Senior Accountant

Pillar was founded in 2025. Today, we are 90+ people, serve 1000+ customers, raised €15.2M (pre-seed and seed round) and are expanding internationally. We are building the financial operating system for construction: bringing AI, automation and modern software to an enormous industry still full of slow, fragmented processes. We are looking for a Senior Accountant who loves clean books, enjoys knowing every account inside out and wants to help build Pillar’s finance team from the very first day. Why join now Pillar invoices hundreds of construction companies every month, revenue has grown from almost zero to €4M+ annualised in under a year and a second country is launching. The mission Own Pillar’s books every day: keep the ledgers accurate and reconciled, run receivables, payables and VAT, and give the Financial Controller and the CFO numbers they can trust without a second check. What you will do
• Own day-to-day accounting: journal entries, accruals, prepayments, fixed assets and payroll entries.
• Prepare close schedules and keep supporting files ready for the auditor.
• Reconcile bank accounts, payment providers, billing and the general ledger every month, with no unexplained differences.
• Reconcile invoiced revenue with the ARR figures from our data team.
• Run accounts receivable with Sales and Customer Success: invoicing checks, collections follow-up and credit notes.
• Run accounts payable: supplier invoices, electronic invoicing (SDI), approvals and payment runs.
• Prepare VAT returns, F24 payments and supporting schedules with the commercialista, and automate the manual work you find along the way. Who we are looking for Precise, curious people who like it when the numbers add up
• You have 3 to 5 years of accounting experience, in a finance team of a growing company (startup or scaleup).
• You have solid knowledge of Italian GAAP (OIC), VAT and electronic invoicing.
• You have run monthly closes and reconciliations at high transaction volumes.
• You are precise and organised, and you stay calm with deadlines.
• You use Excel or Google Sheets every day for reconciliations and reporting.
• You prefer fixing a process to working around it, and you like automating repetitive work.
• You enjoy working with other teams and explaining numbers in simple words.
• You are curious about AI and modern tools and happy to use them to work better.
• Nice to have: SaaS or subscription billing, modern accounting software and integrations, audit preparation. How we work
• Small teams, high autonomy, no unnecessary layers.
• AI-first and automation by default, in the product and in the way we work.
• Bottom-up: initiative is expected, not delegated.
• Pillar is not for you if you are looking for a finance function that is already built. We are building it, and you will help. Hiring process 01 CV screening 02 30-min People call with Marta 03 60-min technical interview with our CFO 04 Final conversation with our CEO

What we offer
• Gross salary 35.000-55.000 €, based on experience
• €8 meal vouchers for every working day
• €1,000 in welfare and €1,000 in fringe benefits every year, to spend on what matters to you
• A founding role: you will be one of the first people in Pillar’s finance team and set up many processes yourself
• Room to grow: you will work closely with the Financial Controller and the CFO as we prepare for our Series A and our first audit
• Our Milan office, with an offsite every 6 months with the whole team
• People who care: a team that celebrates wins together, gives honest feedback and has fun along the way.