[Remote] Senior Director, Accounting & Controlling

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Camunda is the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, enabling organizations to coordinate AI agents, people, and systems across complex, end-to-end business processes. They are seeking a Senior Director, Accounting & Controlling to lead and evolve their global Accounting function as they scale toward €500M ARR, focusing on building, automating, and improving the accounting processes while partnering with various teams across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end accounting engine, including close, reporting, controls, and policy
• Ensure accurate, timely IFRS reporting and strong audit outcomes
• Build a scalable operating model across people, process, systems, and global footprint; own global payroll and treasury operations and controls
• Serve as the in-house expert on complex accounting topics: revenue recognition, commissions, equity, payroll, intercompany, FX, treasury, and policy interpretation
• Partner with Sales and RevOps to shape accounting treatment during deal design, commission structuring, pricing decisions, and global entity strategy
• Translate accounting requirements into workable business solutions that balance growth, margin, and appropriate risk
• Hire, develop, and retain strong managers and individual contributors across a distributed organization
• Create clear ownership, accountability, and succession depth across the team
• Bring empathy and intentionality to how you lead—building a team culture where people grow and do their best work
• Champion and drive automation across accounting workflows in close partnership with Camunda’s Enterprise Agentic Automation Team
• Leverage AI-enabled tools to reduce manual effort, improve insight quality, and scale accounting capacity without scaling headcount proportionally
• Mature the control environment progressively toward SOX readiness, with an eye toward future capital events
• Lead auditors, tax advisors, payroll providers, and key external partners
• Support major milestones including fundraising, M&A, or IPO readiness workstreams

Skills

• 6+ years of people leadership experience in an Accounting or Controller function
• CPA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification strongly preferred
• Enterprise SaaS or software industry experience
• Prior experience in remote-first or highly distributed organizations
• Big 4 background, IPO experience, or M&A exposure are valued but not required
• Meaningful experience leading an Accounting or Controller function in a complex, multi-entity, distributed environment—ideally at a high-growth, recurring-revenue software company of comparable scale and complexity to Camunda
• Proven ability to lead through others while staying close enough to the work to exercise sound technical judgment
• A track record of building teams with real depth, not just coverage—people who grow under your leadership
• Strong technical accounting judgment with heavy experience in revenue transactions, commissions, equity, payroll, and intercompany structures
• Meaningful exposure to fundraising rounds, M&A activity, and managing through external audits
• IFRS experience is a plus but not a hard requirement—what matters most is strong accounting fundamentals and the ability to learn quickly
• Familiarity with global payroll and multi-jurisdiction operations
• Genuinely excited about automation and AI as tools for transforming how accounting teams operate—not just familiar with them in theory
• Experience using modern tools to modernize workflows, reduce manual effort, and surface better insights
• An 'I can figure it out' and 'bias for action' orientation—someone who leans into ambiguity rather than waiting for perfect conditions
• Practical judgment that allows you to be a real partner to Sales and the business—calibrating risk appropriately without defaulting to no
• Comfortable with transformation: ideally, you've been part of a meaningful operational change and know what it takes to bring people along
• Available to start your workday at 7am ET to support effective collaboration across distributed global teams; comfortable with asynch-first, Slack-first communication
• NetSuite experience is preferred; strong systems instincts matter more than any specific platform

Benefits

• Equity (where applicable) through our Virtual Stock Option Plan (VSOP)
• Remote & Flexible: Work from anywhere with the setup that suits you, home office budget, co-working space support, and flexible time off to recharge when you need it.
• In Person Connection: We invest in meaningful face time through our Annual Kickoff (Vienna in 2025, Madrid in 2026!), team offsites, and Camundi Connection Budgets, including contributing to meetups while travelling,, and local gatherings with fellow Camundi.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access locally tailored healthcare, Modern Health for global mental wellbeing, and our Live Well Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA), a flexible, global benefit that puts you in control of your whole life, not just work, from: staying active, to caring for family, exploring personal passions, meaningful experiences, and investing in your financial wellbeing. The Live Well program launches in 2026 and scales to €1,000 annually from 2027.
• Financial Security: Retirement and pension plans (often with company contributions), plus life and disability insurance where relevant.
• Professional Growth: Up to $/€/£1,000 per year for self-driven learning: courses, certifications, books, you decide!

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