Accounting & Controlling Lead

Accounting & Controlling

Location: Tallinn, Estonia   |   Reporting to: VP of Finance   |   Type: Full-time & Hybrid

About Yaga

Yaga is a fast-growing person-to-person marketplace for preloved fashion, connecting buyers and sellers across Europe, South Africa, and Kenya — and now expanding into new markets including Egypt, the UAE, and beyond. Founded in Estonia in 2017, Yaga has grown into a market-leading resale platform with over 2 million users, more than 6 million items sold, and over 12 million monthly visits. Our mission is to make person-to-person secondhand trading as easy and safe as possible — and to make preloved the number one choice for fashion.

Your Mission

You’ll be the financial backbone of Yaga’s day-to-day operations. As our Accounting & Controlling specialist, you’ll own the full accounting cycle across our international entities: from coordinating and auditing the work of external accountants to ensuring the integrity and accuracy of our monthly financial statements through rigorous reconciliation. But this is more than a back-office role. You’ll act as the FP&A business partner to the VP of Finance: delivering the driver analysis, variance explanations, and financial insights needed to inform strategic decisions, including potential re-forecasts. You’ll bring a controlling mindset to everything: building trust in the numbers, tightening processes, and actively leveraging AI and automation to replace repetitive manual work with reliable, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

Accounting Operations & ERP

• Own the full monthly close process across all Yaga entities (EE, SA, KE, and new markets), providing all required inputs to external accountants in each location and ensuring deadlines are met
• Audit the integrity and accuracy of the final monthly financial statements produced by external accountants, performing reconciliation tasks to validate completeness and correctness
• Prepare processes to report Consolidated financial statements under IFRS (intercompany eliminations, foreign currency translation, etc.)
• Manage and maintain the ERP and accounting systems as the primary back-end owner: data integrity, chart of accounts, system configuration, and ongoing optimization
• Review, approve, and ensure timely payment of supplier invoices across all entities
• Oversee customer payout processes; verifying accuracy and monitoring for fraud risk

Controlling & FP&A Business Partnering

• Prepare monthly management accounts (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) and internal reporting packs, ensuring data quality and timeliness
• Maintain and evolve the internal reporting tool; ensuring it reliably reflects the financial reality of the business
• Perform detailed budget vs. actuals analysis, identifying and explaining key variances and the drivers behind them to support the VP of Finance’s strategic decisions
• Provide the financial inputs and driver analysis needed to assess whether a re-forecast is warranted and what its key assumptions should be
• Lead the closing controlling review; the structured checkpoint that ensures numbers are accurate and trustworthy before they are shared with the rest of the team or leadership
• Support quarterly forecast cycles and annual financial reporting, including full audit preparation

Audit & Tax

• Manage the annual audit process end-to-end: auditor relationship, document preparation, timeline, and follow-through
• Ensure tax filings are accurate and on time across all jurisdictions, coordinating with local legal and tax advisors
• Handle required regulatory reporting (e.g. ECB, central bank submissions)

Payroll & HC Support

• Coordinate payroll data flow between the Operations Lead (HR) and external payroll providers across all entities
• Verify the accuracy of payroll inputs and employee cost records before processing
• Maintain headcount cost tracking and support the VP of Finance in HC budget planning

Process Automation & Documentation

• Proactively identify manual or error-prone processes on the inputs and closing sides and lead their automation; reducing risk while freeing up time for higher-value analysis
• Use AI tools as a daily collaborator for reconciliations, report drafting, variance analysis, and process documentation
• Own and maintain the internal Finance wiki (Confluence) so processes are documented, clear, and accessible to the whole team

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of hands-on accounting and controlling experience, fully or partially in a multi-entity or international environment
• Strong grounding in accounting standards (IFRS or Estonian GAAP), VAT, payroll, and multi-currency operations
• Proven ability to coordinate and audit the work of external accounting teams across multiple jurisdictions, with a sharp eye for data integrity and reconciliation
• Experience acting as a Controlling business partner; translating numbers into driver-level insights that inform decisions
• Hands-on ownership of ERP or accounting software (e.g. Merit, Xero, NetSuite, Odoo, or equivalent); not just as a user, but as the person who keeps the back-end clean and reliable
• A genuine interest in automation: you actively look for ways to remove manual steps from both the input and closing process
• Openness to and starting-level minimum experience with AI tools; you see them as force multipliers, not threats
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; Estonian is a plus
• Based in or willing to relocate to Tallinn, Estonia

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in a marketplace, fintech, or e-commerce company
• Exposure to audit management or multi-country tax compliance
• Familiarity with FP&A tools, financial modelling, or BI dashboards

What We Offer

• A high-ownership role in a lean, senior Finance team; your work directly shapes decisions at the company level
• Real international exposure across operations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
• A team that actively uses AI to eliminate friction; you’ll spend your time on work that matters
• A remote-friendly, trust-based working culture with genuine autonomy
• The chance to build and scale alongside Yaga as we expand into new markets
• Be part of a mission-driven company transforming the second-hand fashion space