Senior Accountant, Franchise Billing

Overview

This role leads and oversees franchise billing and accounting activities across multiple property portfolios. Responsibilities include managing revenue-related journal entries, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, maintaining billing allocations and codes, and driving continuous process improvements to meet assigned deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Review monthly franchise billing invoices in accordance with contract terms, amendments, and assigned billing schedules.
• Review billing allocations, general ledger coding, franchise invoicing inputs, and related distributions.
• Prepare and post general ledger journal entries, accruals, month-end adjustments, and related balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support franchise billing inquiries, accounting research, aging review, and coordination with Franchise AR.
• Assist with multi-entity or international billing workflows (where assigned), ensuring transactions match contractual requirements.
• Maintain organized billing templates, workbooks, and master documentation for contract changes, codes, and invoice updates.
• Support internal controls, audit requests, accounting analysis, and monthly reporting for assigned franchises.
• Participate in billing-process standardization and improvement efforts; provide informal technical guidance to colleagues as needed.
• Attend monthly onboard meetings with stakeholders to review current month’s billing changes and requirements.
• Maintain communication and collaboration with team members and applicable stakeholders, including legal, for contract language and interpretation.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of combined experience in billing, revenue accounting, or general accounting with recurring billing responsibility.
• Experience preparing or reviewing journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, and accounting/reporting workpapers.
• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP.
• Strong Microsoft skills, including Excel, for billing, financial analysis, and large datasets.
• Strong attention to detail, critical forward thinking, and the ability to interpret contracts.
• Excellent communication and ownership of recurring billing processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Accounting degree with three or more years of high-volume, multi-entity or franchise-agreement billing experience.
• At least 2 years of corporate general accounting and financial reporting in a multi-entity business.
• Familiarity with Yardi or a comparable accounting system; Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365); Power BI.
• Experience with franchise revenue allocations and multi-brand or international billing.
• Experience performing month-over-month financial analysis, identifying trends and variances, and investigating significant fluctuations.

Compensation & Benefits

• Holidays: U.S. corporate holiday calendar.

Location

• Work setup: Work from home
• Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time