The opportunity
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences…
What you'll do
Manage the monthly close and financial reporting process, including: preparation of routine and non-routine journal entries, reconciliations, variance analysis, and stakeholder communication.
Support lease, fixed asset, software capitalization, and other operating: expense accounting impacting the income statement and balance sheet, ensuring accurate GAAP reporting and SOX compliance.
Perform financial statement variance and fluctuation analysis, identifying: anomalies and documenting key drivers.
Serve as a subject matter expert for accounting policies, systems, and: processes, supporting new products, features, and system changes through testing and validation.
Drive process improvements, standardization, automation, and ERP optimization: to meet SLA/KPI targets and support scalable operations.
Maintain robust documentation for accounting systems, workflows, and key: controls; support transitions, knowledge transfer, and cross-training initiatives.
What they're looking for
- Serves as a Subject Matter Expert for related policies and processes.
- Communicating accounting requirements and frameworks to partner teams for new: products and feature changes, including testing and validation.
- Collaborate with Technical Accounting on research and the preparation of: accounting memos and business process documentation
- Leverage data and automation tools (e.g., Alteryx, SQL, AI-enabled workflows): to analyze trends, risks, and opportunities, delivering actionable insights to improve performance and reduce risk.
