[Hiring] Senior Accountant @ToursByLocals

Role Description

As a Senior Accountant at ToursByLocals, you’ll be a strong, hands-on technical accountant responsible for complex accounting areas, month-end and year-end close, revenue accounting, financial reporting, and reconciliations. Reporting to the Controller, you’ll dig into complex or messy accounting issues, break them down into their underlying drivers, and work systematically to get to the root cause.

Your primary goal will be to ensure accurate, timely accounting while solving complex issues at their source. Here’s how you’ll do that:

• Lead key accounting and close activities: coordinate month-end and year-end close, prepare and review complex journal entries and reconciliations, and investigate discrepancies through to resolution.
• Own complex technical and revenue accounting: lead revenue recognition and deferred revenue accounting, research technical accounting matters, and apply appropriate accounting guidance to complex and non-routine transactions.
• Support multi-entity financial reporting: oversee intercompany accounting, consolidations, eliminations, foreign currency transactions, and financial reporting across multiple entities and currencies.
• Support audits, treasury, and controls: lead subsidiary and entity-level audits, support the consolidated annual audit, and contribute to cash management, cash-flow forecasting, tax and regulatory reporting, and strong accounting controls.
• Make our accounting processes better: identify opportunities to improve and automate accounting processes, systems, reconciliations, and reporting, including opportunities to use AI and automation within Finance.
• Share your expertise: review accounting work and mentor junior and intermediate team members, helping strengthen technical accounting knowledge across the Finance team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with strong technical accounting knowledge across areas such as revenue recognition, deferred revenue, financial reporting, and complex transactions.
• Strong ASPE knowledge and ability to research accounting guidance, determine the appropriate treatment, and clearly document conclusions.
• Hands-on experience investigating complex reconciliations and significant variances, with the curiosity and persistence to trace issues back to their root cause.
• Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency, inter-company, and consolidation accounting, along with strong Excel and accounting system/ERP skills.
• Comfortable taking ownership of complex accounting issues and working independently, while prioritizing competing deadlines and collaborating effectively with the broader Finance team.
• Love to learn and grow – challenge yourself to learn, fail, and constantly improve through formal education or professional experience.

Requirements

• Hold a CPA designation or are actively pursuing your CPA.
• Experience improving and automating accounting processes, including experience with AI, QuickBooks automation, or payment processor reconciliations such as Adyen.
• Experience with treasury, cash management, foreign currency accounting, or leading subsidiary/entity-level audits.
• Worked in a growing, multi-entity organization and have experience with or exposure to U.S. GAAP.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and dental coverage for you and your family, plus up to $1,000 annual health spending account.
• A Mac computer, accessories, and furniture to set up your workspace.
• Three weeks of paid vacation, additional flexible PTO, and the ability to switch statutory holidays.
• After one year, work from anywhere in the world for up to 90 days.
• A 25% discount and an annual voucher for ToursByLocals experiences.
• Work from home with a schedule that fits your needs.
• Maternity and parental leave top-ups.