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SUPPORT OUR GROWTH PLANS AS OUR NEXT HEAD OF ACCOUNTING
Lead and transform our group-wide accounting function, combining deep expertise across General Ledger, Financial Reporting, Tax, Treasury, Accounts Receivable, and Accounts Payable with strong leadership, process improvement, and change-management skills. You’ll own the integrity, accuracy, timeliness, and control environment of the company’s financial records while helping shape a more scalable, automated, and standardised finance organisation.
This is a hands-on transformation role for an experienced accounting leader who is equally comfortable leading a multi-disciplinary team, navigating complex accounting and tax matters, working with auditors and advisors, and driving major change across systems, processes, and legal entities. You’ll report directly to the CFO and play a key role in simplifying and modernising the finance function as the company continues to grow.
WHAT AWAITS YOU AT IPTOR:
- Professional Development: We're committed to fostering professional development and career growth. Our comprehensive training and development programs empower employees to reach their full potential.
- A Collaborative and Innovative culture: At Iptor, our culture thrives on recognition, trust, and respect. We foster an inclusive and supportive environment valuing everyone’s contributions. We recognize dedication through an attractive salary package, bonuses, and generous vacation days. Our success is built upon collaboration and innovation.
Get a full overview at: Careers - Iptor
YOUR HELP AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR JOURNEY
- Lead the group-wide accounting organisation across Tax, Treasury, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, General Ledger, and Financial Reporting.
- Own the integrity of the general ledger and group chart of accounts across all legal entities.
- Drive a progressively faster, more predictable, and better-controlled month-, quarter-, and year-end close.
- Apply group accounting policies and technical accounting judgements, including revenue recognition for software and subscription arrangements.
- Own monthly, quarterly, and annual group reporting, consolidation, and management reporting.
- Oversee statutory accounts and local GAAP filings across all entities.
- Lead the external audit relationship and ensure a clean, well-evidenced audit process.
- Standardise reconciliations, reporting processes, and finance controls across the group.
- Own direct and indirect tax compliance, filings, provisioning, transfer pricing, and intercompany arrangements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Manage relationships with external tax advisors and coordinate responses to tax authority audits and enquiries.
- Own cash management, liquidity forecasting, FX exposure, and intercompany funding.
- Rationalise the group’s banking structure alongside the reduction of legal entities while maintaining strong payment controls and segregation of duties.
- Lead the order-to-cash process, including billing accuracy, collections, cash application, credit control, and dispute management.
- Drive measurable improvements in DSO, cash collection, and aged receivables.
- Partner with Sales, Customer Success, Legal, and other stakeholders on billing terms, disputes, subscriptions, renewals, and customer contracts.
- Own the procure-to-pay process, including invoice processing, approvals, payment runs, supplier master data, and spend controls.
- Strengthen approval hierarchies and segregation of duties while improving supplier terms and working capital.
- Consolidate duplicate suppliers and payment processes across entities.
- Develop and deliver a prioritised, costed finance automation roadmap, partnering with IT on systems, configuration, data, and implementation.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processing and redirect team capacity towards analysis, control, and business partnering.
- Lead the accounting workstream of the legal entity rationalisation programme, working closely with Legal, Tax, and external advisors.
- Support mergers, liquidations, dormancy, and other entity changes from an accounting perspective, ensuring no lapses in statutory compliance.
- Simplify the downstream finance estate, including bank accounts, statutory filings, intercompany flows, and reporting requirements.
- Lead the team through change, building capability, ownership, and bench strength for a leaner and more automated operating model.
- Communicate complex accounting, tax, and financial matters clearly to senior management, the executive team, and the board.
- Build strong relationships with auditors, tax authorities, banks, advisors, and internal stakeholders while maintaining appropriate professional challenge.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of finance processes, controls, systems, and ways of working.
YOU STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD IF YOU HAVE
- Qualified accountant with a recognised qualification such as CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, StB/WP, or local equivalent.
- Substantial post-qualification experience in a senior accounting or finance leadership role.
- Proven experience leading a multi-disciplinary accounting function spanning Tax, Treasury, AR, AP, GL, and Financial Reporting.
- Experience operating within a multi-entity, multi-currency international group.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, including experience with software, SaaS, or subscription businesses and revenue recognition.
- Proven track record of improving and automating finance processes, systems, and controls.
- Experience moving a finance organisation from manual, entity-by-entity processes towards standardised and automated operations.
- Practical experience with legal entity rationalisation, post-merger integration, restructuring, mergers, liquidations, or dormancy programmes.
- Strong understanding of group consolidation, statutory reporting, local GAAP requirements, and financial controls.
- Experience managing external audits and building effective relationships with auditors and professional advisors.
- Strong understanding of direct and indirect taxation, transfer pricing, and intercompany arrangements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience managing treasury activities including cash management, liquidity forecasting, FX, banking structures, and intercompany funding.
- Proven ability to improve working capital through effective AR, AP, collections, payment, and supplier management.
- Strong process improvement and change-management skills, with the ability to prioritise and sequence transformation realistically.
- Comfortable operating with a hands-on mentality in a mid-sized, growing company.
- Excellent leadership and people-development skills, with a track record of coaching teams and building stronger finance capabilities.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence senior leaders and non-finance stakeholders.
- Ability to explain complex accounting and tax matters clearly and turn them into decision-ready recommendations.
- Confident challenging stakeholders constructively while building trusted relationships across the business.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance audiences.
- Native-level fluency in Polish and strong business English are essential.
- Working knowledge of German is an advantage.
- Experience working in SaaS, software, or technology environments is strongly preferred.
- Experience with finance transformation, ERP implementation, automation, or process optimisation is a strong advantage.
INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY
At Iptor, diversity and inclusion are at the core of our values. We believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation and excellence. We foster an inclusive workplace where every individual's contributions are celebrated and respected. Join us in creating an environment where each individual's unique contributions shape our success. 🌟
