Finance Assistant (DATEV)

About Filestage

Filestage frees people from chaotic approval processes, making work more joyful and productive. From large enterprises to independent agencies, our review and approval platform helps teams share, discuss, and approve all their files, all in one place – including documents, designs, images, videos, and audio files.

We're a fully remote team with people working in home offices, co-working spaces, and coffee shops all over the world. Together, we're on a mission to create a seamless approval process that helps people deliver their best work.

We've raised our Series A and have over half a million users across 500+ companies, including AB InBev, LG, Havas, GroupM, and Capri Sun. So if you're looking for a fast-growing startup in a booming market, you've found it!

What you'll be working on as our Finance Assistant

We’re looking for a part-time Finance Assistant with DATEV skills to be part of our fantastic finance team and support our general bookkeeping and related processes of the company.

You will assist us in:

• Administrative Support (companywide)

• Payroll and Commission

• Billing, Invoicing, Dunning & Purchasing

• Month- /Year-End Reporting & Accounting

Life at Filestage

We believe people are more productive when they can choose their own schedule. So we’re proud to offer fully-remote roles that give you the perfect balance between work and life.

Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to at Filestage:

• Work from where you’re happiest and enjoy a flexible schedule. We’ve been fully remote from the start, giving you the opportunity to meet people all over the world and broaden your horizons.

  • For this role, we’re looking for someone based in Europe to make sure there’s a high time overlap with our team members, customers, and partners.

• Meet up in real life. We all travel together at least once a year (in normal times) at our team retreat to have fun and get to know each other.

• Enjoy a strong team culture. We’re a group of knowledge seekers, reflective thinkers, clear communicators, goal owners, problem solvers, and team players. These are the values we strive for to help us achieve our mission.

• Join a happy team. We’ve been rated five stars on Glassdoor by our lovely team. You can take a look at our reviews here.

• Create a workspace that suits you. You’ll get a €1,500 budget for hardware, as well €500 for home office to buy whatever you need to do your best work – including a computer, webcam, or standing desk.

• Get 36 days of holiday. Plenty of time for city breaks, summer escapes, and everything in between. You’ll also get a half day on your birthday to give you a chance to celebrate!

• Continue to grow and develop your career. We care about your development and want you to be able to learn new things! After six months in the company, you’ll get a budget to be able to use for personal development.

• Make your voice heard. We trust our team members to make the best decisions to achieve their goals, so you won’t have to put up with micromanagers here.

• Say goodbye to pointless meetings. We practice what we preach when it comes to productivity, so you can expect flat hierarchies, fast iterations, and no bullshit meetings.

Job requirements

What you'll bring to the role

You have 3+ years of experience working as a Finance Assistant or Accountant. Now you’re looking for a new and exciting challenge that has a huge (and positive) impact on the way people work.

Here are some of the things we’d like to see from you:

• You have completed a commercial apprenticeship.

• And/or you have completed commercial training or training as a tax clerk and further training as a "certified accountant" (IHK) or business studies with relevant focal points and IHK examinations

• You have experience in working with DATEV

• You are familiar with computer technologies and tools and are not afraid to learn new technologies that support your work.

• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and you’re hungry to learn. You roll your sleeves up to get things done. You strive to continuously improve, iterate, and integrate what you learn.

• You’re a strong communicator and have experience collaborating with a distributed team.

• You are fluent in German and English.