Director, Accounting

About This Opportunity

We are representing a global hospitality technology organization based in London that is entering an exciting period of transformation and growth. This Director, Accounting role offers full ownership of the numbers and the scope to shape the future of a high-performing finance function.

Reporting directly to the VP, Controllership, you will hold complete accountability for the Global General Ledger across the full P&L and Balance Sheet. You'll lead a team of accounting professionals and drive a forward-thinking improvement agenda that scales the function through hands-on ownership, critical thinking, and continuous development beyond process compliance.

This is a hybrid role based in London, requiring 2 days per week in the office.

Responsibilities

Own the Global General Ledger & Financial Close

• Maintain ultimate accountability for the Global GL under US GAAP, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely close of all entities worldwide
• Build and lead a scalable end-to-end close operating model; set standards, drive consistency, and coach the team to execute with rigour
• Oversee quality of balance sheet reconciliations and close deliverables; identify and resolve issues promptly with sound accounting and commercial judgement
• Ensure estimates, accruals, and accounting positions accurately reflect the business trajectory
• Deliver authoritative monthly and quarterly P&L and balance sheet flux analysis, clearly articulating commercial and accounting drivers, risks, opportunities, and material one-off items

Apply and Uphold Technical Accounting Standards

• Serve as the senior escalation point for accounting matters; research, document, and defend positions on complex issues
• Provide technical accounting support to business growth and commercial deals, including revenue recognition and other judgement-intensive areas
• Ground all accounting in US GAAP principles with technical rigour
• Evaluate accounting treatment of commercial arrangements with technical precision and commercial awareness
• Apply critical thinking to every judgement call

Drive Continuous Improvement

• Own the improvement agenda—simplify, standardise, and automate close processes, leveraging AI and enabling technology
• Partner across Finance, Enterprise Systems and AI Enablement on systems transformation
• Define and embed quality standards, governance frameworks, and documentation requirements across a geographically dispersed team
• Maintain clear ownership and consistent execution across multiple time zones (US West Coast, US East Coast, UK, India)

Lead & Develop the Team

• Coach and develop a team of accounting professionals, building technical capability and succession depth
• Create a high-performing team culture grounded in clear expectations, mutual accountability, meaningful development, and direct communication

Partner Across the Organisation

• Build strong relationships with Finance and Commercial business partners; bring commercial perspective to accounting judgements
• Represent the Accounting function with confidence and credibility at senior management level

What We're Looking For

Qualifications & Experience

• Fully-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA or equivalent)
• Significant post-qualification experience in financial accounting leadership, with full GL accountability and ownership of the end-to-end close cycle across a complex, multi-entity, global business
• Proven track record of leading and developing teams of qualified accountants and people managers

Skills & Ways of Working

• Deep technical grounding in US GAAP, with confidence to take and defend positions on complex matters
• Numbers-first mindset with strong ownership of accuracy—credible at senior stakeholder level
• Natural change leader with an improvement mindset who builds the case, brings the team along, and delivers lasting change at pace
• High-performing people leader, invested in growth and outcomes
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, global environments, fluent across both strategic and detailed work
• Ability to manage communications across multiple time zones, including occasional work outside conventional business hours

How We Work with You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai will guide you through the entire process. When you apply through our platform, a dedicated recruiter will screen your application and discuss the opportunity with you in detail. If there's a strong mutual fit, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please note that you should not contact the client directly—all communication will be coordinated through Get A Job.ai to ensure the best experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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