Sr Accountant - Intercompany Accounting

Company Intro

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.

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 Intercompany accounting.

{Hybrid & US Shifts}

What you’ll be doing:

The Senior Accountant, Intercompany will be responsible for:

• Operational accounting spanning the entire intercompany lifecycle. Maintaining the intercompany subledger globally across all brands.
• Maintaining global intercompany transactions and processes, including ensuring compliance with intercompany policy, intercompany transfer pricing agreements, as well as completeness and accuracy of intercompany accounts.
• Executing month-end intercompany closing activities to ensure accurate and timely accounting records are maintained.
• Review of global intercompany transactions and account activities to ensure proper elimination and presentation in consolidated financial statements.
• Ensuring the quality and integrity of the balance sheet and profit and loss accounts for and the variance analysis for intercompany.
• Responsible for monthly closing reports, variance analysis and reconciliations for intercompany in accordance with US GAAP and covering the Sox framework, and own the compliance aspect regarding this.
• Researching and preparing intercompany accounting analyses impacted by new business initiatives create and maintain transfer pricing accounting procedural documentation.
• Interacting and coordinating with Finance & Accounting teams within BHI Brands to ensure proper accounting treatment and accurate financial results.
• Partnering with Process Owner, Finance System teams and Tax teams to assist in the implementation of intercompany, transaction automation tooling and integration with accounting systems. 
• Ensuring SOX compliance by adhering to internal control requirements, maintaining documentation of key processes and controls, and enhancing the control environment with effective controls.
• Supporting internal and external audit requirements.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams on various initiatives, including Tax, FP&A, P2P, and OTC teams.
• Other duties and special projects as required (e.g. automation, process standardization, etc.).

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in Finance and/or accounting preferably within a Big4 environment and/or multinational corporate environment with 5+ years' of experience 
• Sound knowledge of US GAAP/IFRS and SOx
• Ability to work across multiple functions and entities to drive governance and process relating to intercompany operations.
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written) focused on leading and influencing the global intercompany process team; comfortable to lead a diverse set of peers and stakeholders; conveys a constructive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Experience working with global teams in different time zones.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Blackline, SAP, OneStream, preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace tools, preferred.
• Experience working in a global organization where leading and driving change across multiple companies is key.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask and meet deadlines within a fast paced environment.
• Strong written, verbal communication, and presentation skills.
• Accountability and Trust. Unquestionable integrity and ethics.

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