Junior Accounting Manager (f/m/d) Food Tech Startup

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Planet A Foods is for people who want to change the future of food.

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At Planet A Foods, you'll join a bold, highly committed, international team of scientists, engineers, operators, and industry experts united by one goal: creating real, measurable planetary impact.

You will work closely with our CFO and Lead FP&A, gaining direct exposure to finance operations in a fast‑moving food tech environment and growing into a reliable pillar of the team.

Responsibilities • Support monthly and annual financial closures, learning the end‑to‑end close process with exposure to consolidation workflows • Own and continuously optimize our end‑to‑end Order‑to‑Cash (O2C) and Purchase‑to‑Pay (P2P) processes • Run full‑cycle bookkeeping (AP/AR/GL) on our current stack (DATEV Unternehmen Online and Spendesk) • Participate in ERP system projects from an accounting perspective, shadowing implementation work and gradually owning tasks • Streamline VAT and tax reporting through integrated system logic and digital filing interfaces, replacing manual processes with automated compliance • Design and manage payment workflows to optimize cash flow, enhance customer experience, and maintain operational bank relations • Support the preparation of audit documentation and liaise with internal stakeholders as needed Qualifications • Education in Economics, Finance, Accounting or a related field combined with at least 1–2 years of relevant experience, ideally in Startups, Scaleups or Consulting • Exposure to the implementation of an accounting or ERP system is a strong plus • Basic knowledge of German accounting principles (HGB/German GAAP) and DATEV familiarity • Analytical, tech‑savvy and genuinely numbers‑driven: you find patterns in data as instinctively as you keep books tidy, with real enthusiasm for AI workflows and process optimization • Reliable, detail‑oriented and able to work independently • Full professional fluency in German and English Benefits • Full autonomy to build, experiment, and shape how a trillion‑dollar industry operates • A very competitive compensation and opportunity to grow • Collaborate with a passionate international team working at the edge of what's possible • Work in one of the rare food startups that truly scales and operates a 24/7 4‑shift production system • A position where you can shape how a trillion‑dollar business communicates • Stuff that other startups do as well (30 days vacation, tasty lunches, snacks, drinks, vouchers, gym…) • PLUS: Chocolate.

We are reinventing how the world produces food ingredients, replacing scarce and unsustainable raw materials with scalable, clean, and delicious alternatives. Our first product, a cocoa‑free chocolate, is just the beginning. Our ambition is to build a new global champion in food ingredients.

This role offers real accounting ownership from day one, not just filing and data entry. As a Junior Accounting Manager , you will build your accounting foundation hands‑on, supporting our full bookkeeping cycle while contributing to the automation and process improvement work that keeps Planet A Foods running efficiently.

You'll start with a structured onboarding boot camp, designed to fast‑track your fundamentals before you take on full ownership of your workstreams: so you're set up to grow fast, not thrown in unprepared. We're looking for analytical, numbers‑driven minds who get genuinely curious about why a number looks the way it does.