Booking Holdings Romania - Accountant

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and 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 our Brands. As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.

Role description

Booking Holdings is looking for an Accountant to be part of our Finance and Accounting team at our delivery center in Bucharest, Romania. Booking Holdings will build technical expertise within these centers, referred to as 'Centers of Excellence (COE)' to serve various brands and entities within the Holding portfolio.

The role will involve working closely with the Accounting Team and other departments (AP, Procurement, Treasury, etc.) in executing accounting, internal controls and statutory reporting activities. The tasks and duties of this role may evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and to take on additional challenges and responsibilities as they occur.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• AP invoices monitoring and documents archive maintenance, including proper documentation for fiscal purposes. Balance reconciliation and validation for Local and US GAAP.
• Travel and expenses documents review, approval and/or follow-up with the employees. Ensure completeness and accuracy of the archived documents and maintain an updated procedure.
• Cash needs monitoring in EUR on a regular basis
• Process documents application for various GL accounts in order to maintain the open documents accurately as of month end
• Provide support for fixed assets transactions, acquisition and depreciation and reconciliation between Local and US GAAP
• Provide support for annual inventory process for all balance sheet items according to Local accounting rules.
• Provide support for the monthly closing process for the CoE entity, including preparation of recurring and non-recurring journal entries, like, prepayments, documentation of AP/AR ledger accounts, detailed supporting analysis and relevant documentation, in accordance with US GAAP, local GAAP and compliance with both internal and external requirements.
• Work closely with Procurement and external partners to ensure recorded accounting entries have proper supporting documentation that are in compliance with local statutory requirements related to VAT, WHT, CIT and that are accurately reflected in the statutory financial statements
• Provide support for the various statutory compliance filings for the CoE, including statutory financial statements, corporate tax returns, statistical reports, and other local statutory filings.
• Provide support with external and internal audits, to ensure audits are completed timely and accurately.
• Create, maintain and update procedures and work instructions for all activities performed
• Participate in implementation of region initiatives and projects. Support global accounting or broader projects.
• Identify and solve issues in direct work to benefit the whole team.
• Be a team player and work collectively to adapt to change to our dynamic work environment.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor degree
• 3-5 Years of relevant Job Knowledge
• Fiscal experience for Romania
• Good understanding of accounting entries and principles
• Able to cope with dynamic and high change environment
• Takes ownership for responsibilities with a positive attitude
• Detail oriented and analytical skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Proactive self-starter, resourceful with strong work ethic
• Solution-oriented and result-driven
• Capable of working independently as well as working in a team
• Fluent in spoken and written English
• IT experience in financial systems, including SAP, is preferable

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

Pre-Employment Screening:

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.