Booking Holdings - Senior Accountant - Fixed Assets & Lease Accounting (3-9 yrs)

[Hybrid & US Shifts]

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

Job Overview:

Booking Holdings is currently undergoing a Finance Transformation initiative that will drive effective finance 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. As part of this initiative, the newly formed Global Business Services team will provide centralized operational accounting processes from our Center of Excellence in Bengaluru, India. This role will be responsible for handling the operational accounting processes for our Fixed Assets accounting.

This individual will serve as an integral member of a team responsible for the fixed assets accounting of Booking Holdings and our subsidiaries ($1.9B portfolio), to ensure accurate and timely preparation and review of journal entries and account reconciliations. The ideal candidate will thrive in an entrepreneurial setting and take ownership of his/her work. A successful candidate will possess the communication skills and business acumen necessary to interact with multiple teams across Booking Holdings and our subsidiaries.

What you'll be doing:

The Senior Accountant, Fixed Assets & Lease Accounting will be responsible for:

- Overseeing the monthly, quarterly, and annual closing process related to fixed assets & lease accounting.

- Operational accounting spanning the entire fixed assets lifecycle. Maintaining the fixed assets subledger globally across all brands, placing assets in service based on completion of milestones by facilities, technology, and development teams, and retiring assets in accordance with accounting policy.

- Reviewing fixed assets purchase orders to ensure proper coding and other classification, such as internal order numbers, cost centers, and business areas.

- Assessing and consistently applying accounting treatment for fixed assets & lease activities globally across brands, and ensuring decisions align with accounting policy.

- Ensuring accounting in accordance with US GAAP, local GAAP, and compliance with both internal and external requirements.

- Generating and reviewing monthly fixed assets & lease accounting entries; distributing monthly and quarterly close reports, including reconciliations, disclosures, and other related reports to brand accounting teams.

- Preparing monthly close reports, variance analysis and reconciliations in accordance with US GAAP and the SOx framework; owning SOx compliance.

- Managing lease accounting schedules and key financial data within the lease management system, i.e. CoStar, for all brands globally. Reviewing the completeness and accuracy of abstracted lease agreements. Analyzing, importing, and maintaining global accounting inputs for FX rates and discount rates. Reviewing alerts in the lease management system to identify potential issues that need to be addressed, and taking recommended actions to correct issues, where appropriate.

- Reconciling assigned balance sheet accounts monthly; resolving reconciling items on a timely basis. Prepare and maintain roll forward reconciliations.

- Preparing monthly variance explanations for income statement and balance sheet accounts including providing financial details to leaders to facilitate business decisions.

- Executing standardized control procedures, and ensuring internal controls are effectively maintained for assigned tasks. Ensuring compliance with accounting policies.

- Managing footnote information for SEC filings, as well as information for local statutory filings.

- Fielding fixed assets & lease accounting inquiries and addressing complex accounting issues.

- Partnering with Real Estate and Technology teams to provide financial analysis on the fixed assets & lease portfolio to help drive decisions at the Senior Management level.

- Partnering with Technical Accounting to ensure completeness and accuracy of complex accounting assumptions.

- Providing support on both statutory and US financial audits and requests from internal and external auditors. Supporting internal and external audit requirements.

- Partnering with the Global Process Owner on various initiatives. Supporting and engaging in complex and cross-functional innovation and improvement projects in accounting and across finance.

- Supporting continuous process improvements across the fixed assets & lease accounting functions and cross-functionally in conjunction with other teams, when applicable.

- Interfacing with cross-functional teams, including Tax, FP&A, P2P, Real Estate and Technology.

- Other duties and special projects as required (e.g., reporting, analysis, automation, process standardization, etc.).

What you'll bring:

- CA with 5+ years of experience OR MBA Finance with 8+ Years of experience

- 5+ years of related professional experience, preferably with a GL or technical accounting team of a US Multinational Company.

- Understanding of US GAAP. Experience with ASC 360 and ASC 350, preferred.

- Technical accounting experience, preferred.

- Experience with SAP S/4HANA, OneStream, and BlackLine, preferred.

- Excel proficiency required.

- Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace tools, preferred.

- Detail-oriented, strong analytical skills

- Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills

- Demonstrated ability to multitask and meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment

- Accountability and Trust. Unquestionable integrity and ethics.

About BOOKNG:

Booking Holdings is the world leader in online travel & related services. Our teams work around the clock to build and improve the technology that empowers people to more freely travel across borders, time zones, languages and cultures. At Booking Holdings, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world every day through seamless technology powered by our six major brands:

Booking.com. KAYAK, priceline, agoda, Rentalcars.com, OpenTable

Through the Booking Holdings brands, we help our customers reach all corners of the earth. Our ability to provide great service rests on how well we understand our diverse customer base, which is why having a diverse team is so important to us. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

EEO Statement:

Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities.