Head of Financial Accounting & Balance Sheet | SACHGEBIETSLEITUNG FINANZBUCHHALTUNG & BILANZIERUNG (M/W/D)

Stadt Laichingen

Laichingen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
Published Jul 28, 2025
Full-time
Permanent

Job Summary

This leadership role involves strategically and operationally managing the financial accounting department, overseeing a team of five, and driving their professional development. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing financial strategies, managing financial processes, and ensuring compliance with legal and internal regulations. Key tasks include steering year-end processes, preparing annual financial statements and balance sheets in close collaboration with tax advisors, ensuring correct tax treatment of business transactions, and preparing VAT pre-registrations. Additionally, the role involves maintaining asset accounting, identifying optimization potentials in accounting and payment processes, and serving as commercial managing director for a municipal inter-communal industrial and commercial area. This is an attractive opportunity for an experienced professional seeking a challenging and impactful role within a public sector environment.

Required Skills

Education

Degree in Business Administration (BWL), degree in higher administrative service, or completed commercial vocational training with additional qualification as a Certified Accountant (Bilanzbuchhalter/in)

Experience

  • Several years of professional experience in financial accounting and annual financial statement preparation
  • Experience in the public sector (ideally)
  • Experience in managing teams

Languages

Not specified

Additional

  • Not specified