Accounting Lead

About the Role at RobCo

RobCo is building the category of Autonomous Industrial Robotics and we're doing it fast. We believe that automating the ordinary frees humans to do the extraordinary, and we're building the end-to-end robotics infrastructure to make that possible - hardware, software, and AI in one stack that just works.

In this key role, you are a pillar of our Finance team and ensure financial precision, compliance and scalability. Your focus is not only on maintaining the status quo, but on helping to shape a highly efficient, automated and modern accounting landscape that keeps pace with our global growth and our international locations.

Your Responsibilities

• You are responsible for preparing monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements under HGB and ensure the reconciliation to IFRS and US GAAP for our CFO and investors.

• You professionally lead our accounting team (currently two colleagues and one external bookkeeping service provider) and are the first point of contact for accounting questions in day-to-day business.

• You are responsible for revenue recognition for our plant-engineering-related robotics projects, including the proper separation of advance payments under HGB as well as IFRS/US GAAP.

• You plan and support stocktakes, in particular the valuation of work in progress and capitalised internal services, and ensure reliable inventory valuation.

• You oversee ongoing financial accounting, from accounts receivable and accounts payable through fixed asset accounting to liquidity planning, and step in operationally where needed.

• You are the contact for tax advisers and auditors and are responsible for preparing and supporting the annual KPMG audit.

• You support the migration of our ERP system and the build-up of internal accounting, with the aim of handling processes fully in-house by 2027.

• You are responsible for intercompany management between RobCo GmbH and our US subsidiary, ensure consistent accounting across both locations and coordinate accounting with our US subsidiary.

• You work closely with Controlling, HR, Supply Chain/Operations and Management.

Your Profile

• You work independently and make decisions even where processes are not yet fully defined, rather than waiting for explicit instructions.

• You bring resilience and composure to an organisation that is restless and changing due to growth.

• You communicate openly and directly, including about errors or queries, and so fit the direct, entrepreneurial working style of our CFO and management.

• You openly acknowledge the limits of your expertise and independently find a solution rather than avoiding critical questions.

• You speak and write German and English with negotiating confidence (at least C1).

• You can explain complex accounting matters, such as the systematics of HGB accounting, clearly and verbally to our English-speaking CFO and investors.

• Completed further training as a certified Bilanzbuchhalter (IHK) with several years of demonstrable practical professional experience, not merely a course or theory-only qualification.

• Confidence in closing the general ledgers under HGB and sound knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP, including the ability to independently prepare reconciliations between HGB and US views.

• You are responsible for revenue recognition for our plant-engineering-related robotics projects, including the proper separation of advance payments under HGB as well as IFRS/US GAAP.

• Experience in carrying out and managing stocktakes (year-end and perpetual inventory) and inventory valuation, ideally including work in progress.

• Hands-on and practical, not only supervisory, experience in accounts payable and receivable; you can post day-to-day transactions yourself when the situation requires.

• Experience in intercompany accounting and in working with US subsidiaries is an advantage.

• Experience with common accounting software or ERP (e.g. DATEV, Odoo, Moss, Ramp) and openness to supporting an ERP system change.

• Experience in a manufacturing, technology-driven or fast-growing company is an advantage.

• Genuine player-coach mentality: enjoyment in getting hands-on with the detail yourself, as well as driving topics forward and developing the people in the team.

Why RobCo?

• Develop with us modular, software-defined robotics solutions that set new standards in automation.

• Help us build robots equipped with cutting-edge AI that perceive their environment, analyse data and make intelligent decisions in real time.

• As part of a very dynamic and fast-growing scale-up, you take on responsibility from day one, drive your own projects forward and see the direct impact of your work.

• Flat hierarchies, open communication and regular 360° feedback enable fast decisions and support your professional and personal development.

• A subsidised Wellpass membership (over 7,200 studios across Germany).

• Flexible working hours, a modern office and - depending on the function - the option to work from home.

• Regular team events - from relaxed beer & pizza evenings on the roof terrace to shared experiences on ski trips or at the Oktoberfest.

About RobCo

Founded in Munich in 2020, RobCo leads the transition toward fully Autonomous Industrial Robotics. Our mission is to deploy RobCo in every factory - solving the industrial labor shortage through end-to-end robotics that just works. Powered by Physical AI, our solutions combine a scalable modular hardware architecture with intelligent software that continuously learns and improves, requiring zero upfront investment through our Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) model.

We solve our customers' most pressing pain points - labor shortage, cost pressure, workplace safety, and national reshoring - across the full spectrum of Autonomous Industrial Robotics. In October 2026, RobCo reached unicorn status with a valuation exceeding one billion US dollars, with its valuation doubling in less than nine months. With $200M raised from investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Lingotto, Kindred, Cherry Ventures, and the European Tech Collective, 225+ people globally, and 3.5M+ operating hours in the field, we are deploying robots in factories across Europe and the United States - with our US operations headquartered in Austin, TX, and our Bay Area Lab in San Francisco.

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

At RobCo, applicants are selected regardless of ethnic origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation. All decisions throughout the recruitment process are based solely on applicants’ qualifications, skills, knowledge, and experience, as well as relevant business requirements.