Accountant

Role Description:

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.

{Hybrid & EMEA Shifts}