Senior Accountant (M/F/D)

**This position is based in the Karlsruhe area with hybrid working options (usually one day per week). Applicants must hold a valid work/residence permit for the respective location.**

Chaos is a leading global software company that provides world-class visualization and design solutions, empowering creative minds to bring ideas to life.

For over twenty years, Chaos has developed innovative technologies serving multiple industries, including architecture and design, media and entertainment, and product e-commerce. Chaos’ solutions help architects, designers, VFX artists/animators, and other creative professionals share ideas, optimize workflows, and create immersive experiences.

Headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, Chaos is a global company with offices in 11 cities worldwide. In 2022, Chaos and Enscape merged, bringing together two industry-leading companies into one. Since then, Chaos has continued to grow with the additions of Cylindo, AXYZ Design, and Evolve Lab, further expanding our expertise and solutions across architecture, design, e-commerce, and AI. For more information, please visit chaos.com.

Role Overview

The Senior Accountant owns the end-to-end accounting for Chaos’s German entity, which is the main distributor of Chaos products worldwide. The role ensures full statutory compliance and timely financial reporting, and works closely with finance colleagues across the global business, combining technical accounting rigour with a process-improvement mindset so the business can move fast and operate at scale. This role requires an accountant with strong German GAAP and tax knowledge and experience in an international group.

Main Responsibilities

• Own the full accounting cycle for Chaos Software GmbH, including general ledger, fixed assets, payroll postings, reconciliations, and monthly, quarterly and annual close, in line with German GAAP and group reporting requirements.

• Act as the primary contact for external auditors, tax advisors and statutory filings.

• Manage local treasury activity and payment cycles in coordination with the group finance team.

• Prepare and submit all VAT returns and filings.

• Define and maintain global standards for AP processes with teams across Chaos’s international entities, harmonising workflows, closing process gaps and driving automation in NetSuite and connected finance tools.

• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and automate workflows, supporting the Accounting Director in building a culture of continuous improvement across finance.

• Support accounting activities across the wider international group, including ad hoc projects as required.

Requirements:

Required Experience

• 5 years of experience in financial accounting within an international corporate environment, ideally in a technology, software or SaaS business.

• Experience working within an international group structure.

• Experience with German statutory requirements and German GAAP (HGB), including preparing annual financial statements, balance sheet reconciliations and note disclosures.

• Good understanding of German tax law, including corporate tax, trade tax, VAT declarations and withholding taxes.

• Experience driving process improvement projects across finance.

• Hands-on experience with NetSuite or a comparable ERP, and familiarity with finance tooling in a software product environment.

• Degree in Finance, Accounting or a comparable field.

• Experience with IFRS is an advantage.

• Experience with intercompany transactions and transfer pricing is an advantage.

• A professional qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA) is an advantage and is not required where offset by strong practical experience.

Required Skills

• Applies mastery of German accounting principles to prepare accurate, compliant statutory financial statements.

• Works confidently across multicultural, multi-timezone teams.

• Steps back from operational tasks to spot inefficiencies and builds scalable solutions that work across the group.

• Fluent German and English, written and spoken, are required. Additional languages are an advantage.

We welcome people who value teamwork, stick to their commitments and are curious to explore new ways for achieving mastery. If you believe that you are a good match for the job, just send us your CV in English.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Confidentiality of all applications is assured.