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    Senior Director, Accounting & Controlling

    Camunda
    Remote
    Remote
    Director
    Full Time
    7 days ago
    💰$225,900 - $364,300
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    Requirements

    • Meaningful experience leading an Accounting or Controller function in a complex, multi-entity, distributed environment
    • Proven ability to lead through others while exercising sound technical judgment
    • Track record of building teams with depth
    • Strong technical accounting judgment with experience in revenue transactions, commissions, equity, payroll, and intercompany structures
    • Exposure to fundraising rounds, M&A activity, and managing through external audits
    • Familiarity with global payroll and multi-jurisdiction operations
    • Excited about automation and AI as tools for transforming accounting teams
    • Experience using modern tools to modernize workflows and reduce manual effort
    • NetSuite experience preferred
    • Bias for action and ability to lean into ambiguity
    • Practical judgment to partner with Sales and business
    • Comfortable with operational transformation
    • Available to start workday at 7am ET for global collaboration
    • 6+ years of people leadership experience in Accounting or Controller function
    • CPA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification strongly preferred
    • Enterprise SaaS or software industry experience
    • Prior experience in remote-first or highly distributed organizations

    What You'll Do

    • Lead the global accounting function including close, reporting, controls, and policy
    • Ensure accurate, timely IFRS reporting and strong audit outcomes
    • Build a scalable operating model across people, process, systems, and global footprint
    • Own global payroll and treasury operations and controls
    • Serve as the in-house expert on complex accounting topics such as revenue recognition, commissions, equity, payroll, intercompany, FX, treasury, and policy interpretation
    • Partner with Sales and RevOps to shape accounting treatment during deal design, commission structuring, pricing decisions, and global entity strategy
    • Translate accounting requirements into workable business solutions balancing growth, margin, and risk
    • Hire, develop, and retain strong managers and individual contributors across a distributed organization
    • Create clear ownership, accountability, and succession depth across the team
    • Build a team culture where people grow and do their best work
    • Champion and drive automation across accounting workflows in partnership with the Enterprise Agentic Automation Team
    • Leverage AI-enabled tools to reduce manual effort, improve insight quality, and scale accounting capacity
    • Mature the control environment progressively toward SOX readiness
    • Lead auditors, tax advisors, payroll providers, and key external partners
    • Support major milestones including fundraising, M&A, or IPO readiness workstreams

    Nice to Have

    • IFRS experience
    • Big 4 background
    • IPO experience
    • M&A exposure

    Benefits

    • Remote & Flexible work from anywhere with home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off
    • In Person Connection through Annual Kickoff, team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets
    • Health & Wellbeing with locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for mental wellbeing, and Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account
    • Financial Security with retirement and pension plans, life and disability insurance
    • Professional Growth with up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning

    About Camunda

    Camunda enables organizations to orchestrate and automate processes to overcome complexity, increase efficiency, and operationalize AI.

    Berlin, Germany
    500-1000
    IT Services & Consulting