Head of Accounting and Tax (Remote Europe or Hybrid Berlin/London)

The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination.

n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact.

Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we’ve:

• Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders

• Earned 188+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects

• Backed by top investors, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation

That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out - whether you’re technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register.

We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.

🎯 Your main goal will be to build and lead a scalable, AI-first accounting, tax oversight, and controls function that enables n8n’s next stage of sustainable, international growth.

To do so, you’ll own the accounting foundations that make Finance faster, more reliable, and ready to scale across entities and markets:

• Own end-to-end statutory accounting across AP, AR, GL, fixed assets, accruals, deferrals, and payroll posting verification.

• Drive a reliable sub-5-day monthly close, with clear policies, documentation, and a robust close calendar.

• Prepare monthly and annual financials, coordinate statutory filings and audits, and continuously improve reporting quality.

• Lead multi-entity statutory reporting, group consolidation, and the definition of consistent accounting policies across jurisdictions.

• Oversee cross-border complexity across VAT, transfer pricing, and intercompany processes, knowing when to involve and challenge external advisors.

• Prepare the accounting, tax oversight, and control environment to support future capital markets transactions, including a potential IPO.

• Lead the insourcing of accounting from our external bookkeeper, capturing processes, SLAs, controls, and ownership.

• Establish a crisp RACI, close calendar, and control framework aligned with audit readiness and multi-entity operations.

• Oversee payments, bank reconciliations, expense approvals, and short- to mid-term cash visibility, including 13-week forecasting.

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop an accounting team while defining the future org design for Core Accounting, Treasury, and Tax.

• Evaluate and implement a next-generation ERP and finance automation stack that can support n8n’s scale.

• Partner with RevOps, People, Legal, Data, Engineering, and GTM teams on topics such as revenue recognition and quote-to-cash.

• 📚 Accounting background: You come from statutory accounting, financial reporting, close, filings, and audit — not primarily FP&A, management reporting, business partnering, or German Controlling.

• 📈 Scaling experience: You have lived through rapid finance scaling, ideally from Series B toward IPO readiness, and understand what breaks as a finance function grows.

• 🎓 Qualified accountant: You hold an ACA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent qualification, with HGB expertise alongside IFRS or US GAAP as a strong differentiator.

• 🌍 Multi-entity international experience: You have owned statutory reporting across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, including VAT, transfer pricing, and group consolidation complexity.

• 🧾 Tax literacy: You can hold your own with external tax advisors, understand the commercial implications of tax decisions, and know when to challenge or escalate.

• 🤖 AI fluency: You have used AI to materially change how you work and have a clear point of view on what an AI-native finance function should look like at scale.

• 👥 Team leadership: You have built or managed an accounting team, hiring, developing, and leading people with high standards and clear upward career progression.

• 📍 Europe-based: You are based in Europe and comfortable working in a remote-first, distributed environment.

• 🚀 Pre-IPO or PE-backed experience: You have been inside a company preparing for a liquidity event, IPO readiness, or operating in a PE-backed environment.

• 🔎 Big 4 background: You started your career at EY, Deloitte, PwC, or KPMG before moving in-house, ideally into a tech or SaaS environment.

• 🛠️ ERP implementation: You have led or played a major role in an ERP implementation or significant system change, such as NetSuite, SAP, or equivalent.

• ⚡ Close transformation: You have materially reduced month-end close cycle time while improving quality, ownership, and controls.

• 🧱 Controls and audit readiness: You have designed SOX, audit, or control environments that support scale and reporting reliability.

• 🧩 Product curiosity: You are genuinely curious about n8n and may already have built a workflow or automation before applying.

Why join us?

At n8n, your work won’t disappear into a spreadsheet or a filing deadline. You’ll build the accounting, tax oversight, treasury, and controls foundation that helps us scale with confidence as our team, customer base, and international footprint grow. You’ll have a direct mandate to insource key processes, modernize our finance stack, improve reporting speed and accuracy, and shape an AI-native accounting function for one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups.

You’ll join a remote-first team with strong European roots, high autonomy, and a builder culture where your decisions will directly influence how Finance operates at scale. This is a highly visible Head-level role with the opportunity to grow into broader Finance leadership as n8n continues to expand.

Sound like a challenge you’re excited to take on?

Apply now — and help us build the financial foundations for the future of automation.

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n (https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35).

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.

• Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.

• Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.

• Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:

  • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.

  • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.

• Health & wellness 🩺 –

  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

  • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans with coverage for individuals and families—plus a no-cost premium HDHP option with a pre-seeded HSA—along with dental and vision coverage.

• Future planning 💰 –

  • Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*

  • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.

• Financial security 🛡️ –

  • Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*

  • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance to support you and your loved ones.

• Career growth 📈 – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.

• A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!

• Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.

• Giving back 🤝 – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.

• AI enablement 🤖 – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.

• Transparency 🙏 – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.

* Country-specific details are provided in your contract.