Your mission with us
As a Senior Accountant, you are responsible for ensuring financial accuracy and efficiency within the organization. Your tasks include meticulous bookkeeping as well as the preparation of audits. By maintaining precise records, monitoring intercompany transactions, and ensuring compliance with tax regulations, you contribute to financial stability. Close collaboration with the finance team and your involvement in special projects strengthen team spirit and drive continuous process improvements. In this way, you are a vital pillar of the company’s financial health, supporting our growth and enabling well-informed strategic decisions through accurate financial management.
What you can expect from us
- Accounting Expertise: Full responsibility for the accounting of our legal entities with a strong focus on accurate record-keeping.
- Preparation of Financial Statements (HGB): Timely and compliant preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with the German Commercial Code (HGB), ensuring transparent and reliable financial reporting.
- Special Projects: Active participation in special projects in close collaboration with the finance team to achieve key milestones.
- Intercompany Coordination: Management and oversight of the intercompany reconciliation process, ensuring that internal transactions comply with our transfer pricing guidelines.
- Account Reconciliation: Regular review of key accounts such as payroll, personnel-related costs, payables, and receivables to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial data.
- Invoicing and Revenue Recognition: Responsibility for project-related invoicing and the proper recognition and deferral of revenues.
- VAT Returns: Preparation of VAT filings and other tax reports, including reconciliations, in full compliance with tax regulations.
- Fixed Assets and Depreciation Management: Maintenance of up-to-date fixed asset registers and depreciation schedules to ensure an accurate reflection of company assets.
- Audit Support: Provision of all required data and documentation for auditors, ensuring thorough preparation and a smooth audit process.
- Team Leadership: Disciplinary and professional leadership of a small team.
- Ad-hoc Accounting Tasks: Handling a variety of ad-hoc accounting assignments with utmost diligence, precision, and compliance with legal requirements.
Your profile
- Successfully completed degree in Finance or a related field, ideally complemented by certification as a Certified Accountant (“Bilanzbuchhalter”) or a comparable qualification
- At least 5 years of professional experience in accounting
- Proactive mindset: enthusiasm for continuous learning and the ability to implement new solutions to improve processes in a dynamic environment
- Solid knowledge of accounting under HGB; IFRS knowledge is a plus
- Proficiency with common accounting software (experience with Business Central is an advantage, but not a requirement)
- Strong analytical skills with a structured and independent way of working
- High level of accuracy, reliability, and discretion
- Strong team player with excellent communication skills
- Good command of both German and English, spoken and written
Why us?
- Highly motivated team: Be part of our international team of experts who want to shape the future of healthcare together and improve patient care globally
- Working in cross-functional teams: Our innovative way of working with flat hierarchies allows you to work autonomously and take on end-to-end responsibility. Our organisational structure creates the basis for efficient internal processes that are needed to make a unique contribution to the development of medical products
- Personal development: Through our feedback-orientated culture and our focus on individual development opportunities, we want to continuously promote your personal growth
- Attractive entry-level package: Competitive remuneration and the provision of MacBooks and ergonomic office workstations are just as much a matter for us as flexible working hours and home office options
- Employee benefits: We support your work-life balance and promote your health by subsidizing the Egym Wellpass and Urban Sports Club. You also benefit from our contribution to the Deutschland-Ticket and the company pension scheme
- Relaxed working atmosphere: We take care of your well-being in our office in the heart of Hamburg - both physically and with great offers such as corporate benefits, regular sports activities and company events
Contact information
Ms. Jeanine Metaschk
About us
Sidekick Health is a global pioneer in digital health and therapeutics and is committed to transforming patient-centred care through innovative solutions. Founded by two physicians, the company offers a diverse range of digital health programmes covering a variety of therapeutic areas from oncology, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders and inflammatory diseases.
In 2023 and 2024, Sidekick Health acquired aidhere GmbH (now Sidekick Health Germany GmbH) and PINK gegen Brustkrebs GmbH as its third business unit—alongside partnerships with world-renowned pharmaceutical companies and the largest health insurer in the United States—for the development and distribution of prescription digital therapeutics. Sidekick Health Germany is a market leader in the field of digital health applications (DiGA) and has already generated over 100,000 prescriptions with its two digital therapeutics: zanadio, a digital multimodal obesity therapy, and PINK! Coach, a digital health application for breast cancer patients.
Sidekick is headquartered in Reykjavik and Hamburg and employs over 250 people worldwide.
