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About the Role
Doodle is seeking an accounting professional to support the Head of Accounting. This role is crucial for maintaining the general ledger, closing processes, and payroll operations as the company experiences rapid growth. The position is based in Berlin and offers an opportunity to impact the company's mission of sustainable scaling and providing financial clarity.
Responsibilities
- Own demanding bookkeeping tasks for the Doodle Group, including accruals, revenue recognition, bank postings, intercompany transactions, and reconciliations.
- Play a key role in the monthly fast close (workday 3), preparing the P&L and balance sheet with account reconciliations.
- Support year-end closing under local GAAP, monthly reporting to the main shareholder for consolidation, and external audits.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly VAT and sales tax returns, collaborating with local tax advisors.
- Act as the accounting payroll expert, reviewing, posting, and reconciling payroll from external providers.
- Assess wage tax and social security treatment for benefits, team events, non-cash compensation, and employee-related costs, serving as the HR partner for these queries.
- Assist in transitioning payroll ownership to Accounting by establishing compliant processes, controls, and documentation.
- Monitor Chargebee invoice imports into NetSuite, resolve sync errors, and ensure revenue and receivables accuracy.
- Perform accounts receivable tasks, including cash application and open-item management.
- Contribute to day-to-day tasks such as accounts payable and bank postings as needed.
- Support treasury functions, including cash management, liquidity planning, and FX.
- Review payment runs for all legal entities and set up related intercompany transactions.
- Enhance accounting processes through automation and AI.
- Support the implementation of new tools and processes.
- Report directly to the Head of Accounting, acting as her right hand and assisting with ad-hoc projects.
Requirements
- A degree in business with a focus on finance, or an apprenticeship in accounting with further training (e.g., Bilanzbuchhalter).
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a general ledger accountant, preferably in an international company with multiple entities and foreign currencies.
- Proven closing experience, including monthly and year-end closings, balance sheets, and reconciliations.
- Solid knowledge of HGB; IFRS knowledge is a plus.
- Strong payroll accounting know-how, including wage tax, social security, and taxable benefits.
- Experience working with external payroll providers; Swiss payroll knowledge is a plus.
- Experience in treasury, such as cash management, liquidity planning, and FX.
- Solid tax compliance background in VAT; experience with intercompany, consolidation, and transfer pricing.
- Hands-on experience with Oracle NetSuite (strongly preferred).
- Excellent Excel skills.
- Experience with Chargebee or other billing-system integrations is a plus.
- A hands-on mentality, comfortable with both complex topics and daily operations.
- Extreme attention to detail and a strong sense of accuracy, with the ability to meet deadlines.
- Fluent English and good German language skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a small matrix organization and an international company.
- A team player who values a strong feedback culture.
- Experience in optimizing processes using AI.
- Ambition to grow into a role with team lead responsibility.
Skills
- General ledger accounting
- Bookkeeping
- Accruals
- Revenue recognition
- Bank postings
- Intercompany transactions
- Reconciliations
- Monthly close
- Year-end closing
- P&L preparation
- Balance sheet preparation
- VAT returns
- Sales tax returns
- Payroll accounting
- Wage tax
- Social security
- Taxable benefits assessment
- Accounts receivable
- Cash application
- Open-item management
- Accounts payable
- Treasury
- Cash management
- Liquidity planning
- FX
- Payment runs
- Process automation
- AI in accounting
- NetSuite
- Excel
- Chargebee
- Process optimization
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience as a general ledger accountant
- Ambition to grow into a role with team lead responsibility
Education Level
- Degree in business with a focus on finance
- Apprenticeship in accounting with further training (e.g., Bilanzbuchhalter)
Benefits
- Support for wage tax and social security treatment of benefits
About the Company
- Doodle serves over 25 million monthly visitors as a popular scheduling tool, known for simple polls and calendar links.
- The company's mission is to evolve Doodle into an AI-first scheduling core that automates work for users and teams globally.