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About the Role
Shine is seeking a Principal Product Specialist, German Accounting to bring deep German accounting and tax expertise into our product organization. This role is designed for someone who has a strong understanding of German accounting and tax rules, accounting workflows, and the day-to-day reality of Steuerberater practices in Germany. You will act as a senior subject matter expert, helping our product teams build accounting features that are both technically robust and deeply aligned with the needs of German tax advisors and small businesses.
Responsibilities
- Bring deep expertise in German accounting and tax rules, standards, and day-to-day accounting practices.
- Help product teams understand how Steuerberater work in practice, including their workflows, pain points, vocabulary, tools, and expectations.
- Contribute to the definition of product requirements for accounting- and tax-related features.
- Review product designs, specifications, and user flows to ensure they are accounting-relevant and compliant with German accounting and tax practices.
- Support the Product Director and Product Managers in prioritizing accounting-related product opportunities.
- Act as an internal reference point for questions related to German accounting and tax, Steuerberater workflows, and accounting software usage.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to clarify edge cases and ensure implementation choices are aligned with accounting reality.
- Work with Steuerberater partners to gather feedback, validate product directions, and identify improvement opportunities.
- Help structure internal knowledge around German accounting and tax processes, tools, and best practices.
- Support go-to-market, customer success, and operations teams when accounting expertise is needed.
Requirements
- You have worked as a Steuerberater or in a senior accounting or tax role in Germany.
- You have strong knowledge of German accounting and tax processes, obligations, and professional practices.
- You understand how tax advisory firms operate and how Steuerberater work with SME clients.
- You have experience with German accounting software such as DATEV, Addison, Agenda, Simba, or similar tools.
- You have ideally worked at, or closely with, one of our Steuerberater partners in Germany.
- You are comfortable translating complex accounting and tax topics into clear product and business language.
- You can work effectively with Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, and senior stakeholders.
- You speak perfect German and very good English.
- You are ideally based in the Berlin area.
Skills
- German accounting and tax rules
- Accounting workflows
- Steuerberater practices
- German accounting software (DATEV, Addison, Agenda, Simba, or similar)
- Product requirements definition
- Product design review
- German language
- English language
Location
- Berlin, Germany
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote working days
Experience Level
- Principal
- Senior
About the Company
- Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
- Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin.
- Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.
- Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
- Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
- We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal.
Equal Opportunity
- We follow the principle of equal treatment to consider all job applicants and do not discriminate based on their gender, sexual orientation, color, racial or ethnic origin, religion, disability, etc. as per applicable law.