Accountant

The role

You will build an in-house accounting function from the ground up. You will handle accounts payable, month-end support, and process automation.

What you will do

• Process, check, and post incoming invoices from Moss into DATEV
• Handle expenses and credit card bookings
• Maintain vendor master data and keep supplier accounts reconciled
• Prepare payment runs
• Reconcile bank transactions
• Prepare accruals and reconciliations
• Support monthly close and year-end with auditors
• Keep documentation GoBD-compliant and audit-ready
• Partner with Ops, Procurement and budget owners to resolve invoice and cost questions
• Spot manual steps and automate them and contribute to ERP rollout

Required qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of hands-on bookkeeping experience, ideally in accounts payable
• Comfortable when processes don't exist yet
• Solid understanding of German GAAP (HGB) and VAT basics
• Precise and fast
• Analytical and confident in Excel or Google Sheets for reconciliations
• Fluent in English

Nice to have

• German is a strong plus (B1 or better)
• Experience in a fast-growing company (start-up or scale-up), or in a tax firm serving start-up clients
• Hands-on with DATEV Rechnungswesen and DATEV Unternehmen online (DUO)
• Training as Steuerfachangestellte/r or Kaufmann/-frau
• Experience with Moss or similar spend management tools
• Automation experience or strong tech curiosity: built workflows with n8n, Zapier, or Make, or used Claude Code or similar AI tools

Benefits

• Flexible working
• 30 vacation days
• L&D budget
• competitive compensation
• VSOPs (share package)
• meal vouchers
• Urban Sports membership
• vibrant office culture

About the company

trawa is a hyper-growth energy-tech company that enables mid-sized companies to access green, intelligent energy. The business model sits at the intersection of energy, tech, and finance.