Director Group Accounting, Audit & Tax (m/f/d)

Numa; Berlin; In loco; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Numa, a tech-enabled hospitality operator, seeks a senior group accounting and audit professional to lead consolidation, statutory reporting and tax coordination across multiple jurisdictions. You will manage the outsourced partner network, drive audit readiness, and build an in-house assurance function to sustain growing complexity.

The role requires deep expertise in multi-entity financial statements, coordination across markets, and leadership to guide a cross-functional team.

Competenze

• 8+ years of relevant experience including an audit background
• Experience consolidating multi-entity, multi-country group
• Experience leading statutory reporting and audits across jurisdictions
• Strong English and willingness to travel across markets
• Experience managing outsourced accounting providers or shared service centers

Mansioni

• Own group close: monthly, quarterly and annual cycle across all entities
• Own consolidated financial statements and group-level judgements
• Lead group audit end-to-end: planning, materiality, PBC, positions
• Coordinate group tax: corporate tax, VAT, indirect taxes across jurisdictions
• Governance of providers/advisors: ensure quality, deadlines, scope
• Lead the Senior Manager Internal Audit and build assurance capability
• Build and maintain an integrated accounting manual and controls framework
• Collaborate with FP&A, Legal and treasury for consistent numbers and processes

Conoscenze

Audit leadership

Consolidation

Statutory reporting

International tax coordination

Outsourced accounting management

People leadership

Multi-entity coordination

ERP fluency

Fluent English

Willingness to travel

Strumenti

ERP systems

Descrizione del lavoro

Hey there! We’re Numa, a forward-thinking hospitality brand redefining how people discover cities. We create spaces where simplicity meets innovation, offering thoughtfully designed rooms, studios, and apartments in the heart of Europe’s most vibrant neighbourhoods.

We’re not just transforming the guest experience—we’re revolutionizing the hospitality industry from the inside out. Our cutting-edge technology streamlines operations, delivering unparalleled value with no hidden fees—just real, quality experiences.

At Numa, we believe that travel should be curious and authentic, and we bring those same values to our work culture. As part of our team, you’ll experience a dynamic and supportive environment where creativity thrives, and your contributions make a real impact. We’re committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where every voice is valued, and different perspectives fuel our innovation.

Role overview

Numa is a tech-enabled hospitality operator running roughly 150 active properties across multiple European markets and several brands, with two young business lines in Franchise and M&A. Behind that sits a genuinely complex financial structure: a large number of legal entities, spread across countries, cities and tax jurisdictions, each with its own statutory, audit and filing obligations — and each feeding one consolidated set of group numbers.

Our day-to-day accounting and controlling is delivered by a dedicated outsourced partner. Tax and statutory work is supported by local advisors in each market, coordinated with our in‑house tax function. Numa is scaling faster than any of those structures were originally designed for.

This role is the group-level integrator.

It is not the deepest technical specialist in any single domain: we have a strong in‑house tax function for tax substance, and local advisors for local specifics. What this role must do is understand audit and tax well enough to lead them — to challenge a position, to spot the risk before the auditor does, to know when an advisor is wrong, and to hold a group-wide process together across a dozen moving parts and several time zones of stakeholders.

The role leads a growing team and, over time, builds out Numa’s internal audit and assurance capability — the function that keeps quality high across our outsourced accounting model.

Key responsibilities

Group close and consolidation

• Own the group close: the monthly, quarterly and annual cycle across all entities, delivered to a fixed calendar that management, the board and our lenders can rely on
• Own the consolidated financial statements, including consolidation logic, intercompany elimination, purchase accounting for acquisitions, and the group-level judgements behind them Ensure the group view and the local views reconcile — with a documented bridge from local statutory accounts to group in every jurisdiction
• Drive close timeliness and quality down through the outsourced partner, the regional accountants and the advisors, rather than absorbing their delays at group level

Statutory reporting and audit

• Own the annual statutory financial statements for every Numa entity across all jurisdictions: scope, timeline, preparer, reviewer, filing deadline and evidence — one integrated plan rather than a dozen local scrambles
• Lead the group audit end to end: planning, materiality discussion, PBC management, technical positions, auditor relationship and issue resolution
• Agree material judgements with the auditor early — lease and IFRS 16 treatment across our Fixed, Variable, Hybrid and HMA structures, revenue recognition by channel, capitalisation, impairment, going concern — and document them before year-end, not during it
• Own closure of audit findings and management letter points across the group, tracked to completion Raise Numa’s audit readiness from an annual effort to a continuous state

Tax coordination at group level

• Partner closely with the in‑house tax function: this role does not replace tax expertise, it makes tax execution work across the group
• Own the group-level compliance map: every entity, every jurisdiction, every obligation — corporate income tax, VAT and indirect taxes, city and tourist tax, payroll tax, transfer pricing documentation and local filings — with owners and deadlines visible in one place
• Ensure statutory accounts and tax positions reconcile, and that the accounting record supports the tax filings it feeds
• Coordinate the accounting and tax workstreams for structural change: new markets, new entities, new lease and franchise structures, acquisitions and restructurings — early enough to influence them
• Manage tax audits and authority enquiries operationally, together with the tax function and local advisors

Provider, advisor and stakeholder governance

• Act as Numa’s senior counterpart to our outsourced accounting and controlling partner: quality standards, delivery expectations, escalation, and a working relationship that is cooperative but unambiguous about what good looks like
• Manage the network of local accounting, audit and tax advisors: scope, fees, quality and deadlines — and consolidate where fragmentation is costing us more than it delivers
• Give the partner and the advisors the business context they need to book and report what actually happened commercially

Standards, controls and internal audit

• Lead the Senior Manager Internal Audit (Group Accounting) and build out the assurance capability around that role as the portfolio grows
• Own the group accounting manual as the binding reference for how material transactions are treated everywhere, and sign off the technical positions in it
• Own the internal control framework for accounting and reporting: reconciliation standards, balance-sheet substantiation, month-end checklists, and a genuine segregation of duties between Numa and the outsourced partner
• Run a findings and remediation pipeline that gives the CFO an honest, current picture of accounting and tax risk — and closes it

Leadership

• Lead, develop and grow the team: tax accounting and compliance, audit, regional accounting, coordination and internal audit
• Build the assurance function deliberately — define what capability Numa needs in‑house versus what stays with the partner and the advisors, and hire against it
• Create clarity in a structure with many external dependencies: who owns what, by when, to what standard
• Act as the CFO’s technical deputy on accounting, audit and tax matters with auditors, lenders, advisors and the board

Cross-functional

• Work with FP&A so that actuals, forecast and reporting rest on the same defined numbers — Support Corporate Finance and Treasury with reliable, audit-proof data for lender reporting, covenant calculations and financing processes
• Support M&A and Franchise with accounting and tax structuring input, due diligence and post-deal integration of the finance record
• Work with Legal on entity governance: incorporations, liquidations, filings and corporate housekeeping across the group

What success looks like

First 90 days

• A complete, current map of the group: every entity, its statutory and tax obligations, deadlines, responsible party and current status — the single view we do not have in one place today A clear-eyed assessment of where our reporting is reliable and where it is not, shared honestly with the CFO
• The team stabilised after the handover, with responsibilities and interfaces clarified A plan for the next audit cycle that starts before year-end rather than after it

First 12 months

• A group close delivered reliably to calendar, with quality that survives review All statutory accounts filed on time across all jurisdictions, with no late filings and no surprises An audit run on a prepared basis, with no significant findings and prior-year points closed A documented group accounting manual in active use by the outsourced partner and the regional teams
• An internal audit and assurance function that is demonstrably lifting the quality of what the partner delivers

How the role is measured

• Group close timeliness and the number of post-close adjustments
• Statutory filing compliance: on-time rate across all entities and jurisdictions, and any penalties incurred
• Audit outcome: findings raised, findings closed, and how much of the audit was prepared in advance Tax compliance completeness across the group and the outcome of any authority enquiries Error and rework rate in the accounting record, and the trend in it
• Advisor and provider cost against delivered quality
• Team stability, capability growth and successful build-out of the assurance function

Your profile

We are looking for a group-level operator with real technical credibility — someone who has held a complex, multi-jurisdiction reporting landscape together before and knows that the difficulty lies in the coordination, not only in the technique.

• 8+ years of relevant experience, including an audit background (Big 4 or comparable) and subsequent in‑house group accounting, audit or reporting leadership
• Proven ownership of consolidation and group financial statements in a multi-entity, multi-country group
• Hands-on experience running statutory reporting and audit across many jurisdictions in parallel — the operational discipline of a group audit plan is central to this role
• A strong working command of international tax — corporate tax, VAT and indirect taxes, transfer pricing mechanics — sufficient to coordinate, challenge and integrate, without needing to be the deepest tax specialist in the room
• Demonstrated experience managing outsourced accounting providers or shared service centres, and a network of external advisors, to a defined quality standard
• People leadership experience: leading a small distributed finance team and building capability, not only managing throughput
• The coordination instinct this role lives on: comfortable holding twenty deadlines across twelve entities and six advisors in one plan, and chasing them without becoming a bottleneck Credibility with auditors, advisors and authorities, and the composure to hold a position under pressure
• ERP fluency and the ability to interrogate data directly rather than requesting a report Fluent English (our working language) and willingness to travel across our markets and to our accounting partner

Nice to have

• Hospitality, real estate, retail or another multi-site, asset-heavy operating environment
• IFRS 16 and lease accounting depth across varied lease structures
• German (HGB), Dutch and/or UK GAAP knowledge