Senior Accountant, Friendsurance
Full or Part-Time
Digital insurance solutions
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Digital insurance solutions
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the best digital insurance platform to make people feel at home.
Role
Who you are
- Qualification: A background in accounting or as a Tax Assistant (Steuerfachangestellte/r), plus further certification as a Certified Management Accountant (Bilanzbuchhalter/in) or a comparable degree.
- Experience: At least 5 years of relevant professional experience, ideally as the (sole) person responsible for accounting in a growing medium-sized company or startup
- Expertise: Solid knowledge of consolidation and financial reporting according to HGB and IFRS is mandatory
- DATEV-Expert: Proficient in using DATEV (including "Unternehmen Online") and experience with digital invoice workflows (e.g., Moss, Candis)
- Tools: Strong MS Office skills, particularly in creating Excel reporting and analysis
- Mindset: Analytical sharpness paired with a hands-on mentality and a true entrepreneurial spirit
- Language skills: German at C1 level and professional English for our international team
What the job involves
- Friendsurance is looking for a motivated Senior Accountant (m/f/d), who can join our Finance Team as soon as possible - either as a permanent employee or temporarily as a freelancer - and take responsibility for scaling our financial processes
- Your mission is to keep our finances on track with analytical precision and to secure our growth through proactive optimizations
- You bring a modern drive to accounting, think digitally, and ensure that we always have a full overview of our key metrics
- In short: you make our accounting smarter and more scalable
- End-to-End Accounting: Independent management of accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, and fixed asset accounting, including the precise reconciliation of all accounts
- Closing Excellence: Preparation of monthly and annual financial statements in accordance with HGB (German GAAP) and IFRS, as well as the submission of consolidated VAT returns
- Automation & Digitization: Identification and implementation of tools to automate accounts payable and receivable processes, as well as optimizing interfaces between operational systems and DATEV
- Reporting & Controlling: Setup and maintenance of cost center and cost unit accounting, and the introduction and monitoring of KPIs for management reporting
- Process Optimization: Continuous development of financial closing processes with the goal of an efficient fast-close
- Project Support: Acting as an interface to Sales and Product to assess and proactively help shape the financial impact of new features and partnerships
Our take
Managing your insurance contracts can be a frustrating and time-consuming process. Friendsurance sets out to solve this problem with its innovative digital insurance solutions.
The company launched its peer-to-peer insurance model in 2010, making it the first provider of its kind. Two years later, the company expanded into the lucrative B2B market, creating digital solutions for some of the biggest names in banking and insurance, including Deutsche Bank and Allianz.
Friendsurance's main challenge has been competing with new insurtech disruptors, especially fellow peer-to-peer companies such as Lemonade. Nonetheless, Friendsurance's head start allowed it to carve out a solid market position that has seen it build up both avenues of its business and present new solutions through its digital bancassurance platform.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2016
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $15m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours & work from anywhere
- Personal development budget, continuous feedback & yearly career development talks
- Free German classes, free sports classes, a whole bunch of team events & more benefits
- We provide visa & relocation support
Company HQ
Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Janis Meyer Plath
(CMO & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Business Development Executive at Shell, before co-founding Dreambookers in 2008.
Tim Kunde
(Managing Director & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Senior Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. Was CEO of JT Internet, a Rocket Internet company.
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