Booking Holdings Romania - Senior Accountant (Romanian Jurisdiction)

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 five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role description

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 Bucharest, Romania.  Reporting to the Senior Finance Manager , this role will be responsible for the regional company in Romania and will prepare the US GAAP and Statutory Reporting, Government Filing, VAT and Audit requirements for the Romania entity.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

• Complete the monthly closing process for the regional entity, including preparation of journal entries, accruals, prepayments, reconciliation of general ledger accounts, detailed supporting analysis and relevant documentation, in accordance with US GAAP, local GAAP and compliance with both internal and external requirements.
• Support for the reconciliation of the US GAAP vs local GAAPs
• Work closely with Procurement, Accounting teams 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
• Lead the completeness in due time of  the various statutory compliance filings for the entity, including VAT, corporate tax returns, statutory financial statements, statistical reports, and other local statutory filings. 
• Identifying, handling and solving complex bottlenecks and issues and own final issue resolution for various statutory compliance filings
• Drive the execution of the Engagement letter (ex. External Auditor Deloitte or Third party such as PWC)
• Monitor and implement all government or local reporting requirements of the entity - CIT, WHT, dividends, TP, SAF-T, e-invoicing
• Lead challenges for operational improvements with medium to high impact & complexity
• Support Ad Hoc projects as needed (ex. One Source, ERP, automation  etc.)

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor degree
• Specialized Diploma - Chartered Accountant
• 5 - 8 years relevant job knowledge
• Expertise in US GAAP/IFRS and SOX
• Experience with VAT, Statutory Audit and Government Reporting
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA, OneSource, Workiva, OneStream, and BlackLine, preferred
• Excel proficiency required
• Experience with Microsoft Office and Google Workspace tools, preferred
• Diligent, strong analytical skills
• Independence in preparing management reports for target audience
• Demonstrated ability to multitask and meet deadlines within a fast-paced environment
• Accountability and Trust. Unquestionable integrity and ethics
• Expertise in preparing for and participating in meetings with collaborators across global teams, managing expectations of others by setting realistic objectives and deadlines, escalation paths
• Independence in reviewing the work of others and improving operational processes through standardization or automation
• Strong personal initiative, enthusiasm, results orientation, and resourcefulness
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively within cross-functional teams and resolve issues

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.

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.