Finance Consultant (Copenhagen)

Balance (YC W26); København; On-site; DKK 750,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Lunch and dinner at the office

Learning budget

Regular trips to our London office

Small team where ideas ship quickly

Early-employee impact

Job summary

Balance is an AI-native accounting firm with offices in Copenhagen and London. As a Finance Consultant, you own a portfolio of clients from end to end, acting as their dedicated accountant and the first contact when something looks off.

You’ll work alongside our AI, not as a data entry taskmaster. You’ll shape the product by feeding frontline insights to engineers, spotting edge cases, and helping define what great AI-enabled accounting looks like.

Qualifications

• Auditing, outsourcing or client accounting experience is required.
• Enjoy working with clients and explaining numbers clearly.
• Spot mis-booked entries and ensure corrections are implemented.
• Ambitious and eager to grow in a fast-moving AI-enabled firm.
• Into AI and familiar with AI tools or keen to learn.
• Fluent in Danish and English (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

• Own your clients' books end-to-end and sign off on agent book entries.
• Close month-end for your portfolio efficiently.
• Handle what AI can't yet—VAT, management reporting, year-end prep.
• Be a trusted advisor to founders about hiring, margins, and VAT implications.
• Collaborate with engineers to turn field learnings into product improvements.

Skills

Audit experience

Client accounting

English proficiency

Danish language

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related

Tools

e-conomic

Xero

Business Central

Job description

Finance Consultant - Copenhagen

Balance • Full-time • Onsite in Copenhagen • Offices in Copenhagen and London

Most accountants spend their days categorising transactions and chasing receipts. At Balance, that part is done by AI. What's left is the part of the job that actually needs you: judgement, client relationships and making sure the numbers are right. And you get to shape the AI that does the rest.

About Balance

Balance is an AI-native accounting firm with offices in Copenhagen and London. Our AI agents reconcile, categorise and match documents against the ledger all month long. Our accountants review every entry before it's booked, close the month and act as the person each client turns to for advice. Clients get real-time, audit-ready books at a flat monthly price.

We're backed by Y Combinator, and Google Ventures led our $4.8M seed round. We're around 20 people across our two offices, we serve 150+ companies in Denmark and the UK, and we're growing fast. As we like to put it: the work is automated, the responsibility is not.

The role

As a Finance Consultant, you own a portfolio of clients from end to end: e-commerce brands, software startups, hospitality and professional services firms. You're their dedicated accountant and the first person they message when something looks off.

You'll work alongside our AI, not underneath a pile of data entry. Think part controller, part trusted advisor, part product builder.

You'll shape the product, not just use it

This is the part of the job you won't find at a traditional accounting firm. Our engineers sit one Slack message away, and you're the person who knows what good accounting actually looks like.

• When Bea, our AI, books something wrong, you don't just fix it. You explain why, and the next version gets it right for every client.
• You'll spot the edge cases first: the odd marketplace payout, the VAT rule nobody automated, the client whose setup breaks the pattern. Those become the next things we build.
• Your feedback ships in days, not quarters. You'll see your own fixes running across hundreds of companies' books.

Every Finance Consultant here is helping define what an AI-native accounting firm looks like. That's an unusual thing to have on your CV.

What you'll do

• Own your clients' books. Review and sign off on what our agents book, and be the quality bar before anything reaches the ledger.
• Close the month. Run month-end close for your portfolio, and get it done in days, not weeks.
• Handle what AI can't (yet). VAT, management reporting, year-end prep and the odd one-off that doesn't fit any template.
• Be the trusted advisor. Answer the questions founders actually ask, like whether they can afford to hire, why margins dropped, or what happens with VAT if they start selling in Germany.
• Make the product better. Work directly with our engineers to turn what you see on the ground into product improvements.

You'll do well here if

• You've spent a few years in audit, outsourcing or client accounting, at an accounting firm, an outsourcing house or similar. You know bookkeeping and month-end close from the inside.
• You enjoy clients, not just spreadsheets. You'd rather explain the numbers than hide behind them.
• You've spot a mis-booked entry at a glance and can't leave it alone until it's fixed.
• You're ambitious and hungry to grow. You've worked hard seasons before and want your effort to go into something that’s building, not just maintaining.
• You're into AI. Maybe you’ve already automated parts of your own work or built something with AI tools, and we'd love to hear about it. If you're simply very curious and eager to learn, that counts too.
• You speak and write Danish and English fluently.

Bonus points

HD(R) or cand.merc.aud (finished or in progress), experience with e-conomic, Xero or Business Central, startup or SaaS clients, a side project of your own.

What we offer

• Equity, so you own a piece of what you're building
• Lunch and dinner at the office
• A learning budget
• Regular trips to our London office
• A small team where your ideas ship next week, not next year
• Early-employee impact: you'll help shape how we work as the finance team grows

The process

Quick and transparent, so you know what to expect:

• Discovery conversation (15-30 min, online) with Helene from CALiBR, our talent partner
• Call with Emil Munk, co-founder (30 min, online)
• Onsite interview (60 min) at our Copenhagen office, with our CEO and our Founding Finance Consultant
• Work trial on real problems, so you can see us and we can see you