Accountant, Total Compensation

The Community You Will Join: 

Join Airbnb’s dynamic Global Compensation Accounting team, a supportive group committed to operational excellence and enabling Airbnb’s rapid global expansion. You’ll work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, collaborating closely with colleagues across Finance, Legal, Talent, Payroll Operations, Equity Administration, and Benefits. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact while building partnerships across both local and international teams.

The Difference You Will Make:

In this role, you’ll ensure the integrity and accuracy of Airbnb’s compensation, payroll, and benefits accounting on a global scale. By reconciling accounts, supporting financial closes, and ensuring compliance, you’ll contribute to reliable and timely financial statements. Success in this role is measured by accurate and SOX-compliant reporting, seamless cross-functional collaboration, and successful delivery of ad hoc projects and process improvements.

A Typical Day: 

• Perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including preparing journal entries and conducting detailed balance sheet and P&L analyses.
• Reconcile compensation-related general ledger accounts and create supporting schedules for internal and external reporting.
• Collaborate with global Payroll Operations, Equity Administration, Benefits, Finance, Legal, and Talent teams to ensure accurate financial statements.
• Support management with special projects, ad hoc analyses, and process improvements, leveraging technology wherever possible.
• Ensure SOX compliance and accurate GAAP reporting through diligent monitoring of key controls.
• Participate in transitions and knowledge transfers to monitor critical deliverables, sharing expertise with global partners.

Your Expertise:

• Minimum 3 years’ relevant experience in accounting or finance; public accounting experience preferred.
• BA/BS in Accounting or Finance; CPA strongly preferred.
• Track record of delivering accurate work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and hands-on experience with ERP systems such as Workday and/or Oracle.
• Strong communication, analytical, organizational, and critical thinking skills.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently, form conclusions, and present findings to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience thriving as a team player and collaborating effectively with both local and international partners.

Your Location:

This position is US - Remote Eligible. The role may include occasional work at an Airbnb office or attendance at offsites, as agreed to with your manager. While the position is Remote Eligible, you must live in a state where Airbnb, Inc. has a registered entity. Click here for the up-to-date list of excluded states. This list is continuously evolving, so please check back with us if the state you live in is on the exclusion list  If your position is employed by another Airbnb entity, your recruiter will inform you what states you are eligible to work from.

Our Commitment To Inclusion & Belonging:

Airbnb is committed to working with the broadest talent pool possible. We believe diverse ideas foster innovation and engagement, and allow us to attract creatively-led people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.

We strive to also provide a disability inclusive application and interview process. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at: reasonableaccommodations@airbnb.com. Please include your full name, the role you’re applying for and the accommodation necessary to assist you with the recruiting process. 

We ask that you only reach out to us if you are a candidate whose disability prevents you from being able to complete our online application.

Offices: United States