Lease Accountant

<p dir="ltr"><strong>Company Intro</strong></p><p dir="ltr"><br />Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related<br />services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories<br />through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, priceline,<br />agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to<br />make it easier for everyone to experience the world.</p><p dir="ltr"><br /><br /><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong><br /><br />The Accountant, Lease Accounting will be responsible for:<br />● Performing the monthly (quarterly, annual) closing process related to leasing. Responsible for ledgers involving multiple countries and stakeholders, globally across all brands.<br />● Assessing and consistently applying accounting treatment for new and existing lease activities globally across all brands, and ensuring decisions align with accounting policy.<br />● Ensuring accounting in accordance with US GAAP, local GAAP and compliance with both internal and external requirements.<br />● Monthly closing reports, variance analysis and reconciliations in accordance with US GAAP and covering the Sox framework, and own the compliance aspect regarding this.<br />● Preparing footnote information for SEC filings, as well as information for local statutory filings.<br />● Fielding lease accounting inquiries and addressing complex lease accounting issues.<br />● Managing the lease management system, i.e. CoStar, for all brands globally. Maintaining lease accounting schedules within the lease management system. Ensure mastering of systems and processes are complete.<br />● Reviewing the completeness and accuracy of abstracted lease agreements in the lease management system for all brands globally.<br />● Analyzing, importing, and maintaining global accounting inputs for FX rates and discount rates in the lease management system.<br />● Reviewing alerts in the lease management system to identify potential issues that need to be researched. Taking the recommended actions to correct issues, where appropriate.<br />● Generating and reviewing monthly lease journal entries; distributing monthly and quarterly close reports, including reconciliations, disclosures, commitments, maturity analysis, forecasts, and other related reports to<br />brand accounting teams.<br />● Reconciling assigned balance sheet accounts monthly; resolving reconciling items on a timely basis. Responsible for complex accounts, e.g. Right-of-Use assets, accruals, prepayments.<br />● Preparing monthly variance explanations for income statement and balance sheet accounts, including providing financial details to leaders to facilitate business decisions.<br />● Partnering with the Real Estate and Lease Administration teams to provide financial analysis on the lease portfolio to help drive decisions at the Senior Management level.<br />● Executing standardized control procedures, and ensuring internal controls are effectively maintained for assigned tasks. Ensuring compliance with accounting policies.<br />● Providing support on both statutory and US financial audits and requests from internal and external auditors.<br />● Partnering with the Global Process Owner on various initiatives.<br />● Enacting continuous process improvements across lease accounting and lease administration functions and cross-functionally in conjunction with other teams, when applicable.<br />● Interfacing with cross-functional teams, including Tax, FP&A, P2P, Real Estate and Technology.<br />● Other duties and special projects as required (e.g., reporting, analysis, automation, process standardization, etc.).</p><p> </p><p><br /><strong>Skills and Qualification</strong></p><ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc;" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><strong>5-8 years</strong> of experience with <strong>PG</strong>/ <strong>Specialized Diploma - Chartered Accountant</strong></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc;" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Understanding of US GAAP. Experience with ASC 842, preferred.</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc;" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Technical accounting experience, preferred.</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc;" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Experience with SAP S/4HANA, CoStar, OneStream, and BlackLine, preferred.</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc;" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Excel proficiency required.</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc;" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace tools, preferred.</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc;" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Detail-oriented, strong analytical skills</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc;" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc;" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Demonstrated ability to multitask and meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment</p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc;" aria-level="1"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Accountability and Trust. Unquestionable integrity and ethics.</p></li></ul><p> </p><p>(Hybrid and EMEA shift)</p> <br><strong>Pre-Employment Screening</strong><br><br><p style="margin: 0px;"><em>If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.</em></p>