Principal Accountant (m/f/d)

Your Next Big Adventure Starts Here! eyeo has a complex, multi-entity legal structure spanning Germany and several other jurisdictions, built up through years of organic growth and acquisition. Over the past 18 months, our European Accounting team rebuilt the function from the ground up — a close process and controls where there used to be none. The close now runs in five days and the foundation is solid, though a significant multi-year external audit backlog still needs to be cleared. You have the technical depth and independent judgment to bring real value to a function like this, partnering with our Senior European Accounting Manager across European Accounting and Group Accounting so the team has real depth rather than a single point of failure: Have you ever picked up a multi-year, multi-jurisdiction audit backlog and turned it into a closed chapter? Join us and be the leading force, together with our Senior Accounting Manager, in clearing a significant external audit backlog dating back to 2022 — real remediation work, not steady-state PBC support, and a challenge that needs someone who can independently work through complex, aged technical questions. You deliver across the full audit and technical accounting domain. Whether it’s owning significant portions of the external audit process end-to-end — PBC preparation, auditor liaison, and resolution of technical accounting queries — or preparing technical accounting analyses under HGB and IFRS for audit and internal use, you feel comfortable solving the puzzle. And if you don’t know how, you are happy to dive right in and learn! You design and build consolidation capability that lasts. Your mind naturally maps out how entity hierarchies, intercompany elimination rules, chart-of-accounts and segment mappings, and currency translation setup connect, and you find satisfaction in double-teaming with our Group Senior Accountant to transition our consolidations from LucaNet to NetSuite — taking a co-leading role in sta