Senior Director, Accounting & Controlling

About the role

Camunda is looking for a Senior Director, Accounting & Controlling to lead and evolve our global Accounting function as we scale toward €500M ARR. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines solid technical accounting depth with a genuine drive to build, automate, and improve; a leader who approaches complexity with a "I can figure this out" and "bias for action" mindset rather than defaulting to caution. You will be accountable for the full accounting engine: close, reporting, controls, and policy. But equally important is your ability to move at pace, partner credibly with Sales, RevOps, and the broader business, and exercise practical judgment that enables growth rather than slowing it down. This is not a role for someone who over-indexes on risk at the expense of momentum. A central part of this role is transformation. Camunda has an Enterprise Agentic Automation Team and a genuine appetite to modernize how Finance operates. We're looking for someone who is energized by that opportunity, who sees AI-enabled automation not as a buzzword but as a lever they personally want to pull, in partnership with the teams around them. Camunda operates as a German GmbH consolidating under IFRS, with subsidiaries in the U.S., UK, and Singapore. Our core ERP is NetSuite. This role reports directly to the CFO and is a key member of the Finance leadership team. Team scope (15 FTE): Accounting Operations, Revenue Accounting, Group Reporting, Tax & Treasury, Global Payroll

Responsibilities

• Lead the Global Accounting Function:
• Own the end-to-end accounting engine, including close, reporting, controls, and policy.
• Ensure accurate, timely IFRS reporting and strong audit outcomes.
• Build a scalable operating model across people, process, systems, and global footprint; own global payroll and treasury operations and controls
• Drive Practical Technical Accounting Judgment:
• Serve as the in-house expert on complex accounting topics: revenue recognition, commissions, equity, payroll, intercompany, FX, treasury, and policy interpretation.
• Partner with Sales and RevOps to shape accounting treatment during deal design, commission structuring, pricing decisions, and global entity strategy
• Translate accounting requirements into workable business solutions that balance growth, margin, and appropriate risk.
• Build and Develop a High-Performing Team:
• Hire, develop, and retain strong managers and individual contributors across a distributed organization.
• Create clear ownership, accountability, and succession depth across the team.
• Bring empathy and intentionality to how you lead-building a team culture where people grow and do their best work.
• Lead Automation and Systems Transformation:
• Champion and drive automation across accounting workflows in close partnership with Camunda's Enterprise Agentic Automation Team.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools to reduce manual effort, improve insight quality, and scale accounting capacity without scaling headcount proportionally.
• Mature the control environment progressively toward SOX readiness, with an eye toward future capital events.
• Manage External Workstreams:
• Lead auditors, tax advisors, payroll providers, and key external partners.
• Support major milestones including fundraising, M&A, or IPO readiness workstreams
• What You Bring
• Leadership & Scope:
• Meaningful experience leading an Accounting or Controller function in a complex, multi-entity, distributed environment-ideally at a high-growth, recurring-revenue software company of comparable scale and complexity to Camunda.
• Proven ability to lead through others while staying close enough to the work to exercise sound technical judgment.
• A track record of building teams with real depth, not just coverage-people

Benefits

Additional Information

Register here ! Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration , enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex, end-to-end business processes. With built-in governance, auditability, and human oversight, Camunda gives enterprises the control they need to move AI from pilots to production - safely and at scale. Trusted by over 700 organizations worldwide , including 9 of top 10 US banks, Camunda helps enterprises boost operational efficiency, accelerate time-to-value, and deliver better customer experiences. Fully remote and global, we are in the middle of something bigger: transforming into an AI-first organisation, built on our own platform . We use Agentic AI to automate, orchestrate intelligent processes, and elevate human contribution across every team. Named GP Bullhound's Top 100 Next Unicorn list, 2025 Great Place to Work certified. Visionary in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies. ranked 3rd in Flexa's 2026 Most Flexible Companies , We're growing fast and looking for top talent to join our team. If you want meaningful work, visible impact and put something genuinely rare on your CV, keep reading.

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