Join our team as a client-facing Staff Accountant, where you'll manage financial operations, assist with monthly closes, and provide exceptional client service.
Group Accountant (m/f/d)
📜 Description
- Own the full accounting cycle for Chaos's Holdings and Management entities, including general ledger, AP/AR, fixed assets, and monthly/quarterly/annual close.
- Serve as primary contact for external auditors, tax advisors, and statutory filings.
- Manage local treasury and payment cycles in coordination with the group finance team.
- Define and maintain global standards for consolidation, harmonizing workflows and driving automation.
- Actively manage month-end and year-end closing processes to ensure compliance with international accounting standards.
- Support the Accounting Director in process improvement initiatives across finance.
🛠️ Requirements
- Experience in managing accounting across multiple jurisdictions.
- Ability to serve as primary contact for external auditors and tax advisors.
- Experience in managing treasury and payment cycles.
Full job description
**This position is based in Germany with remote 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 Group Accountant role owns the end-to-end accounting for Chaos’s Holding entities and Management company and acts as Global Process Owner (GPO) the group consolidation. 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’s Holdings and Management entities including general ledger, AP/AR, fixed assets, and monthly/quarterly/annual close in line with German GAAP and group reporting requirements across 8 jurisdictions.
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 the consolidation 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 month-end and year-end closing processes for the entire group to ensure consolidated financial statements are prepared in line with international accounting standards.
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 optimization.
Work with our consolidation software, Lucanet, to ensure data integrity and the effective preparation of consolidated financial statements.
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