Senior Accountant - IFRS

As a Senior Accountant, you will:

• Prepare and post journal entries, perform balance sheet reconciliations, and drive high standards for period close improving quality and speed.

• Own the preparation of audit schedules, coordinate responses to requests, and drive the closure of audit questions to ensure a predictable, well-documented process.

• Deep dive into monthly results, flagging risks, unusual transactions, and key movements while providing decision-ready insights for finance leadership.

• Identify accounting risks, implement practical mitigations, and strengthen internal controls to ensure our processes are scalable and accurate.

• Actively leverage AI tools to improve efficiency and consistency, identifying opportunities to standardise and simplify recurring accounting work.

You’ll thrive in this role if you have:

• 6+ years of experience with a strong ability to apply IFRS in real-world scenarios.

• Comfort working with consolidated results, analysing variances, and exercising complex accounting estimates and judgments.

• Proven experience managing audits end-to-end or acting as the primary finance contact for external auditors.

• A track record (or clear potential) of using AI and automation to improve accounting outcomes and efficiency.

• The ability to operate effectively in a fast-changing environment with an "ownership mindset" and excellent judgment.

• Strong ability to translate complex accounting issues into scalable process improvements and clear insights for stakeholders.

• You want genuine agency at group level rather than executing instructions handed down by a central team

• You'd rather design a process than inherit one, and you want to see your own work implemented

• You like variety. This is a different topic most days, not a fixed monthly cycle

• You want a settled, mature environment where the process is set and the day looks the same. That's the clearest reason this role doesn't work out for people

• You need stable priorities. It's volatile here. Several topics run at once, progress depends on other people, and priorities can change overnight

• You want to stay inside accounting. A large part of the job is working with teams outside Finance and with external advisors in each country

In your first 6 - 12 months at Pleo, you’ll:

• Lead the Audit Readiness initiative to drive impact in our year-end execution and documentation standards.

• Collaborate with the Finance team to embed AI-forward ways of working, automating manual workflows to increase team capacity.

• Grow your skills in process improvements and financial analysis, taking on new challenges as the company continues to scale across our legal entity markets.

• We’re committed to helping you develop your career, whether that means taking on bigger leadership projects, mastering the intersection of AI and Finance, or deepening your expertise in complex consolidated reporting.

A closing conversation, used where it's helpful for both sides.

Transparency is important to us so we also wanted to share some insights about what we’re looking for in applications to ensure you can set yourself up for success! Last time we hired this role, we received a lot of applications but can only interview a finite number of people. Some of the key reasons why previous candidates didn’t make it past the application screening stage include:

• CV writing and content: we receive a lot of CVs, and many of them are AI-generated. We love seeing people leverage AI—it’s a big focus for us internally too—but without human intervention, these CVs can sometimes become generic and fail to show a candidate in the best light. What we're really looking for is the specific details of real impact that only you know from your previous experience. A top tip from us is to use the “Achieved X, as measured by Y, by doing Z” formula (credit: Laszlo Bock, ~2014) to give a really clear picture of what you’ve worked on. A final note: including links to your previous companies' websites is a huge help and allows us to truly understand your background!

• Application care: every single application we receive is reviewed by a human (yes, hundreds of them) because we believe that candidates' efforts should be matched by an equal level of human care. This means that we expect a similar level of attention put into your application. Read and answer the application questions carefully, they make a huge difference in our decision-making process.

• Profile to role fit: highlight most important aspects of the role, points that might get misunderstood, any specific industry requirements etc.