(Senior) Group Accountant

**Who We **Are**:
For 25 years, Native Instruments has been at the heart of musical innovation. We've created communities, pushed technological boundaries, and opened new creative horizons for amateurs and professionals alike. Guided by our mission to make music creation more inclusive and accessible, Native hardware, software, and digital services provide fully-integrated solutions for musicians, producers, and DJs of all genres and levels of experience. **Native Instruments is part of Soundwide**, whose mission is to make music and audio creation a more joyful and inspiring experience for creators everywhere by helping them to find, and stay in, their creative flow. Soundwide's collective vision is to inspire and empower creators to express themselves and reimagine the future of sound.

Our Group Accounting team is critical to the successful growth story of Native Instruments, from performing seemingly routine tasks to providing important insights, and enabling our stakeholders to make commercially savvy and robust decisions. We strive to deliver the best possible performance, self-reflect and continuously learn and grow to the next stage to not only maintain high quality standards and organizational excellence, but also build on our successes to achieve more.

**What You'll Do**:

- You will prepare and consolidate the group financial statements according to legal and company guidelines (German GAAP and potentially later on IFRS)
- Independently support and prepare year-end financial statements according to German GAAP and IFRS
- You will support with GAAP translation to IFRS
- Further improve group accounting guidelines and consolidation processes
- Work in close collaboration with auditors and external advisors
- Communicate and collaborate with accounting teams of other worldwide subsidiaries, as well as our internal Controlling/FP&A department and other relevant stakeholders
- You will check, validate and analyze the subsidiary companies reporting packages as well as actuals vs. forecasted group figures
- Manage and support queries around accounting standards and tax topics
- Continuously evaluate and optimize existing reporting tools and systems

**What You'll Need**:

- You already bring significant experience working in the field of group/corporate accounting and/or with an Big 4 accounting firm
- You have a solid working knowledge of consolidation and ideally have been actively contributing to the consolidation process and/or tool improvement
- You have a firm grasp of German GAAP and ideally some exposure to IFRS
- Your are Degree qualified with a focus on Accounting, Finance, Business or a related discipline
- You are at ease within an international environment and you are fluent (at least B1 level) in both German and English
- Your strong communication skills support you to present and illustrate complex topics to a range of business stakeholders
- You can demonstrate your proficiency in data analytics, Microsoft/Google tools and major ERP systems
- You offer a track record of thriving in deadline centric environments and are comfortable working with change and ambiguity

**About Us**:
**Native Instruments is a Soundwide company; together we embrace diversity and a respect for all people.** We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we believe the foundation of our dynamic and pioneering spirit starts with a fair and inclusive culture. At Soundwide we strive to embrace teamwork and passion, deliver inspiring experiences, continuously innovate and empower our communities, while also serving our planet.