Senior Accountant

Overview

This role supports the organization’s shared-services accounting team by cleaning up and standardizing accounting records for multiple brands as they are integrated. The work includes taking historical financials (typically the trailing 24–36 months) from their current state to “Quality of Earnings” (QoE) readiness, including reconciled bank and trust accounts, a standardized chart of accounts, and monthly reporting suitable for buyer/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.

• Department: Finance & Accounting
• Schedule: Monday–Friday | Overlap: U.S. Eastern Time working hours
• Reports to: Controller
• Compensation: USD $1,800–$2,500/month

Responsibilities

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

First 30/90-Day Expectations

• First 30 days: Assess each assigned brand and build a cleanup plan with dates.
• By 90 days: Ensure the first brands are on the organization’s standard chart of accounts with QoE-ready financials, using a close checklist the shared-services team can follow.
• Long-term: After cleanup, transition into integration work by bringing each new brand onto the standard as it joins.

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 (e.g., 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, or consolidating acquired companies onto a standard chart of accounts.

Compensation & Benefits

• USD $1,800–$2,500/month, depending on experience.