Position Summary
Lead and oversee franchise billing and accounting activities across multiple property portfolios, with responsibility for revenue-related journal entries, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, maintaining billing allocations and codes, and continuous process improvements within assigned deadlines.
Job Details
Work Setup: Work from home
Shift/Schedule: Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM U.S. Eastern Time
Holidays: U.S. corporate holiday calendar
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 associated 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 standardization and billing-process improvements and provide informal technical guidance to colleagues as needed.
- Attend monthly onboard meetings with stakeholders withing the organization 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 and strong Microsoft application experience including Excel skills for billing, financial analysis and large datasets.
- Strong attention to detail, critical forward thinking, contract interpretation, communication and ownership of recurring billing processes.
Nice to Have
- 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, franchise revenue allocations, and multi-brand or international billing.
- Experience performing month-over-month financial analysis, identifying trends and variances, and investigating significant fluctuations.