Senior GL Accountant

Join Booking.com as a Senior GL Accountant

Role Description

This Senior Accountant is responsible for a variety of accounting activities in accordance with accounting principles and standards to control the organization’s financial resources, and be accountable that it complies with all relevant regulations, laws, and reporting requirements in line with US GAAP. The role will have ownership for a specific scope, including IT (cloud computing arrangements), legal expenses, litigation analysis and accrual, and insurance. This role will include oversight of other accountants on routine, non-complex tasks, including coaching and development of those accountants, support of new hires with their onboarding, and promoting more efficient/effective processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the detailed accounting of IT, legal and insurance expenses and accruals. Responsibility includes posting journal entries based on complete and accurate information per the month-end close timeframe, reconciling accounts, and performing analysis subsequently to maintain a complete and accurate general ledger.
• Analyze, compile and verify financial information and create financial reports and accounting statements so that the extended leadership team has accurate and timely information for making financial decisions.
• Be the subject matter expert in the accounting areas owned, being able to analyze and respond to questions, act as a point of contact, and work with functional or operational stakeholders to help with development of budgets, understanding of financial reports, and management of their financial responsibilities.
• Proactively support in covering all compliance requirements, i.e. Sox, tax, statutory and statistical filings and audits.
• Support internal & external audits and inquiries.
• Ensure mastering of systems and processes are complete, responsible for ledgers involving multiple countries and/or stakeholders.
• Support the team by identifying and communicating issues, with recommended process improvements, where possible.
• Identify and complete process improvement projects (including completion of existing projects and working through new projects).
• Provide oversight of other accountants on routine, non-complex tasks.
• Mentor and coach team members with onboarding and continuous development.

Requirements

• Broad Job Knowledge (3 - 5 years)
• Bachelor degree: Accounting, Finance degree and/or Specialized Certification, such as CIMA, ACCA, CRA or CPA
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong work ethic; self-directed and resourceful
• Solution oriented and result driven
• Proactive, flexible and capable of working independently as well as working in a team
• Good communication and analytical skills
• Ability to multi-task & flexible attitude
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• Systems: ERP, Microsoft Applications & Excel

Pre-Employment Screening

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.