experience: You have lived through rapid finance scaling, ideally from Series B toward IPO readiness, and understand what breaks as a finance function grows.
• 🎓 Qualified accountant: You hold an ACA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent qualification, with HGB expertise alongside IFRS or US GAAP as a strong differentiator.
• 🌍 Multi-entity international experience: You have owned statutory reporting across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, including VAT, transfer pricing, and group consolidation complexity.
• 🧾 Tax literacy: You can hold your own with external tax advisors, understand the commercial implications of tax decisions, and know when to challenge or escalate.
• 🤖 AI fluency: You have used AI to materially change how you work and have a clear point of view on what an AI-native finance function should look like at scale.
• 👥 Team leadership: You have built or managed an accounting team, hiring, developing, and leading people with high standards and clear upward career progression.
• 📍 Europe-based: You are based in Europe and comfortable working in a remote-first, distributed environment.
• 🚀 Pre-IPO or PE-backed experience: You have been inside a company preparing for a liquidity event, IPO readiness, or operating in a PE-backed environment.
• 🔎 Big 4 background: You started your career at EY, Deloitte, PwC, or KPMG before moving in-house, ideally into a tech or SaaS environment.
• 🛠️ ERP implementation: You have led or played a major role in an ERP implementation or significant syst

Benefits

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The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination. n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we're changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact. Since our founding in 2019, we've grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we've: Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world's Top 40 most popular projects Backed by top investors, from Sequoia's first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation That's the company we've built. Now we'd love to see what you can build. If you're applying, try n8n out - whether you're technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register . We're in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us. 🎯 Your main goal will be to build and lead a scalable, AI-first accounting, tax oversight, and controls function that enables n8n's next stage of sustainable, international growth. To do so, you'll own the accounting foundations that make Finance faster, more reliable, and ready to scale across entities and markets: CORE ACCOUNTING & CLOSE Own end-to-end statutory accounting across AP, AR, GL, fixed assets, accruals, deferrals, and payroll posting verification. Drive a reliable sub-5-day monthly close, with clear policies, documentation, and a robust close calendar. Prepare monthly and annual financials, coordinate statutory filings and audits, and continuously improve reporting quality. GROUP ACCOUNTING, TAX OVERSIGHT & COMPLIANCE Lead multi-entity statutory reporting, group consolidation, and the definition of consistent accounting policies across jurisdictions. Oversee cross-border complexity across VAT, transfer pricing, and intercompany processes, knowing when to involve and challenge external advisors. Prepare the accounting, tax oversight, and control environment to support future capital markets transactions, including a potential IPO. INSOURCING, CONTROLS & TREASURY Lead the insourcing of accounting from our external bookkeeper, capturing processes, SLAs, controls, and ownership. Establish a crisp RACI, close calendar, and control framework aligned with audit readiness and multi-entity operations. Oversee payments, bank reconciliations, expense approvals, and short- to mid-term cash visibility, including 13-week forecasting. TEAM LEADERSHIP, SYSTEMS & AI-NATIVE FINANCE Lead, hire, coach, and develop an accounting team while defining the future org design for Core Accounting, Treasury, and Tax. Evaluate and implement a next-generation ERP and finance automation stack that can support n8n's scale. Partner with RevOps, People, Legal, Data, Engineering, and GTM teams on topics such as revenue recognition and quote-to-cash.

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