Director Accounting Tax and Treasury

About Shine

Shine is the financial copilot for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Founded by serial entrepreneurs Rico Andersen and Martin Hegelund, Shine is a leading European fintech unicorn on a mission to restore the joy of running a business, by ending wasted time on financial admin. Shine offers a connected solution for invoicing, accounting, payroll, business accounts, payments, and financing, meaning business owners can focus their energy on growing a healthy business, not held back by manual admin.
Part of something bigger
Today we're part of Cegid, a European leader in cloud software for finance and accounting. Together we're building Europe's leading financial copilot for small businesses and their accountants.
Shine already supports more than 400,000 small businesses. As part of Cegid, we now reach over one million small businesses and 15,000 accountants across Europe.
We're a multicultural team working from France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands, contributing to a wider European network that spans Spain, Portugal and Belgium.
Your hiring experience matters
Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine and Cegid should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.
If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

👀 Finance Department at Shine

Our team is structured around Accounting, Tax & Treasury, Sales Administration & Collections, Procurement, and Finance ERP & Systems, covering the full spectrum of financial operations, process governance and systems enablement across the Shine & SB/CPA European division. Distributed across multiple European countries, the team works as a single unit to deliver reliable execution, harmonised processes and scalable systems, securing the build-up and long-term performance of the new financial perimeter.

📋 Your Role as an Director Accounting Tax and Treasury

This is a newly created, high-impact role reporting directly to VP Accounting, Tax & Treasury.

Lead and ensure reliable daily financial operations, accounting, tax and treasury operations across all European entities of the Shine & SB/CPA division, while building scalable and standardised processes. This role covers the pan-European market.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Run core accounting operations across entities: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable accounting & cash application, and expense compliance.

• Coordinate monthly, quarterly and annual closings across all pan-European entities within the division (e.g., France, Germany, Nordics, Spain, and Portugal).

• Define, document and enforce harmonised accounting, tax and treasury processes, standards and calendars, focusing on streamlining and harmonizing all accounting principles.

• Ensure VAT and local tax compliance across Europe, in coordination with external advisors, including challenging tax professionals.

• Support the unified single ERP project, working with the Head of Finance, ERP to define business specifications for ERP evolutions, carve-out activities, and Finance transformation initiatives.

• Optimize and automate core finance processes, including the Order to Cash and Procure to Pay processes, through AI and digitalization.

• Manage a global team across multiple European countries, including 5 direct reports (Heads of Accounting for France, Germany, Nordics, ILA, and a Head of Treasury) and a total organization of around 22 people.

• Drive harmonisation of practices between the different entities of the Shine environment.

📍 Job located in France, Paris or Lyon with possibility of two remote working days per week

Success Metrics

Success will be measured by the ability to achieve the following:

• Unify the system of accounting and the different accounting principles across entities.

• Ensure "right first time" financial productions that meet all deadlines and adhere to compliance requirements

• People management - Lead, motivate and develop the accountancy org.

🔎 About you

• Fluent French and English are essential.

• Must have knowledge of French GAAP (General Accounting Principle)

• Strong background in operational accounting within a multi-entity and international environment.

• Solid knowledge of European accounting standards, VAT, and treasury operations.

• Proven experience managing distributed teams during transformation phases.

• A highly hands-on, execution-oriented leader with a professional focus that is more operational than strategic.

• Experience working with tax advisors and the ability to challenge them.

• Experience in brand management.

💚 Our recruitment process

1️⃣ A 45' first call with Ryan Conaghan (Talent Acquisition Specialist) to get to know you better and share more about Shine.

2️⃣ A 60' interview with Hiring Manager focused more on Technical Accounting/Operations/Tax/Compliance

3️⃣ A 60' interview with CFO - leadership interview