Senior Accountant - Corporate Accounting

Role Description:

Hybrid & US Shifts

Job Overview

Booking Holdings is currently undergoing a Finance Transformation initiative that will drive effective finance/accounting support for business management; promote strong governance and control in the organization; and have a world-class finance organization in terms of execution and efficiency.

To support this transformation, we are hiring a Corporate Senior Accountant within the Global Business Services organization. This role, reporting to the Corporate Accounting Manager - India, will be a critical finance role responsible for the accounting for numerous BHI entities, interacting with BHI personnel at various levels, as well as internal and external auditors.

What you’ll be doing:

The Senior Corporate Accountant, India will be responsible for:

• Accounting activities for certain areas of the corporate close not limited to, daily cash, prepaids, fixed assets, intangibles, intercompany transactions, accruals, leases, and debt transactions of the parent corporation
• Ensuring timeliness and accuracy of monthly corporate close activities
• Providing support on both statutory and US financial audits and requests from internal and external auditors
• Managing monthly (quarterly, annual) closing process related tasks
• Reconciling assigned balance sheet accounts monthly; resolve any reconciling items on a timely basis
• Reconciling ERP to consolidation tool on a monthly basis, and maintain roll-forwards within the consolidation tool
• Preparation of the balance sheet and profit and loss and the variance analysis for the corporate entities
• Preparation of monthly closing reports, variance analysis and reconciliations in accordance with US GAAP and covering the Sox framework, and own the compliance aspect regarding this
• Timely delivery and the integrity of the internal and/or external financial reporting
• Preparing footnote information for SEC filings, as well as information for local statutory filings
• Preparing governmental reports, annual returns and / or various statutory and statistical filings for multiple entities in accordance with all internal policies and external requirements and ensuring the Sox control framework is in place
• Overseeing all applicable SOX documentation, compliance and provide audit support to both internal and external auditors
• Ensuring adherence for defined tasks/areas assigned, all compliance requirements including Sox, tax, statutory and statistical filings and statutory audits are met to fullest satisfaction
• Partnering with other key Finance departments such as Treasury, P2P, Financial systems, Risk & Controls on tasks and projects with a cross functional impact
• Ad-hoc projects as they arise (e.g., automation, ERP implementation, etc.)

What you’ll bring :

• - Sound knowledge of US GAAP/IFRS and SOx
• Minimum 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Project management and/or transformation experience, a plus.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, rapidly growing and fluid organization.
• Ability to effectively communicate at various levels of the organization tailored appropriately to the audience.
• Candidate should demonstrate effective collaboration skills up, down and across the organization.
• Maintain effectiveness in continually evolving environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Oracle, SAP, Blackline is preferred.
• Experience with OneStream or Hyperion Financial Management is a plus.