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# Director, Accounting & Tax at Scandit

- **Company:** Scandit
- **Location:** Warsaw, Poland
- **Posted:** 2026-07-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://www.scandit.com/careers/job-description/?gh_jid=8098465

## Job description

Job Title: Director, Accounting & Tax

Location: Poland

Imagine the what. Build the how.

Scandit gives people superpowers. Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows and provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. Join us, as we continue to expand, grow and innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.

## Overview

Are you a seasoned accounting leader who combines deep technical expertise with a talent for building teams, working hands-on and scaling processes? We're looking for a Director, Accounting & Tax to take ownership of our global accounting operations, tax and treasury, and to build a finance engine that can support Scandit's next phase of growth.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Group Controlling, you will lead our General Accounting, Accounts Payable and Tax & Treasury functions, and act as deputy across the wider Controlling organization. You'll manage and develop a multidisciplinary team, own the integrity of our books, and partner closely with FP&A, Revenue & Order-to-Cash, external auditors and advisors. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who wants to shape how a fast-growing, international company runs its accounting.

## Your opportunity

- Own the month-end, quarter-end and year-end close, including multi-currency consolidation and intercompany accounting ensuring a timely, accurate and well-controlled financial close across all entities
- Lead, mentor and develop the Accounting and Accounts Payable teams, raising the bar on technical skills, ownership and career growth
- Own group tax compliance, including corporate income tax, VAT and transfer pricing operations, working closely with external advisors across jurisdictions
- Oversee day-to-day treasury operations, including cash management, FX exposure and cash-flow forecasting
- Act as deputy to the Senior Director Group Controlling, stepping in on group controlling and governance matters as needed
- Ensure accurate and timely accounts payable and vendor management, with robust controls throughout the procure-to-pay cycle
- Develop, document and scale accounting policies, processes and internal controls to keep pace with the company's growth
- Perform technical accounting research (IFRS, US GAAP and/or Swiss GAAP FER) and translate conclusions into accounting positions, memos and day-to-day practice
- Lead the annual statutory and ad hoc audits, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements in all relevant jurisdictions
- Drive continuous improvement of our ERP and finance systems, automating manual processes and improving data quality
- Partner cross-functionally to deliver clean, reliable financials and actionable insight to senior leadership
- Take a leading role in projects, such as system implementations and establishment-and integration of new legal entities

Who we look for

- 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting, consolidation and tax, including several years leading and developing teams. Experience working in external audit is a plus.
- A recognized professional qualification (e.g. CPA, ACCA or equivalent)
- Strong technical accounting knowledge (IFRS, US GAAP, and/or Swiss GAAP FER) in a multi-entity, international environment
- Solid tax expertise across corporate tax, transfer pricing, VAT and other indirect taxes, ideally with international exposure
- Experience owning or overseeing treasury and cash management
- A track record of scaling accounting operations and strengthening internal controls in a high-growth company, ideally SaaS or B2B technology
- Hands-on experience with NetSuite (or a comparable ERP system) and other tools such as accounting transformation platforms, P2P transformation platforms etc.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, comfortable partnering with leadership and external auditors and advisors
- A proactive, process-oriented leader with a continuous improvement mindset, open to embracing the opportunities presented by agentic AI
- Business fluent English required, both written and spoken

The good stuff

Here are just some of the reasons why people choose to build their career at Scandit:

- We are certified as a “Great Place to Work” in 7 countries!
- Smart, people-first culture
- An attractive individual equity plan in a high growth company
- Flexible, office, hybrid or home working
- Innovation hackathons for all, not just the techies
- Global team outings
- Festive/end of year all company celebrations
- Your birthday off
- Learning and development opportunities
- Top notch tech pack to enable you to do your most productive work
- Brand new optimized-for-hybrid working HQ in Zurich as well as local offices in hotspots London, Tampere, Warsaw, Boston and Tokyo
- As well as specific benefits related to the location you are joining

You could be the difference

At Scandit we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be a safe space for all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability or length of time spent unemployed.

Imagine the What. Build the How.

