Financial Accountant – Balingen, Germany (m/w/d) – SchildDirect GmbH

SchildDirect GmbH; Balingen; On-site; EUR 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

SchildDirect GmbH in Balingen is seeking a hands-on Financial Accountant to join our team. You will handle day-to-day accounting, administrative tasks and coordinate with our external finance partner.

Reporting to the manager in Sweden, you will align local activities with group processes, improve routines, and ensure timely documentation across our Balingen site. This role also encompasses payroll coordination and cross-border collaboration with the international team.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of relevant accounting/finance administration experience.
• Hands-on bookkeeping, invoicing, reconciliations and recurring accounting processes.

Responsibilities

• Managing daily accounting and financial administration including invoicing, AP/AR, bank transactions and expenses.
• Overseeing financial reporting and KPI follow-up, cost monitoring and month-/year-end closings.
• Coordinating payroll and employee administration, time reporting, leave, onboarding and offboarding.

Skills

Bookkeeping

Invoices & reconciliations

Excel

English proficiency

Independent work

Tools

Accounting software

Excel

Job description

Do you enjoy bringing structure to financial processes and taking ownership of day-to-day accounting and administration?

We are looking for a hands-on and structured Financial Accountant to join our team in Balingen.

Our German operation is an important part of an international group, with local production in Balingen and sales across Europe. We work with an external German finance and accounting partner and are looking for someone to coordinate the day-to-day work internally, ensure information is delivered on time and follow up on outsourced processes.

About the role

This is a broad operational finance role combining ongoing accounting, financial follow-up and selected employee administration. You will report to your manager in Sweden and work closely with the local team in Balingen, our external finance partner and the group finance team in Sweden, while helping improve routines and processes.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing daily accounting and financial administration, including bookkeeping, customer and supplier invoicing, accounts payable and receivable, bank transactions, payments, reconciliations and company expenses.
• Overseeing financial reporting and follow-up, including KPI reporting, cost monitoring, inventory and purchasing-related accounting, intercompany transactions and month-end and year-end closing activities.
• Coordinating payroll and employee administration, including time reporting, vacation and sick leave, employee documentation, onboarding and offboarding, and company car administration.
• Acting as the main contact for our external finance and administration partner, ensuring smooth coordination of responsibilities, timely documentation and follow-up, while continuously improving accounting and administrative processes.

The precise division of responsibilities will be coordinated with our external partner. What matters most is that you are comfortable taking ownership, keeping activities on track and improving how the work gets done.

Who are we looking for?

We believe you have:

• Approximately 3-5 years of relevant experience in accounting, finance administration or a similar broad operational finance role
• Practical experience with bookkeeping, invoicing, reconciliations and recurring accounting processes
• Good knowledge of accounting systems and Excel
• Professional working proficiency in English
• The ability to work independently, manage details and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders

Experience working with an outsourced payroll or finance partner is an advantage. Experience in a production business or international group is also valuable.

As a person

You are structured, reliable and detail-oriented. You enjoy taking initiative, following through on recurring tasks and finding ways to make processes simpler and more scalable. You are comfortable collaborating with colleagues in Germany and Sweden and with external partners.

You do not need to have all the answers from day one. We value someone who takes responsibility, learns the business and helps develop our financial processes over time.

About us

Our Balingen operation combines local production with an international business, serving customers across several European markets.

The company is part of the Swedish SkyTech Group, which develops and operates businesses with a strong focus on efficient production, digitalisation and making traditionally complex industries simpler and more accessible.

You will be based at our office and production site in Balingen and work closely with local management and the group finance team in Sweden.

Interested?

If you are looking for a varied finance role where you can combine hands-on accounting and administration with the opportunity to create better structures and processes, we would be happy to hear from you.