Senior Accountant

Overview

This role is responsible for cleaning up and standardizing each brand’s accounting books as they join a shared-services accounting team. The goal is to produce “quality of earnings” (QoE)–ready financials, including fully reconciled bank and trust accounts, a standardized chart of accounts, and monthly financial statements suitable for buyer and investor diligence.

The position is full-time and remote for LATAM, with working-hours overlap with U.S. Eastern Time.

• Schedule: Monday–Friday | overlap with U.S. Eastern Time working hours
• Department: Finance & Accounting
• Reports to: Controller

Responsibilities

• Clean up each brand’s historical books (typically the trailing 24–36 months) so they can withstand a Quality of Earnings review.
• Correct misclassifications, clear suspense and uncategorized balances, and document every material adjustment.
• Prepare clean monthly financial statements and supporting schedules by brand and consolidated, including 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.
  • Tie 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 (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).
• Comfortable working across several entities at once.
• Strong written English.
• 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 per month, depending on experience.

Location

• Remote (LATAM)
• Working-hours overlap with U.S. Eastern Time