Senior Accountant

Overview

This Senior Accountant role supports a shared-services Finance & Accounting team focused on cleaning up and standardizing accounting records across multiple short-term rental management entities. The work includes taking each brand’s historical financials to “QoE-ready” status, ensuring reconciled bank and trust accounts, standardized chart of accounts, and monthly financial reporting suitable for buyer and investor diligence.

The position is full-time and remote, open to candidates outside the United States, with working-hours overlap with U.S. Eastern Time.

Responsibilities

• Clean up each brand’s historical books (typically the trailing 24–36 months) to withstand a Quality of Earnings review.
• Correct misclassifications and resolve suspense and uncategorized balances; document every material adjustment.
• Prepare clean monthly P&Ls, balance sheets, and supporting schedules by brand and on a consolidated basis, including workpapers requested by diligence teams.
• Reconcile operating accounts, payroll accounts, and credit card accounts; catch up behind months; ensure each brand remains closed and reconciled monthly.
• Perform three-way reconciliations of owner trust and guest deposit accounts; resolve shortages, overages, and commingling; escalate any items with regulatory exposure.
• Ensure trust accounting meets state real estate and vacation rental rules in each market, and tie owner statements and payouts back to trust balances.
• Map each brand’s chart of accounts to the standardized chart of accounts; align accounting policies across brands.
• Prepare clean data for migration into NetSuite.
• Tie PMS data (Guesty, Track, Streamline) to the general ledger.
• Write repeatable month-end close checklists and reconciliation procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• 4+ years of accounting experience, including hands-on cleanup or catch-up bookkeeping.
• Strong command of bank reconciliations and month-end close.
• Experience with trust or escrow accounting, ideally in property management, real estate, or vacation rentals.
• Proficiency in QuickBooks Online and advanced Excel (lookups, pivot tables, reconciliation workpapers).
• Comfort working across several entities at once.
• Strong written English and availability to overlap with U.S. Eastern Time.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or progress toward licensure.
• Experience supporting a QoE review, audit, or M&A due diligence.
• NetSuite experience, especially multi-subsidiary setups or data migrations.
• Familiarity with short-term rental PMS platforms, owner statements, and/or consolidating acquired companies onto a standard chart of accounts.

Compensation & Benefits

• USD $1,800–$2,500 per month (depending on experience).

Location & Schedule

• Full-time | Remote (LATAM)
• Schedule: Monday–Friday with overlap with U.S. Eastern Time working hours.