About the Role
Camunda is looking for a Senior Director, Accounting & Controlling to lead and evolve our global Accounting function as we scale toward €500M ARR. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines solid technical accounting depth with a genuine drive to build, automate, and improve; a leader who approaches complexity with a “I can figure this out” and “bias for action” mindset rather than defaulting to caution.
You will be accountable for the full accounting engine: close, reporting, controls, and policy. But equally important is your ability to move at pace, partner credibly with Sales, RevOps, and the broader business, and exercise practical judgment that enables growth rather than slowing it down.
What You Will Do
- Lead the Global Accounting Function: Own the end-to-end accounting engine, including close, reporting, controls, and policy; ensure accurate, timely IFRS reporting and strong audit outcomes.
- Drive Practical Technical Accounting Judgment: Serve as the in-house expert on revenue recognition, commissions, equity, payroll, intercompany, FX, and treasury. Partner with Sales and RevOps to shape accounting treatment during deal design and commission structuring.
- Build and Develop a High-Performing Team: Hire, develop, and retain strong managers and individual contributors across a distributed organization, fostering a culture of ownership and accountability.
- Lead Automation and Systems Transformation: Champion automation across accounting workflows in partnership with Camunda’s Enterprise Agentic Automation Team; leverage AI-enabled tools to scale capacity.
- Manage External Workstreams: Lead auditors, tax advisors, and payroll providers; support major milestones including fundraising, M&A, or IPO readiness workstreams.
What You Bring
- Meaningful experience leading an Accounting or Controller function in a complex, multi-entity, distributed environment, ideally at a high-growth, recurring-revenue software company.
- Strong technical accounting judgment with heavy experience in revenue transactions, commissions, equity, payroll, and intercompany structures.
- Genuinely excited about automation and AI as tools for transforming how accounting teams operate.
- NetSuite experience is preferred; strong systems instincts are a priority.
- 6+ years of people leadership experience in an Accounting or Controller function.
- CPA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification strongly preferred.
- Available to start your workday at 7am ET to support effective collaboration across distributed global teams.