Financial Accountant

Job Title: Financial Accountant

Company: Solen Software Group

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Employment Type: Full-time

About Solen Software Group

Solen Software Group is an investment and operating company that acquires and operates proven software businesses with significant growth potential across a variety of vertical markets, enabling each to become a market leader in its niche. Solen's portfolio spans Human Resource Technology, Fleet Telematics, Asset Management, E-Health, Document Management, and other innovative software solutions. Solen is backed by a group of advisors and investors who have built software businesses of material scale (10-100M in ARR) and have advised many more. We are at the beginning of a decades-long journey, and every decision we make reflects that long time horizon.

About The Role

At Solen, we believe exceptional talent drives exceptional outcomes. As our Financial Accountant, you will play a critical role in ensuring accurate, timely, and audit-ready financial operations across assigned portfolio entities.

You will own the full general ledger and monthly close process, support billing and commission workflows, and partner cross-functionally with Sales, HR, and Operations to maintain alignment between operational and financial data. This role is ideal for a highly detail-oriented accounting professional who thrives in structured execution and is eager to grow within a broader finance function.

The successful candidate will work from our Lisbon office in a hybrid capacity.

Key Responsibilities

Firm Leadership

• Contribute to disciplined financial operations that support Solen’s long-term growth strategy.
• Uphold high accounting standards and operational accuracy across assigned entities.
• Promote accountability, follow-through, and process rigour within the finance function.

Role-Specific Responsibilities

• Own the full general ledger for assigned entities.
• Prepare and post journal entries, accruals, and month-end adjustments.
• Execute monthly close activities by D+3, including balance sheet reconciliations.
• Reconcile cost of goods sold by date and vendor, ensuring alignment with vendor invoices and revenue timing.
• Manage and support customer billing and accounts receivable processes.
• Reconcile Statements of Work tracking against professional services billed and timesheets.
• Support CRM updates to ensure alignment between sales data and financial records.
• Perform monthly AP data pulls, such as AP automation tools, and provide reporting to Group Finance.
• Support sales tax reporting and filings.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation across financial and operational processes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with Sales, HR, Operations, and Group Finance to ensure data integrity and alignment.
• Support structured processes that connect CRM systems, billing workflows, and accounting records.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and strengthen internal controls.

Key Requirements

• Formal accounting education.
• 2-3 years of accounting experience.
• Proven experience owning a full general ledger and month-end close.
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP/IFRS.
• Experience with complex ERP systems: Sage Intacct, Oracle, SAP…
• Highly detail-oriented and deadline-driven.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally without heavy supervision.

Nice to Have

• SaaS accounting experience.
• Sales tax filing experience.
• Exposure to multi-entity or private equity-backed environments.
• Experience working with CRM systems and AP/AR automation tools.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate:

• Owns work end-to-end and follow through consistently.
• Is organized, detail-focused, and disciplined with deadlines.
• Is comfortable collaborating across functions.
• Brings curiosity, a process-improvement mindset, and ambition to grow within a broader finance role.

Who Thrives Here

We succeed when our people bring structure, accountability, and curiosity to their work. If you are meticulous, proactive, and motivated to grow within a fast-paced, acquisition-driven environment, you will thrive at Solen.

Solen-isms (How We Operate)

• Ownership Mindset: We own the mission. We don't wait to be told. We lead, fix, and build as if it were ours. When problems arise, we run toward them, not away.
• Benchmark to Best: We seek out excellence. We measure ourselves against the best and adapt quickly, always looking for the edge that moves us forward.
• Openly Self-Critical: Leaders go first: they surface their misses early, ask for direct feedback, and turn “game film” into better decisions and better systems.
• Disagree & Commit: Leaders disagree openly and constructively, regardless of title or tenure, because truth is how we avoid bureaucracy and benchmark to best.
• Figureitoutiveness:

  Embracing challenges, fostering growth, and taking initiative, leaders thrive on hard work and high failure tolerance.

• Mutual Elevation: Committed to growth, elevating teams, developing future leaders, and removing barriers to mastery and joy.
• Learn-it-alls:

  Learn-it-alls, not know-it-alls, embracing failure as part of growth and progress.

• Pioneering:

  Pioneering driven by opportunity, using first principles thinking and unbound by tradition or rules.

• Will to Win: Leaders relentlessly pursue potential, reject mediocrity, and get what they tolerate.
• Dialectical:

  We learn through conversation. We ask, listen, question, and evolve - valuing disagreement as a tool for alignment and deeper understanding.

• Frugality:

  Achieving more with less, focusing on quality, long-term value, and company-wide responsibility.

• Candor:

  We communicate with integrity, transparency, and respect in all conversations.

• Kaizen:

  Kaizen is continuous improvement as a way of life. Leaders make hundreds of small upgrades that compound, turning lessons into standards and standards into durable systems.

Recruitment Disclaimer

Solen Software Group will never request payment, banking information, or other sensitive personal or financial details during any stage of the recruitment process. All official communication will come from a verified @solensoftwaregroup.com email address. Any outreach outside these standards should be disregarded and reported through our official channels.

We thank all applicants for their interest in joining Solen Software Group. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.