The posting
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. 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.
What you’ll be doing: The 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 3-5 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. ● Candidates should demonstrate effective collaboration skills up, down and across the organization. ● Maintain effectiveness in a 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.
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