Senior Financial Accountant

The role

You will own the month-end and year-end close for your area under HGB and IFRS. You will manage core operational processes including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable. You will also drive the accounting side of new product and market launches.

What you will do

• Own the month-end and year-end close for your area
• Deliver accurate, timely financials under HGB and IFRS
• Run a reliable daily accounting operation
• Own core operational processes end to end including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, accruals and balance sheet reconciliations
• Drive the accounting side of new product and market launches
• Work with Product, Engineering, Tax and Regulatory Reporting to define accounting treatment and controls
• Analyse the balance sheet and P&L and investigate variances
• Strengthen the control environment and automate manual work
• Act as main contact for external auditors and other Finance teams

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on operational accounting experience (GL, AP/AR, reconciliations, month-end close)
• Experience in a bank, broker, neobank, payments company or fast-growing fintech
• A track record of bringing new products, entities or processes into the accounting books
• Solid knowledge of HGB and IFRS
• Strong ERP experience
• Comfortable with large datasets in Excel
• Fluent English
• Hands-on, structured and detail-oriented

Nice to have

• Partly in Big 4 audit
• Experience with high-volume transactional data
• Knowledge of RechKredV
• SAP S/4HANA
• SQL or BI tools
• Accounting qualification (e.g. ACCA, CPA, Bilanzbuchhalter, StB/WP)
• German

About the company

Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe, operating in 18 countries and serving 10 million customers. The company has a mission to empower everyone to build wealth with easy, safe, and free access to financial systems.