# Senior Accountant Accounts Payable

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Job Overview

As the Senior Accountant Accounts Payable, you will be responsible for Helsing's Procure-to-Pay process and lead the accounts payable team. Your main goals will be to ensure efficient, accurate, and timely processing of incoming invoices and expenses.

## Key Responsibilities

- Support and develop the multi-location Accounts Payable team, fostering an environment for professional growth.

- Own the end-to-end incoming invoice workflow, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with internal controls.

- Play a central role in implementing and configuring Helsing's new AP Workflow Management System.

- Plan, execute, and approve regular national and international payment runs.

- Maintain oversight of vendor master data quality and serve as the escalation point for complex queries.

- Deliver all accounts payable closing activities for month-end and year-end.

- Identify and implement process improvements across the P2P and expense management cycle.

- Ensure consistent adherence to internal compliance frameworks and applicable VAT regulations.

- Support the build-out of a location-independent service and admin team.

## Requirements

- Substantive experience in an Accounts Payable function with functional leadership responsibility.

- Deep, practical knowledge of the end-to-end Procure-to-Pay process, including expense management.

- Proficiency in one or more leading ERP systems and experience with modern invoice approval and workflow tools.

- Experience contributing to or leading finance systems implementation or process automation projects.

- Highly structured and precise approach to financial operations with good judgement.

- Fluency in both German and English.

## Nice to Have

- Hands-on experience with specialist procurement, expense, or AP automation platforms.

- Working knowledge of national and international VAT legislation.

- Experience contributing to or managing Shared Service Centre (SSC) operations.

- Prior involvement in ERP implementation or broader finance transformation programmes.

- Prior experience working in a defence, deep tech, or high-growth technology environment.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary and VSOP options

- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation

- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance

- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)

- Social: regularly company events and monthly social allowances

- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers

- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

## Skills

### Required
- Accounts Payable
- Procure-to-Pay process
- ERP systems
- invoice approval and workflow tools
- German
- English

### Nice to have
- procurement automation platforms
- expense management
- AP automation platforms
- VAT legislation
- Shared Service Centre operations
- ERP implementation
- finance transformation programmes
- defence
- deep tech
- high-growth technology environment

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