Director, Accounting & Tax

Job Title: Director, Accounting & Tax

Location: Poland

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Scandit gives people superpowers. Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows and provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. Join us, as we continue to expand, grow and innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.

Overview

Are you a seasoned accounting leader who combines deep technical expertise with a talent for building teams, working hands-on and scaling processes? We're looking for a Director, Accounting & Tax to take ownership of our global accounting operations, tax and treasury, and to build a finance engine that can support Scandit's next phase of growth.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Group Controlling, you will lead our General Accounting, Accounts Payable and Tax & Treasury functions, and act as deputy across the wider Controlling organization. You'll manage and develop a multidisciplinary team, own the integrity of our books, and partner closely with FP&A, Revenue & Order-to-Cash, external auditors and advisors. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who wants to shape how a fast-growing, international company runs its accounting.

Your opportunity

• Own the month-end, quarter-end and year-end close, including multi-currency consolidation and intercompany accounting ensuring a timely, accurate and well-controlled financial close across all entities
• Lead, mentor and develop the Accounting and Accounts Payable teams, raising the bar on technical skills, ownership and career growth
• Own group tax compliance, including corporate income tax, VAT and transfer pricing operations, working closely with external advisors across jurisdictions
• Oversee day-to-day treasury operations, including cash management, FX exposure and cash-flow forecasting
• Act as deputy to the Senior Director Group Controlling, stepping in on group controlling and governance matters as needed
• Ensure accurate and timely accounts payable and vendor management, with robust controls throughout the procure-to-pay cycle
• Develop, document and scale accounting policies, processes and internal controls to keep pace with the company's growth
• Perform technical accounting research (IFRS, US GAAP and/or Swiss GAAP FER) and translate conclusions into accounting positions, memos and day-to-day practice
• Lead the annual statutory and ad hoc audits, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements in all relevant jurisdictions
• Drive continuous improvement of our ERP and finance systems, automating manual processes and improving data quality
• Partner cross-functionally to deliver clean, reliable financials and actionable insight to senior leadership
• Take a leading role in projects, such as system implementations and establishment-and integration of new legal entities

Who we look for

• 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting, consolidation and tax, including several years leading and developing teams. Experience working in external audit is a plus.
• A recognized professional qualification (e.g. CPA, ACCA or equivalent)
• Strong technical accounting knowledge (IFRS, US GAAP, and/or Swiss GAAP FER) in a multi-entity, international environment
• Solid tax expertise across corporate tax, transfer pricing, VAT and other indirect taxes, ideally with international exposure
• Experience owning or overseeing treasury and cash management
• A track record of scaling accounting operations and strengthening internal controls in a high-growth company, ideally SaaS or B2B technology
• Hands-on experience with NetSuite (or a comparable ERP system) and other tools such as accounting transformation platforms, P2P transformation platforms etc.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, comfortable partnering with leadership and external auditors and advisors
• A proactive, process-oriented leader with a continuous improvement mindset, open to embracing the opportunities presented by agentic AI
• Business fluent English required, both written and spoken

The good stuff

Here are just some of the reasons why people choose to build their career at Scandit:

• We are certified as a “Great Place to Work” in 7 countries!
• Smart, people-first culture
• An attractive individual equity plan in a high growth company
• Flexible, office, hybrid or home working
• Innovation hackathons for all, not just the techies
• Global team outings
• Festive/end of year all company celebrations
• Your birthday off
• Learning and development opportunities
• Top notch tech pack to enable you to do your most productive work
• Brand new optimized-for-hybrid working HQ in Zurich as well as local offices in hotspots London, Tampere, Warsaw, Boston and Tokyo
• As well as specific benefits related to the …