--- title: 'Financial Accountant at fonio' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/financial-accountant-fonio-vienna-vmvw6kpp86kb' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-29' --- # Financial Accountant at fonio - **Company:** fonio - **Location:** Vienna, Austria - **Compensation:** €65k–€100k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fonio/a0f36795-90e6-422f-804e-a979c67acd1c ## Job description ## About fonio We grew from $1M to $10M ARR in under 12 months and now serve 10,000+ customers. Fonio is Europe’s market leader for AI phone agents for SMBs. Now we’re expanding globally and into new products. We move fast, take ownership, give direct feedback, and avoid politics and unnecessary meetings. Join one of world´s fastest-growing companies. ## The role You make sure Fonio's numbers are right and can stand up to auditors and investors. That means owning the monthly and year-end close, and solving tricky questions such as how to account for pay-per-minute revenue across nine markets and more. As new entities and products launch, you set up the accounting so it scales, rather than patching it later. What to Expect - In-house accounting: Take over accounting from our external provider and build the internal function. - Operational ownership: Own day-to-day accounting, including AP/AR, reconciliations, master data and bookkeeping. - Monthly close & reporting: Own monthly closing and recurring statutory filings (VAT, ZM, Intrastat, etc.), working closely with our tax advisors. - Revenue recognition: make sure usage-based revenue is recognised correctly and consistently. - Multi-entity: run intercompany accounting, currencies and consolidation as UK and US entities come online, and integrate acquisitions such as fluently. - Controls and policies: write accounting policies and controls that hold up in investor due diligence. - Oversight: keep billing, payables and payroll postings accurate, and improve processes and systems as volume grows. ## What You Bring Must-haves - 4 to 7 years in accounting, ideally with audit firm training plus time at a tech or SaaS company. - Qualified or part-qualified (Bilanzbuchhalter, ACCA, CPA or similar). - Has owned month-end and year-end close and statutory accounts under Austrian GAAP (UGB). - Confident handling audits and technical accounting questions. - Fluent in English. Nice-to-haves - Revenue recognition for subscription or usage-based pricing. - Multi-entity consolidation, or IFRS exposure. - Experience with post-merger integration or investor due diligence. - Familiar with modern finance tools (e.g. BMD, DATEV, Xero or Stripe). ## What We Offer - €65,000 to €100,000 + Equity - Relocation support - Daily lunch and dinner - Equipment of your choice - Regular team off-sites - On-site in Vienna, working directly with the core-team Hiring Process - 15 min intro call - 30 min skill interview - 20 min culture fit ## About fonio ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: fonio is a European AI platform that provides AI phone assistants and omnichannel customer communication solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: Vienna, Austria - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Daniel Keinrath (CEO) and Matthias Gruber (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: AI-powered customer communication / Telecommunications - **Target customers**: B2B, primarily small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with high volumes of customer calls - **Mission or purpose statement**: To ensure no lead, customer, or opportunity is missed by providing 24/7 AI-powered communication across phone, WhatsApp, email, and chat. ## Products & Services - **AI Phone Assistant**: An AI agent that handles inbound and outbound calls, capable of scheduling appointments, answering inquiries, processing orders, and transcribing conversations. It features speech recognition for difficult dialects, turn-detection for natural conversation flow, and real-time emotion recognition. It can be set up in under 10 minutes with no coding required. - **Omnichannel Platform**: Expanding beyond voice to include WhatsApp (already live), with email and chatbot support to follow. The platform integrates with CRMs, calendar tools, and databases via native integrations and APIs. - **Proprietary Calendar**: An AI-native calendar tool that is already live as part of the platform. - **Proprietary CRM**: A CRM purpose-built for AI-driven customer interactions, expected to launch by the end of Q3 2026. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $140 million valuation (as of June 2026, per seed round) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of over $20 million, including a $17 million seed round led by 20VC (June 2026) and a €3 million angel round (December 2025). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: 20VC (lead), with participation from founders and executives of Synthesia, HubSpot, and Revolut. Previous angel investors include early backers of Facebook and Airbnb. - **Growth Signals**: - Over 7,000 customers across nine markets (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Poland, Brazil, UK, USA) - Automates over 2 million calls per month - Growing at roughly 40% month-over-month - Acquired competitor fluently in September 2025 - Added $1 million in ARR in April 2026 alone, targeting a 5x increase by year-end - Opening offices in New York, Munich, Milan, Paris, London, Warsaw, and Barcelona ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary European Infrastructure**: Develops its own orchestration layer and models (speech recognition, turn-detection, emotion recognition), ensuring all data remains in the EU on servers in Nuremberg, Germany. This differentiates them from competitors who white-label US services. - **High End-to-End Resolution Rate**: In roughly 90% of cases, the AI agent conducts a fully human-like conversation and resolves the inquiry without needing to route it to a human. - **Builder-Heavy Team**: Over half the team are former founders, operations leaders, or people who have scaled products at companies like Canva. ## Strategic Focus - **Omnichannel Expansion**: Moving beyond voice to become a full omnichannel platform (WhatsApp, email, chat). - **International Expansion**: Establishing physical offices in key markets (New York, Munich, Milan, Paris, London, Warsaw, Barcelona) after recent launches in the UK and US. - **Building an AI-Native Tool Ecosystem**: Developing a proprietary calendar and CRM to create a complete, integrated platform for customer communication. ## Why Work Here - **Rapid Growth & Impact**: The company is in a phase of hypergrowth (40% MoM), and employees are "still early enough that your work will genuinely shape the culture, the product, and the company." [fonio.ai/en/careers](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers) - **Culture**: Described as fast, committed, and in-office by default. The team emphasizes moving fast and having fun. Most roles are Vienna-based, with the expectation of being in the office most days. - **Remote Options**: Engineering roles are fully remote (within ±3 hours of CET). For other roles, there is a temporary relocation to Vienna for onboarding (1-3 months), followed by relocation to the target market. - **Relocation Support**: The company sponsors travel and accommodation in Vienna for the onboarding period and offers full relocation support for moving to target markets. - **Team Size**: Around 40-50 people, with plans to double by the end of the year. - **Hiring Process**: A 3-4 step process: 15-minute intro call, 30-45 minute skills interview (sometimes with a case study), potentially a deeper skills or leadership interview, and a final 20-minute culture call with both founders. [fonio.ai/en/careers](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers) ## Sources 1. [fonio.ai - Product Page](https://www.fonio.ai/en) 2. [fonio.ai - Careers Page](https://www.fonio.ai/en/careers) 3. [fonio.ai - Press Section](https://www.fonio.ai/en/press) 4. [fonio.ai - Seed Funding Press Release](https://www.fonio.ai/en/news-cool-stuff/pr-14mio-seed-funding-20vc) 5. 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