Head of Transactional Accounting

Role Overview

• Lead the group’s procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes, ensuring timely, accurate, controlled, and consistent execution across all entities.
• Manage and develop the AP Accountant and O2C Accountant, including setting expectations, reviewing performance, providing feedback, and ensuring accountability for assigned responsibilities.
• Define and maintain clear process ownership, handoffs, escalation rules, checklists, and documentation across AP and O2C processes.
• Act as the main escalation point for complex AP/O2C issues, recurring process exceptions, and cross-functional blockers.
• Own end-to-end O2C process governance, including sales order review, billing, credit memos, client master data, receivables management, credit control, collections, and related controls.
• Ensure O2C processing is governed by signed agreements, internal procedures, billing rules, and accounting requirements.
• Ensure effective control over data flows between Salesforce, NetSuite, contracts, billing records, and customer balances, including timely identification and escalation of discrepancies.
• Ensure O2C processes provide complete and accurate inputs for revenue recognition, deferred revenue, AR reconciliations, withholding tax treatment, credit loss assessment, tax reporting, audit, and month-end close.
• Own end-to-end AP process governance, including vendor management, invoice processing, reimbursements, business trip expenses, advance invoices, credit memos, payments, and related controls.
• Ensure AP transaction processing is governed by clear policies, approval requirements, accounting dimensions, tax treatment, and supporting documentation standards.
• Oversee systems (e.g. Payhawk, Navan) process governance, including approval workflows, master data quality, overdue approval escalation, export issue resolution, and recurring process bottlenecks.
• Ensure AP-related month-end close readiness, including completeness of vendor bills, unsubmitted transactions, accrual inputs, advance invoice matching, open AP items, and expense cut-off.
• Review and challenge transactional accounting outputs to identify errors, control gaps, aging issues, unreconciled items, and recurring process failures before they impact close, reporting, tax, audit, or stakeholders.
• Coordinate with Assistant Controller, GL Accountant, FP&A, Tax, Payroll, Sales, Customer Success, Legal, external service providers, and auditors to resolve transactional accounting issues.
• Maintain and improve AP/O2C SOPs, billing guidelines, credit control procedures, vendor management procedures, payment process documentation, checklists, and stakeholder guidance.
• Own AP/O2C process improvement roadmap, including KPI monitoring, recurring issue reduction, automation opportunities, system workflow improvements, and clearer stakeholder self-service guidance.
• Own review and escalation of complex AP/O2C matters, including non-standard billing, credit memos, write-offs, withholding tax, payment matching differences, expense cut-off, AP accrual completeness, deferred revenue inputs, revenue-related reconciliations, and credit loss indicators.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or a related field.
• 7+ years of relevant accounting experience in an international, multi-entity, SaaS, technology, or high-volume operational environment.
• Strong hands-on experience with NetSuite is required; experience with integrated systems such as Salesforce, Payhawk, Deel, Avalara, Navan, TM1, or similar tools is an advantage.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end procure-to-pay and order-to-cash processes, including how transactional accounting impacts close, revenue, accruals, AR/AP balances, tax, audit, and financial reporting.
• Proven ability to lead people, own processes, set expectations, review performance, provide feedback, and ensure accountability.
• Strong practical understanding of internal controls, approval workflows, billing and payment controls, master data governance, exception handling, and escalation processes.
• Ability to review, challenge, and improve transactional accounting data and processes before issues impact reporting, compliance, stakeholders, or customer/vendor experience.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with ability to enforce process discipline across Sales, Customer Success, Legal, FP&A, People / Payroll, external providers, auditors, and finance leadership.
• High ownership, structured thinking, strong communication skills, and ability to operate independently in a high-complexity environment.

Benefits

• Flex benefit package, customizing perks to match your unique style.
• Enjoy unlimited remote work or join the vibrant offices in Vilnius, Kaunas, or Barcelona.
• Flexible working hours, harmonizing your personal and professional life.
• Half-day Summer Fridays.
• Full training and onboarding program for a seamless start.
• Exclusive work only with international markets.
• Considerable & steadily increasing salary, recognizing and rewarding your dedication.
• Frequent in-office and after-hours activities with team members.
• Participation in international training programs.
• Internal transparency with company results and salary system, promoting a culture of trust and collaboration.
• Additional paid vacation days, including birthdays, volunteering, and other occasions.