Accountant - Finance, Tax & Accounting
Posted on: December 22, 2025 | $23655-$52900 USD
Company Name: Remote.com | Application Deadline: Open Until
Team: Finance, Tax & Accounting | Division: Finance
Reports To: Manager Accounting & Controls | Schedule: Remote
Experience Level: Professional Fully Remote (Work from Anywhere)
Division: Product Engineering | Employment Type: Full-Time
Location: EMEA (Greece | Hungary | Romania | Latavia | Poland
About Remote
Remote is revolutionizing how modern organizations navigate one of their biggest challenges—managing global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams seamlessly, regardless of geographical boundaries or regulatory complexities.
With our core values at heart and a future-focused work culture, our global team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, from around the world. You can find Remoters working from six different continents (Antarctica left to go!), and all of our positions are fully remote, offering unprecedented flexibility and work-life integration.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their unique talents, experiences, and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated, and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and help define the future of work!
What This Job Can Offer You
Our Finance team at Remote covers everything from Tax, Accounting, and Treasury to Strategic Finance, Investor Relations, and Mergers & Acquisitions. We're focused on keeping our finances healthy and straightforward, which means managing risks effectively, making smart financial decisions, and guiding strategic choices with solid financial insights and analysis.
We're here to support Remote's rapid growth and make sure we're prepared for whatever comes next, in every part of the world we operate. Our job is to ensure that as we grow and evolve, our financial operations scale efficiently, our compliance remains impeccable, and our financial reporting provides the insights needed for strategic decision-making.
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as an Accountant, joining our Finance, Tax & Accounting team. You'll be working on the financial foundation that enables thousands of companies to employ talent worldwide, contributing directly to our mission of making global hiring accessible to organizations of all sizes.
Core Responsibilities
Daily Transaction Processing and Recording
You'll take responsibility for posting transactions accurately in SAP, our core financial system. This involves ensuring that all financial transactions are recorded properly, categorized correctly, and processed in a timely manner. Your attention to detail and understanding of accounting principles will be critical in maintaining the integrity of our financial data.
You'll work with various transaction types including vendor invoices, customer payments, journal entries, and intercompany transactions, ensuring each is handled according to established procedures and accounting standards.
Sub-Ledger Management and Reconciliation
You'll close and reconcile critical sub-ledgers including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Bank accounts, and Intercompany accounts. This responsibility requires systematic approaches to ensuring that subsidiary ledgers agree with general ledger control accounts, investigating and resolving discrepancies promptly.
Your reconciliation work provides assurance that our financial records are accurate and complete, forming the foundation for reliable financial reporting. You'll develop efficient reconciliation procedures, identify issues proactively, and implement corrective actions when discrepancies are discovered.
Multi-Country Payroll Recording and Reconciliation
You'll record and reconcile payroll for various countries, working with complex multi-jurisdictional payroll data. This involves understanding different payroll structures, tax treatments, and statutory requirements across multiple EMEA countries, ensuring accurate recording of salary expenses, tax withholdings, social security contributions, and other payroll-related items.
Your work in this area directly supports Remote's core business of enabling global employment, making accurate payroll accounting essential to both our internal operations and our credibility with clients.
Month-End and Year-End Close Support
You'll support comprehensive month-end and year-end close processes, working within tight timelines to ensure financial reporting deadlines are met. This includes performing monthly balance sheet reconciliations, supporting variance analysis preparation, and ensuring all accounting entries are completed accurately before close.
Your efficiency and organization during close periods will be crucial to providing timely financial information to management and external stakeholders. You'll work collaboratively with other finance team members to ensure smooth close processes.
Statutory Compliance and Regulatory Reporting
You'll ensure that your portfolio follows local statutory requirements across assigned jurisdictions. This includes preparing and reviewing VAT returns, compiling Statutory Financial Documents, supporting Corporate Income Tax (CIT) returns, and ensuring all other required filings are completed and submitted in accordance with local legislation and regulatory timelines.
Your compliance work protects Remote from regulatory risks while ensuring we meet our obligations in every market where we operate. You'll stay current with changing requirements and proactively address compliance obligations.
Financial Analysis and Project Support
You'll perform financial analysis and contribute to various projects as requested by management. This might include profitability analysis, cost optimization studies, system implementation projects, process improvement initiatives, or special financial investigations.
Your analytical contributions will provide insights that inform business decisions and drive continuous improvement in financial operations.
Statutory Close and Financial Statement Preparation
You'll provide support in statutory close procedures and financial statement preparation, ensuring compliance with Dutch GAAP and other applicable accounting standards. This includes preparing supporting schedules, reviewing financial statement disclosures, and ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial reports.
Your work contributes to transparent, reliable financial reporting that meets the needs of stakeholders including management, investors, auditors, and regulatory authorities.
What You Bring
Professional Qualifications and Education
You possess post-qualification accounting experience, demonstrating your commitment to the accounting profession and your mastery of technical accounting competencies. You hold a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a relevant field, providing the theoretical foundation for practical application.
Your educational background and professional experience combine to create a strong technical foundation for the responsibilities of this role.
Dutch GAAP Expertise
You have practical experience with Dutch Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), understanding the specific requirements, presentation formats, and disclosure requirements unique to Dutch accounting standards. This specialized knowledge is essential for ensuring compliance and producing accurate statutory financial statements.
Your Dutch GAAP expertise may have been developed through prior roles in Dutch organizations, working with Dutch subsidiaries, or specific training in Dutch accounting standards.
Financial Systems Proficiency
You have demonstrated experience using core finance systems, with exposure to SAP or similar enterprise resource planning systems being a significant bonus. You're comfortable navigating complex financial software, configuring system parameters, running reports, and troubleshooting system issues.
