Accounting Manager

About this role

Responsibilities

• Core Accounting & Reporting
• Financial Close: Lead and drive the month-end close for key areas (including marketing and fixed assets), ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the US GAAP general ledger and timely reconciliation completion.
• Drive Financial Clarity: Provide insightful monthly and quarterly P&L and balance sheet flux analysis and commentary for senior stakeholders, providing critical visibility upwards by clearly articulating key drivers, risks, and one-off items.
• Ensure Technical Integrity: Perform critical technical reviews and evaluations of commercial contracts (such as marketing agreements), applying strong technical accounting judgment with a balanced commercial perspective.
• Act as Subject Matter Expert: Serve as a trusted resource by responding to ad-hoc queries with clear, consistent, and well-supported explanations across your areas of ownership.
• Champion Process Improvement & Innovation
• Transform Processes: Champion continuous improvement initiatives, identifying and driving opportunities to simplify, streamline, and automate close processes, including the appropriate use of AI tools.
• Standardize Operations: Partner with the Centre of Excellence (COE) team to transition, standardize, and maintain recurring reconciliations and close tasks, ensuring consistency and a robust control environment.
• Partner with the Business
• Be a Strategic Partner: Work closely with business and functional partners to develop a deep commercial awareness, providing observations and recommendations that ensure efficient processes and a strong internal control framework.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with the Consolidation & Reporting, Finance Operations, and Tax teams to provide comprehensive impacts and considerations for key areas.
• Lead & Develop the Team
• Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop one direct report, and support the wider brand accounting and COE teams.
• Build Capability: Provide day-to-day direction, coaching, and support to junior team members and COE preparers, helping to build their capability and ownership over time.
• Foster Communication: Coordinate effectively across multiple time zones (US, Europe, India, APAC) and foster a culture of transparent communication, normalizing timely and informal feedback to empower and develop the team.
• Please apply if you have:
• Experience & Qualifications
• Fully‑qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA or equivalent), or equivalent strong experience in financial accounting.
• Solid experience in financial accounting / GL roles, including ownership of month‑end close, reconciliations, and process improvement for key balance sheet and P&L areas.
• Experience working with or alongside a shared service / COE model, including supporting process transitions and ongoing governance, is a plus.
• Skills & ways of working
• Strong technical grounding in US GAAP / IFRS and good accounting judgement on day‑to‑day issues.
• Ability to standardize and document processes and to use data and systems to support reconciliations and analysis.
• Clear, concise communicator, able to explain accounting topics and reconciliation outcomes to both finance and non‑finance partners.
• Proactive, organized, and comfortable managing multiple deadlines in a fast‑moving environment.
• Curious, hands-on and solution focussed, equally at ease in the detail and looking at the big picture.
• Embrace change and strive to continuously improve the way we work and collaborate with each other, both within finance and the wider business.
• Benefits and Perks
• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year
• Focus on mental health and well-being:
• Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth
• Company-paid subscription to Headspace
• Annual company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)
• Paid parental leave
• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
• Paid volunteer time
• Focus on your career growth:
• Development Dollars
• Leadership development
• Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
• Travel Discounts
• Employee Resource Groups
• 5 weeks paid vacation
• Private health & dental insurance
• Income protection and life assurance
• Employee Assistance Program - including 24/7 GP & free legal advice
• Pension plan contributions
• Discounted gym membership
• Bike2Work
• Season ticket loan
• Social events & Thursday happy hours
• Free lunch 2 days per week
• Work Environment & Flexibility
• At OpenTable, we pride ourselves on fostering a global and dynamic work environment. As a team member with us, you will benefit from a schedule tailored to accommodate a global workforce operating across multiple time zones. While the majority of your responsibilities may align with conventional business hours, there will be instances where you are expected to manage communications - via calls, Slack messages, or emails - outside of regular working hours to effectively collaborate with international colleagues, respond to restaurant partners, and/or address urgent matters. OpenTable will always abide by and consider local laws and regulations.
• Inclusion
• We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can thrive. We know the best ideas come when we bring different voices to the table, so we're building a team as dynamic as the diners and restaurants we serve—and fostering a culture where everyone feels welcome to be themselves.
• If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, or on the job, we’re here to support you. Please reach out to your recruiter to request any accommodations.