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Controller/Buchhalter managing accounting and controlling across The Base’s co-living properties. Preparing HGB reporting, budgets, forecasts, and liquidity analyses.
Responsibilities:
- Support day-to-day financial accounting, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, and fixed asset accounting
- Review, code, and post incoming and outgoing invoices down to the individual supporting-document level
- Perform intercompany reconciliations and settlements between entities
- Administer payment transactions
- Actively support the preparation of annual financial statements in accordance with German GAAP (HGB), including the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement
- Maintain and implement monthly reporting, including commentary on business management analyses (BWA)
- Analyze budget-versus-actual variances and derive business management measures
- Prepare budgets, forecasts, reports, and liquidity overviews for internal and external stakeholders
- Coordinate with tax advisors, auditors, and tax authorities
- Collaborate across multiple entities, handling approximately 150,000 transactions annually
Requirements:
- Solid professional experience in accounting, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, fixed assets, and intercompany accounting—ideally in a multi-entity environment or a role with broad individual responsibility
- Experience reviewing and coding invoices with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Thorough understanding of financial statements prepared in accordance with German GAAP (HGB)
- Experience supporting the preparation of annual financial statements is a plus
- Controlling expertise, including deriving KPIs, forecasts, and business management measures from financial data
- Proficiency in DATEV is required
- Advanced Excel skills
- Fast learner with a high degree of independence and a strong eye for detail
- Fluent German and English, both written and spoken, with strong negotiation skills
- Initial experience with BI tools and building reporting structures from the ground up is a plus
- Background in hospitality, real estate, or a multi-entity environment is a plus
- Interest in automation and process optimization, including API integrations and automated accounting, is a plus
Benefits:
- Opportunity to work on an emerging, innovative business model actively shaping the future of urban living in metropolitan areas worldwide
- Exciting and varied responsibilities in a growing company
- Opportunity to make an impact and actively contribute to the company’s success
- Start-up culture with flat hierarchies
- Open communication
- Positive, international working environment
- Collaboration with people who are passionate about the mission and drive innovative ideas forward
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