About the Role
DR. VIVIEN KARL is a fast-growing Berlin startup redefining the female intimate care market with natural, science-based, and aesthetic products. We are looking for support for our Finance team. Your work will ensure our financial processes run reliably and that important business decisions can be made on a clean data basis.
Responsibilities
- Review and process incoming invoices, identify incorrect invoices, reject them, and request corrected documents from suppliers, ensuring payment deadlines are met.
- Be responsible for preparatory accounts payable and accounts receivable accounting (SKR04), working closely with our tax office.
- Participate in monthly and annual financial statements and prepare our monthly reporting, including how accounting flows into our company key figures.
- Regularly coordinate with the team on promotions, new products, new marketplaces and warehouse locations, inventory levels and stocktaking, as well as out-of-stock situations, down payments, and their deliveries.
- Work with our accounting interfaces: understand which data can be exported from Shopify and Amazon, what it means, and how it gets into accounting via mapping systems (e.g., Pathway).
- Create travel expense reports, manage our expense management via Spendesk, and support with other administrative finance topics.
- Respond reliably to inquiries and feedback, independently follow up on missing or incorrect information, and contribute your own ideas to continuously question and improve existing processes.
Requirements
- Completed university degree or completed vocational training in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a comparable qualification – ideally with initial professional experience in accounting.
- Sound knowledge of proper invoices and confident handling of booking keys and accounting systems, especially according to SKR04.
- Practical experience with DATEV Unternehmen online; knowledge of Spendesk and accounting interfaces is a plus.
- Interest in e-commerce technology and interfaces: You want to understand how data is generated, exported, and processed from Shopify and Amazon.
- Fundamental understanding of reporting and how accounting influences it.
- Affinity for numbers as well as a structured, careful, and reliable way of working – combined with initiative and joy in taking responsibility.
- Openness to new things and changes, as well as the willingness to critically question processes.
- Confident handling of Excel or Google Sheets.
- Very good German language skills, both written and spoken.
Skills
- Accounting
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- SKR04
- DATEV Unternehmen online
- Spendesk
- Shopify
- Amazon
- Reporting
- Excel
- Google Sheets
Work Type
- Part-time
- 20 hours/week
- Flexible working hours
Experience Level
- Initial professional experience in accounting
Education Level
- Completed university degree or completed vocational training in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or a comparable qualification
Benefits
- Take on responsibility from day 1 and make a real contribution to the company's success.
- Operational independence with close professional guidance and a steep learning curve.
- A team that truly understands each other – we work at eye level, have a lot of fun together, and are passionate about ensuring no woman has to suffer from intimate discomfort.
- A fixed office day on Mondays, including a shared lunch at the company's expense.
- An environment where learning, responsibility, and purpose come together.
- Free Urban Sports membership.
About the Company
- DR. VIVIEN KARL is a young, fast-growing Berlin startup that is redefining the market for female intimate care with natural, science-based, and aesthetic products.
- We live and love female empowerment.
