Get to know us

At eyeo, we transform the internet into a trusted, sustainable and accessible place where users regain control over their experience, content creators and publishers are rewarded for their content, and advertisers and consumers can connect on mutually agreed terms.

eyeo’s market-leading ad-filtering technology powers products like Adblock Plus and AdBlock as well as technical integrations for popular browsers. Our solutions empower users to control their online experience and privacy, while providing monetization for content creators, publishers and advertisers.

In combining our partnerships and our subsidiary products, our technology reaches 350 million monthly active users worldwide.

eyeo is a global employer of over 300 people working remotely in more than 30 countries (predominantly North America and Europe) with our HQ in Berlin and small offices in Cologne, Toronto and NYC (planned soon).

How we work

eyeo has colleagues based all over the world. We love our diversity and take great pride in our company culture. We practice an independent, remote workstyle with work distributed in cross-functional matrix teams that span predominantly EST and CET time zones. If working remotely isn’t for you, we also have a large office in Berlin and soon in NYC that you can choose to work from. We meet twice a year as a team and host once a year an all-company retreat, our Summer Week. By enabling remote work and in-person sessions, we have built a culture that provides a unique dynamic of flexibility and belonging.

What you'll do

At eyeo, you will have the opportunity to support and lead the accounting team, encompassing transactional accounting, external financial reporting, accounting and financial governance policy, and technical accounting. You will play a critical role in managing German accounting, fundamental business process flows and establishing and maintaining a comprehensive environment of controls to mitigate risk and ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles or international financial reporting rules. You will collaborate with consolidation and tax functions in book closes, quarterly financial package preparation and financial audits. This role provides the opportunity for partnerships with various internal and external teams.

Your day-to-day activities:

Manage the day-to-day relationships with outsourced or in-house accounting professionals and proactively identify new opportunities to streamline accounting processes and strengthen financial controls
Ensure financial data is recorded in accordance with company policies and related GAAP
Oversee the month-end, quarter-end and year-end financial close cycles, including the global consolidation and reporting of all accounting-related results necessary for external and management reporting
Build deep functional and technical excellence within the team in accounting and control competencies
Build and document process flows while pursuing process improvement opportunities in the fundamentals of order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, order-to-record and hire-to-retire end-to-end process flows
Provide support to the Corporate Controller with audits, special inquiries, projects and ad-hoc analysis; for German entities play a lead role in managing financial audits
Protect assets by establishing, monitoring and enforcing internal controls
Manage banking transactions and nurture relationships with banking partners
Lead compliance with local statutory reporting requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; filing financial reports; and advising management on needed actions
Collaborate with Tax, Financial Planning and Analysis, Investor Relations, and other teams; ensure that accurate accounting data be provided in a timely manner
Provide insightful business requirements to the ERP project team; be actively involved in system implementation and improvement
Ad hoc projects as needed

What you bring to the table

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance or foreign degree equivalent
CPA or equivalent, Bilanzbuchhalter or Internationaler Bilanzbuchhalter
At least 8 years’ experience in accounting and financial reporting
At least 3 years’ experience in a leadership position
Knowledge of and experience with German GAAP and IFRS
Business fluency in German and English
Strong collaboration and teamwork skills
Strong analytical skills, accuracy and attention to detail

It’s awesome if you have

US GAAP and SEC experience
Hands-on experience with NetSuite or Oracle
Experience in working with global teams in a technology company

What we offer

Work remotely or from one of our offices —we trust you to find what works best for you
Full package of benefits (health insurance, choice of hardware, paid vacation days, professional development and relocation budget, sabbatical leave, etc.)
Offsite team days and the annual summer company retreat

* Some benefits vary subject to the hiring location

Helpful links

Monetization:https://eyeo.com/blog/acceptable-ads-evolution-feature-ecosystem
eyeo in the news:https://eyeo.com/press/
Blog updates: https://eyeo.com/blog/
Life at eyeo: https://eyeo.com/careers/working-at-eyeo
The team at eyeo: https://eyeo.com/team
Open Source repository: https://github.com/adblockplus, https://gitlab.com/eyeo

Privacy Notice

eyeo is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief. When you apply, you’ll be automatically forwarded to our recruitment platform operated by an external service provider called Greenhouse (seated in the US). Greenhouse collects some information on its website, such as anonymous usage statistics, by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technology. For more information, please refer to Greenhouse’s Privacy Policy. All documents and information provided by you are stored with Greenhouse. In order to ensure an adequate level of data protection, eyeo and Greenhouse have entered into the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (“processors”) - Commission Decision C(2010)593. You can request a copy of this by contacting us at privacy[at]eyeo.com. If you don’t want your data forwarded to Greenhouse, please do not apply. For detailed and further information, please refer to our Privacy Policy at https://eyeo.com/en/privacy.