Vice President of Accounting

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

Lead the accounting function and build a public-ready finance organisation:

• Own the end-to-end accounting organisation: controlling and reporting, accounting and tax, technical accounting and payroll.
• Drive readiness across SOX, PCAOB and SEC reporting standards, and US GAAP adoption – building the compliance posture a scaled business needs.
• Reduce month-end close from day 8–10 to business day 5.
• Lead the transition to Coupa and a PO-first procurement model, going live September 2026.
• Build bench strength in US GAAP and SOX – currently one specialist in each area.
• Bring AI-native thinking to transform manual processes across the function.
• Act as a strategic partner to the leadership team and accounting org: Help the Prague team answer difficult questions about where accounting is going and what their roles look like as the business scales.
• Manage upwards as well as downwards – influencing leadership behaviour is a real part of this job.
• Work cross-functionally; accounting silos are not what this business needs right now.

About the role:

Mews is at a significant stage of its growth – building the financial infrastructure, reporting standards and compliance programmes that a scaled, global business needs. The accounting function is central to that, and it needs a leader who has been here before.

Responsibilities:

Drive readiness across SOX, PCAOB and SEC reporting standards, and US GAAP adoption – building the compliance posture a scaled business needs.

Reduce month-end close from day 8–10 to business day 5.

Lead the transition to Coupa and a PO-first procurement model, going live September 2026.

Build bench strength in US GAAP and SOX – currently one specialist in each area.

Bring AI-native thinking to transform manual processes across the function.

Act as a strategic partner to the leadership team and accounting org: Help the Prague team answer difficult questions about where accounting is going and what their roles look like as the business scales.

Manage upwards as well as downwards – influencing leadership behaviour is a real part of this job.

Work cross-functionally; accounting silos are not what this business needs right now.

Qualifications:

Deep technical accounting expertise, public company experience, and the judgement to build for scale:

• You have worked in or led accounting at a US-listed public company – you understand what SEC, PCAOB and SOX compliance looks like in practice.
• Strong US GAAP knowledge is non-negotiable; dual US GAAP and IFRS is ideal.
• Hands-on SOX compliance experience, including designing or owning a SOX programme.
• A track record of transforming accounting teams – automating, restructuring, raising the bar.
• Experience with compact, multi-entity accounting functions; familiarity with complex consolidation.
• AI fluency, with a genuine appetite for re-thinking how accounting works: AI has changed how you work, not just how fast; you see where it can replace manual processes, not just assist with them.
• You can point to specific automation or workflow improvements you've driven in a finance context.
• You are comfortable stress-testing your own assumptions about what accounting needs to look like – and helping a team do the same.
• Familiarity with modern finance tooling; exposure to Business Central, OneStream or Workiva is a plus.

Skills:

A clear and credible communicator who leads through expertise, not hierarchy:

• Humility, cross-functional instinct, and willingness to work with others are as important as technical depth.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity while maintaining clarity and momentum for the team.

Benefits:

Unlimited paid holiday (yes, really)

Participation in our company share program

Paid parental leave (6 months fully paid for primary caregivers, 2 months for secondary, available after one year of service)

An annual Learning budget of €300 (and more for high performers) to support your development

Monthly "EDGE" time to Explore, Develop, Grow, and Elevate yourself

A work from anywhere policy with flexibility to work abroad for a few weeks each year

Relocation options, available after one year

Flexible, hybrid working options

A home office setup budget to make your workspace your own and a monthly work-from-home allowance

Claude tokens, so you can automate workflows and build smarter, more efficient ways of working

Pay:

$270,000—$350,000 USD

€130.000—€180.000 EUR

£150,000—£210,000 GBP

2 000 000 Kč—3 000 000 Kč CZK