Senior Accountant – Payment Accounting

Senior Accountant – PBB Payment Accounting Month Close The Role The Senior Accountant is responsible for the accurate, timely, and controlled execution of accounting activities within the Payment Accounting Month Close team supporting Payments by Booking (PbB). The role owns a defined accounting scope across payment-related processes and legal entities, ensuring that financial information is complete, accurate, auditable, and compliant with US GAAP, applicable regulations, and internal reporting requirements.

The role combines hands-on month-end close execution with analytical review, control ownership, issue resolution, and continuous improvement. It requires close collaboration with Payments Operations, Finance, Product, Engineering, Treasury, Tax, Legal Entity Controllers, and other stakeholders across the organization. About Us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere.

But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world. Key responsibilities Own the end-to-end month-end close activities for an assigned PbB accounting scope, including close planning, execution, review, issue tracking, and timely completion in line with reporting calendars.

Perform monthly account reconciliations and prepare, review, and post journal entries, including accruals, prepayments, reclassifications, intercompany transactions, settlements, and other payment-accounting adjustments. Maintain complete and accurate general ledger balances and ensure that payment-related transactions are correctly recorded, supported, and reconciled to sub-ledgers, operational data, payment platforms, and other relevant source systems.

Take ownership of complex payment accounting balances, including transactional liabilities, partner and customer-related balances, receivables, revenue, accruals, prepayments, cash and settlement accounts, and intercompany positions. Investigate reconciling items, aged balances, unexpected movements, and data variances; identify root causes and drive resolution with the relevant business, operational, and technical stakeholders.

Prepare detailed supporting analyses, balance sheet reconciliations, flux explanations, and close documentation that provide a clear audit trail from source data through to the general ledger and financial statements. Perform monthly profit and loss and balance sheet reviews for the assigned scope and legal entities, highlighting material or unusual movements and ensuring appropriate follow-up actions.

Analyze, compile, and validate financial information for management reporting, including balance sheet, profit and loss, cash flow, liability, and other financial or regulatory reporting requirements. Execute and evidence assigned SOx and other key financial controls, ensuring that control activities are completed on time, are properly documented, and address identified deficiencies. Support internal and external audits, statutory reporting, tax-related requests, and other compliance activities by providing accurate schedules, reconciliations, explanations, and supporting documentation.

Act as a subject matter expert for payment accounting and month-close topics within the assigned area, translating operational and technical process details into accounting requirements and actionable recommendations. Partner with process owners and cross-functional stakeholders to assess the accounting impact of new payment flows, system changes, product developments, and process improvements. Identify opportunities to improve data quality, reconciliation coverage, standardization, automation, control effectiveness, and close-cycle efficiency; support implementation of sustainabl