Team Lead Corporate Accounting

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 Global Business Services team will provide centralized operational accounting processes from our Center of Excellence in Bengaluru, India. Reporting to the Regulatory Reporting Manager , this role will be responsible for a team that prepares the Statutory Reporting, Government Filing, VAT and Audit requirements for a group of entities.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading and be responsible for all of the accounting activities for all corporate entities
• Overseeing the day-to-day corporate accounting operations of Corporate team
• Ensuring timeliness and accuracy of the overall monthly corporate close activities
• Providing support on both statutory and US financial audits and requests from internal and external auditors
• Overseeing the team with the monthly (quarterly, annual) closing process, review the teams work and take ownership for their performance
• Take full ownership and responsibility of the accounting for a defined set of entities, in accordance with US GAAP, local GAAP and compliance with both internal and external requirements
• Managing the balance sheet and profit and loss and the variance analysis for the corporate entities and complete the overall (Corporate) analysis
• Signing off on the regular and timely preparation of all required financial reports and schedules for defined entities
• Guiding the team in handling and solving complex bottlenecks and issues, for all matters impacting accounting. Own final issue resolution for items with potential global impact
• Cross-functional accounting activities (e.g. daily cash, prepaids, fixed assets, intangibles, intercompany transactions, accruals, leases, investments, dividends, and debt transactions of the parent corporation.
• Monthly closing reports, variance analysis and reconciliations in accordance with US GAAP and covering the Sox framework, and own the compliance aspect regarding this
• Collaborating closely with senior stakeholders within Finance
• Timely delivery and the integrity of the internal and/or external financial reporting.
• Managing footnote information for SEC filings, as well as information for local statutory filings
• Managing the 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
• Producing finance-related reports for Senior Management and for Head Office, internal and external auditors where applicable. Liaise with the regulatory authorities and maintain good relations with them.
• Overseeing all applicable SOX documentation, compliance and provide audit support to both internal and external auditors
• Ensuring adherence for a defined set of entities all compliance requirements including Sox, tax, statutory and statistical filings and statutory audits are met to fullest satisfaction
• Driving continuous improvement/harmonization and standardization, measuring of output process and input quality to achieve best-in-class performance
• Supporting and engaging in complex and cross-functional innovation and improvement projects in accounting and across finance
• Managing a team of people managers and drive operations, engagement and development within a large team located in diverse worldwide locations (BHI)
• 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.)