Associate Manager of Accounting, KAYAK
Consolidation & Reporting
$105-115k
+ This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus
3 days a week in office
Travel search engine
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Travel search engine
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$105-115k
+ This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience in consolidation, close processes, and financial reporting within a multi-entity environment
- Demonstrated experience with fluctuation analysis, variance investigation, and financial commentary
- Systems-oriented mindset with experience using consolidation and close tools such as OneStream and FloQast
- ERP experience required; NetSuite preferred
- Understanding of intercompany accounting, foreign currency, and global reporting considerations
- Proven ability to improve processes and support scalable finance operations
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate financial data into actionable insights
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities
- Self-starter with a proactive, curious, and solutions-oriented mindset
What the job involves
- We are seeking an Associate Manager, Accounting (Consolidation & Reporting) to oversee brand-level financial reporting within a complex, multi-entity environment. This role sits at the center of the close and reporting process, with responsibility for consolidation, intercompany accounting, and the integrity of financial data flowing into corporate reporting
- This is not a traditional close role. The ideal candidate understands how financial data moves across systems and entities, brings strong analytical and financial storytelling capabilities, and continuously seeks opportunities to improve scalability through automation and process optimization
- This role partners closely with Accounting, FP&A, Tax, and Enterprise Systems to deliver accurate, timely, and scalable reporting while helping evolve and modernize the close process
- Consolidation, Reporting & Financial Integrity
- Execute the end-to-end consolidation and close process across global entities, including foreign currency translation within NetSuite and OneStream
- Ensure accuracy and integrity of financial data from subledger through consolidation and reporting
- Support adherence to Parent Company timelines, including a five-business-day close cycle
- Identify and resolve consolidation issues impacting reporting quality and timing
- Maintain audit-ready financials and support external reporting requirements
- Fluctuation Analysis & Financial Insights
- Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual fluctuation analysis across the P&L and balance sheet
- Partner cross-functionally to understand key business and accounting drivers
- Deliver clear, concise commentary explaining variances, trends, and performance drivers
- Facilitate close review discussions and highlight key risks, trends, and callouts
- Translate financial results into meaningful business insight
- Systems, Data & Process Optimization
- Develop deep knowledge of ERP structures, entity hierarchies, and financial data flows
- Support consolidation system integrity, including mappings and data alignment within OneStream
- Administer close and reconciliation tools such as FloQast to support scalable operations
- Investigate issues at both the system and data level and drive sustainable solutions
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and accelerate the close process
- Support initiatives focused on automation, AI enablement, reporting efficiency, and data quality improvements
- Intercompany & Balance Sheet Oversight
- Oversee intercompany accounting processes, including eliminations, reconciliations, and variance analysis
- Coordinate with offshore resources to ensure timely and accurate deliverables
- Drive process improvements and support system transitions, including BlackLine initiatives
- Review and support balance sheet reconciliations across key accounts
- Cross-Functional Partnership & Team Leadership
- Serve as a key liaison across Brand, Parent Company, and cross-functional finance teams
- Partner with FP&A, Tax, GL, and Financial Operations to improve upstream reporting inputs and data quality
- Lead and develop a direct report while promoting accountability, prioritization, and high-quality execution
- Build documentation, standardized processes, and team knowledge around systems and reporting best practices
- Communicate effectively across stakeholders with varying levels of technical expertise
- Bring structure, ownership, and clarity to evolving processes and areas of ambiguity
- What Success Looks Like:
- Owns both the integrity of the data and the story behind the numbers
- Transition processes from manual execution to scalable, automated workflows
- Identifies issues early and implements sustainable solutions
- Elevates reporting into insight that supports decision-making
- Strengthens processes, systems, and team capabilities over time
Our take
KAYAK is a travel agency and metasearch engine owned and operated by Booking Holdings. KAYAK processes over 6 billion queries across its platforms each year for travel information - as one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travellers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. It offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.
There’s been speculation over the years about online travel companies getting into the hotel business, and KAYAK is no exception. The company is expanding its hospitality offerings beyond its traditional hotel referral and booking services, but despite speculation through the 2020s, has stopped short of opening hotels under its own brand, preferring to partner with preexisting companies on their hotel tech.
Since being acquired by Booking Holdings, the global leader in online travel, in 2013, KAYAK has continued to expand and innovate, enhancing the travel experience for users all around the world. And now KAYAK manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. With the aim to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - it now operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
- Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
- Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
- Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
- Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
- Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms
Company HQ
East Side of Stamford, Stamford, CT
Leadership
Steve Hafner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Board Member of Trulia, Blade and SeatGeek and currently an Executive at OpenTable.
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