Airbnb Senior Accountant, Consolidations at Airbnb responsible for managing intercompany and consolidation accounting activities during month-end close. Serve as a resource on intercompany topics and improve accounting processes.
Responsibilities
Own your assigned close areas from start to finish, preparing and posting monthly intercompany and consolidation journal entries and reconciliations by the close milestone dates, including global funding and settlements, ad hoc cash transfers, recharges, and eliminations like intercompany profit.
Prepare and post journal entries for foreign currency transactions, redenominations, and translation adjustments.
Work with Treasury on cash pool and intercompany funding accounting, including settlements with FX, accrued and capitalized interest, and reconciliations.
Work with Treasury, Tax, and other Controlling teams to clear intercompany imbalances and close blockers, raising risks early with a proposed fix, and serve as a resource on intercompany topics such as consolidation and eliminations (ASC 810), foreign currency, and capital transactions.
Keep documentation, workpapers, and SOPs current so the work is repeatable and audit-ready, and respond to internal, external, and statutory audit requests.
Cut manual work out of the close. Start with the entries and reconciliations within our team, then take on the processes we share with Tax, Treasury, and other partners, to shorten the close and reduce control risk.
Core working hours: 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM Pacific Time (11:30 AM to 8:30 PM Eastern Time)
Qualification
4+ years of accounting experiencePreferred
Required
Additional flexibility required during month-end close
BS/BA in Accounting and a CPA or Chartered Accountant.
4+ years of accounting experience, with at least 1 year in month-end close.
Experience automating accounting or close work, including using AI tools to drive efficiency gains, and advanced Excel for analyzing large data sets.
Experience improving controls and reconciliation processes that keep working as volume and complexity increase.
Experience owning an assigned close area or workstream end to end with minimal oversight, and a record of spotting problems early and proposing fixes that go beyond the minimum.
Experience learning a new accounting area or system quickly and applying it in a live close, working with partners across Finance to resolve issues, and communicating clearly in English, in writing and verbally.
Preferred: public accounting experience; direct intercompany accounting experience, especially capital transactions and FX accounting under US GAAP (ASC 830); SQL or another database query language; experience with a large-scale ERP.