Your technical proficiency enables you to work efficiently, leverage system capabilities fully, and contribute to system optimization initiatives.
Technical Accounting Skills
You ensure compliance with GAAP principles in all your work, demonstrating technical accuracy and attention to detail in every transaction you process and every reconciliation you complete. You possess strong financial analysis skills, enabling you to interpret financial data, identify trends, and draw meaningful conclusions.
Your accuracy and attention to detail are unwavering, recognizing that small errors in accounting can have significant downstream consequences.
Communication Excellence
You possess strong communication skills, both written and verbal, enabling you to explain complex accounting concepts clearly to non-finance colleagues, document procedures comprehensively, and collaborate effectively with global team members across different time zones and cultures.
Your communication style is clear, concise, and professional, adapting to different audiences while maintaining consistency in messaging.
Time Management and Organization
You demonstrate excellent time management abilities and consistently meet constant deadlines, particularly critical during month-end and year-end close periods. You prioritize effectively, manage multiple concurrent responsibilities, and maintain quality even under time pressure.
Your organizational skills ensure that nothing falls through the cracks and that all deliverables are completed on schedule.
Adaptability and Independence
You have the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment where priorities can shift rapidly. You work effectively with minimal supervision, taking initiative, solving problems independently, and escalating issues appropriately when needed.
Your adaptability enables you to thrive in Remote's dynamic, rapidly evolving business environment.
Technical Proficiency
You're highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, where you can build complex spreadsheets, use advanced formulas, create pivot tables, and analyze large datasets efficiently. Your Excel skills are a daily asset in reconciliation work, analysis, and reporting.
Language Skills
You write and speak fluent English, Remote's standardized business language. Your English proficiency enables seamless communication with colleagues worldwide and ensures clarity in all written documentation.
Remote Work Readiness
While it's not required to have prior remote work experience, it's considered a significant plus. You're comfortable with asynchronous communication, self-directed work, and the discipline required to be productive in a fully remote environment.
Remote's Compensation Philosophy
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy ensures fair, unbiased compensation and equitable pay along with competitive benefits in all locations where we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide—here's some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while hiring globally.
The base salary range for this full-time position is between $23,655 USD to $52,900 USD. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. All compensation changes associated with internal moves are reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case-by-case basis.
Benefits and Perks
Our full benefits and perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits and perks are available to all Remoters:
- Work from anywhere - Choose your ideal work environment
- Flexible paid time off - Take the time you need to recharge
- Flexible working hours - We work asynchronously, so schedule around your life
- 16 weeks paid parental leave - Support for growing families
- Mental health support services - Prioritize your wellbeing
- Stock options - Share in Remote's success
- Learning budget - Invest in your professional development
- Home office budget & IT equipment - Set up your ideal workspace
- Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces - Connect with others when you choose
How You'll Plan Your Day (and Life)
We work async at Remote, which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt, you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important, and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, fitting work around your needs rather than the reverse.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
Application Process
We've designed our hiring process to be thorough yet respectful of your time:
- (Async) Profile review - We'll review your application materials
- Interview with recruiter - Get to know Remote and the role
- Interview with a future manager with a test - Demonstrate your technical capabilities
- Interview with Manager, Accounting - Deep dive into role fit
- Interview with Director, Accounting Controls - Leadership alignment discussion
- Bar Raiser Interview - Ensure we're raising the bar with every hire
- Prior employment verification check(s) - Standard background verification
- (Async) Offer - Welcome to Remote!
How to Apply
- Please fill out the application form and upload your CV in PDF format
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardized language we use at Remote
- If you don't have an up-to-date CV but you're still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply. As an equal employment opportunity employer, it's important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences, and this data helps us stay accountable.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status, and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have four Employee Resource Groups (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team.
During your interviews and beyond, we ask and encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.
AI and Authenticity
At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
Apply now and join Remote in building the future of global employment while enjoying the flexibility, autonomy, and purpose that comes with truly remote work!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What does "async work" mean at Remote?
Asynchronous work means you're not required to be online at the same time as your colleagues. You can plan your work schedule around your life, family commitments, and personal preferences rather than around meetings. Communication happens through written channels, documentation, and recorded videos, allowing you to contribute when it works best for you while maintaining productivity and collaboration.
Do I need to have prior remote work experience?
No, prior remote work experience is not required, though it's considered a plus. We provide support and guidance to help you succeed in our async, fully remote environment. What's most important is your ability to work independently, communicate effectively in writing, and manage your time well.
What is the actual salary for this position?
The salary range is $23,655 - $52,900 USD annually, with the actual compensation based on your location within EMEA, relevant experience, skills, and qualifications. We use geographic pay differentials to ensure competitive, fair compensation in each market while paying above local rates. During the interview process, we'll discuss the specific salary band for your location.
Which countries in EMEA can I work from?
This position is currently open to candidates located in Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, and Romania. You must have legal work authorization in one of these countries.
What accounting standards do I need to know?
Dutch GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) experience is required for this role. Familiarity with IFRS or other European accounting standards is beneficial but not mandatory. You should also understand general accounting principles, financial statement preparation, and statutory reporting requirements.
Is SAP experience mandatory?
While demonstrated experience with SAP or similar enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is highly preferred and considered a significant bonus, it's not strictly mandatory. However, you must have experience with core finance systems and be able to learn new software quickly. Training on our specific systems will be provided.
How should I prepare for the technical interview?
The technical interview will include a practical test assessing your accounting knowledge, attention to detail, and problem-solving abilities. Review Dutch GAAP principles, practice month-end close procedures, refresh your reconciliation skills, and be prepared to discuss your experience with financial systems. Specific guidance will be provided when scheduling this interview.
Remote is an equal opportunity employer committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams across the globe.
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