Accounting Automation Engineer

Role overview

This remote role focuses on replacing manual accounting work across a multi-entity, multi-country enterprise using agentic AI and modern AI coding tools. The position blends deep accounting expertise with hands-on engineering to automate the repeatable parts of AP, AR, reconciliation, and month-end close. Human judgment stays in the loop only where it actually adds value.

Responsibilities

- Build automations for accounts payable, including invoice capture and data extraction, vendor matching, duplicate detection, approval routing, and payment run preparation - Streamline accounts receivable through automated invoicing, cash application, aging reports, dunning, and credit note handling including bad debt support - Implement bank, card, intercompany, and balance sheet reconciliations with exception reporting that surfaces only items needing human review - Drive month-end close through checklist tracking, recurring journals, depreciation runs, FX revaluation, trial balance checks, flux analysis, and management packs - Support general operations including expense reimbursement checks, chart of accounts hygiene, audit evidence collection, and data pipelines between ERP systems, banks, and payment platforms

Requirements

- Strong knowledge of IFRS or US GAAP, demonstrated through ACCA, ACA, CPA, or equivalent, or several years of hands-on accounting experience - Real, daily experience with AI coding tools, ideally Claude Code, backed by solid engineering fundamentals - Hands-on automation building using Python or JavaScript/TypeScript - Practical experience with core accounting processes including AP, AR, bank reconciliation, and month-end close - Comfort with APIs, MCP servers, CSV/Excel data, basic SQL, and scheduling local scripts via cron, task schedulers, or CI pipelines - Care for accuracy, controls, and audit trails

Nice to have

- Multi-entity or multi-currency environments, including intercompany and consolidation work - Reconciling payment processor statements across multiple jurisdictions - Shared cost services with complex expense splits and automated invoice generation - ERP API experience with any vendor - Building AI agents and agentic workflows, including tool use and MCP servers - VAT/GST and e-invoicing rules across several jurisdictions - Git, testing, and basic cloud deployment - Prior finance transformation or accounting operations team experience - Additional languages for non-English markets

Benefits and work setup

- Fully remote position, with applicants expected to be within approximately plus or minus four hours of Central European Time - Unlimited paid time off and paid national holidays - Company-provided MacBook - Independent contractor agreement structure - Interview process: recruiter screening (40 minutes), technical interview (90 minutes), final interview (60 minutes)