## #LI-MC1

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## About Scandit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Scandit provides a Smart Data Capture platform powered by vision AI that enables enterprises to capture and analyze barcode, ID, and label data from any smart device, turning physical-world data into real-time business decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland (Global HQ: Hardturmstrasse 18, 8005 Zurich)
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Three researchers from MIT, ETH Zurich, and IBM Research (individual names not publicly listed on the company site)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise Software / Smart Data Capture / Computer Vision
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large enterprises in retail, logistics, healthcare, air travel, and post/parcel sectors
- **Mission or purpose**: "Turn camera input into decision-making" — enabling workers and customers to blend physical and digital worlds with unmatched speed, accuracy, and intelligence.

## Products & Services
- **Smart Data Capture SDK & Frameworks**: Software development kits that add barcode, text, or ID scanning to any iOS or Android app in under 5 minutes. Handles 80bn scans annually across low light, damage, distance, and glare conditions. Includes AR guidance and intent detection.
- **Scandit Express (turnkey app)**: Pre-built mobile application for rapid deployment of scanning workflows.
- **Shelf Intelligence & Execution**: AI-powered planogram and price compliance, expiry management & markdowns, and stock detection to boost on-shelf availability to over 95%.
- **Intelligent In-store Picking**: Increases fulfillment capacity by up to 4.6% without additional headcount, optimizing cost per order and service levels using existing labor hours.
- **ID Scanning & Validation**: Fast, accurate, and secure ID scanning and validation processed on-device for maximum privacy. ISO 27001 certified.
- **Scandit Agent Skills**: Brings 15 years of barcode, label, and ID scanning expertise into coding agents for custom integrations and pre-built components.
- **Retail Insights by Vision AI**: Turns visual store data into real-time inventory visibility and prioritized actions, increasing store revenue by up to 2% and cutting waste by up to 40%.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $273M (Series D led by Warburg Pincus).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Warburg Pincus (lead investor). Other investors include GV (Google Ventures), NGP Capital, and others from earlier rounds.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Trusted by over 2,100 customers worldwide.
  - Active on more than 170 million mobile devices.
  - Processes over 50 billion scans per year.
  - Achieved NPS score of +65.
  - Job postings up +66.7% year-over-year (10 active postings as of mid-2025).
  - Offices in 7 countries: Switzerland, UK, USA, Finland, Poland, Japan, and Italy.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Computer Vision Moat**: Proven at 80bn scans a year with ability to read barcodes in extreme conditions (low light, damage, distance, glare) — a 15-year R&D head start.
- **On-Device Processing**: All ID scanning and validation happens on-device (ISO 27001 certified), ensuring maximum privacy and offline capability.
- **Platform Agnostic**: Works on any smart device (smartphones, handhelds, fixed cameras, drones) — no proprietary hardware lock-in.
- **End-to-End Solution**: From SDKs and turnkey apps to shelf intelligence and retail insights, covering both data capture and actionable analytics.
- **Enterprise-Grade Support**: Includes trials, solution design, integration, and customer success support in the standard offering.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding Retail Intelligence**: Moving beyond barcode scanning into AI-driven shelf monitoring, planogram compliance, and waste reduction — targeting grocers, convenience stores, pharmacies, and DIY.
- **Supply Chain & Logistics Optimization**: Deepening capabilities in in-store picking and fulfillment to boost capacity without headcount increases.
- **Global Scale**: Growing office footprint (recent additions in Poland, Italy) and customer base (2,100+ customers) across retail, logistics, healthcare, and air travel.
- **Developer Ecosystem**: Launching "Scandit Agent Skills" to embed scanning expertise into coding agents, lowering integration barriers for new customers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes innovation, pioneer spirit, team spirit, dedication, getting things done, and having fun. Described as "human, warm, and collaborative."
- **Work Model**: Flexible — "Work at home, at the office or hybrid."
- **Global Team**: Employees across 5 continents with memorable global gatherings (e.g., 2024 global team outing in Croatia).
- **Recognition**: Certified "Great Place to Work" in 7 countries: Switzerland, UK, USA, Spain, Finland, Poland, and Italy.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on big brains having freedom to think, innovation hackathons, and collaboration with brilliant minds. Alumni go to top tech companies (Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple).
- **Perks**: "Share in our success" culture, legendary team outings, and a space to stretch yourself.

## Sources
1. [scandit.com](https://www.scandit.com/)
2. [scandit.com/company](https://www.scandit.com/company/)
3. [scandit.com/careers](https://www.scandit.com/careers/)
4. [LinkedIn - Scandit](https://www.linkedin.com/company/scandit)

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