Senior Manager Accounting & Controlling (m/w/d)

The role

You will manage mandates from ongoing accounting through to financial statements and advisory conversations. You will lead a team and report to management while increasing automation in accounting processes.

What you will do

• Responsible for ongoing accounting of mandates with high automation
• Prepare commercial annual financial statements including notes and reports
• Define and standardize closing processes under deadline pressure
• Conduct monthly or quarterly advisory meetings with entrepreneurs
• Build planning and control based on ongoing accounting
• Accompany financing and bank discussions
• Lead the team technically and disciplinarily
• Develop experience levels within the line
• Tailor control services to scale with mandate volume

Required qualifications

• Passed the Wirtschaftsprüfer-Examen or close to it, or several years of responsibility for commercial annual financial statements of medium-sized companies
• Experience creating rather than just auditing financial statements
• Experience carrying economic expertise directly to entrepreneurs
• Proficiency in HGB accounting for medium-sized companies
• Ability to work with AI as a tool for plausibility, anomaly detection, planning, and drafting

Nice to have

• Mechanics of planning and financing including multi-year planning, investment calculation, and rating logic
• Tax sensitivity to recognize when commercial decisions are tax-relevant

Benefits

• Exam promotion with 25,000 EUR qualification budget and three months of release
• 100% coverage of childcare costs
• EGYM Wellpass
• Company pension scheme
• Job-Ticket with 90% subsidy
• Home office equipment and a device of choice from a catalog
• One book per month from the Vogel canon
• AI tools without token limits or budget caps
• 28 days of vacation
• Daily lunch and dinner provided

Before you apply

• Application process typically includes a written task, a 30-minute interview, a joint working session on a real problem, and an on-site meeting with the team and dinner

About the company

Vogel is a leading medium-sized consultancy in Germany, family-owned in the second generation since 1959. It operates at three locations: Aalen, Bopfingen, and München.