Accounts Payable Lead
Hopper
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About the job
We are looking for a solution and detail-oriented, self-motivated Accounts Payable Lead to support Hopper’s fast-paced and global growth. You should be ready to be hands-on and to handle the day-to-day operations while being able to find innovative solutions to complex challenges to the AP and AR functions. The perfect candidate will thrive on making processes more efficient and scalable while ensuring the highest level of quality.
What would your day-to-day look like
- Take ownership over the full Accounts Payable/Receivable process
- Ensure transactions are recorded in accordance with GAAP and provide support during financial audits
- Identify improvement opportunities (e.g. automation) to maximize time spent on value added tasks.
- Periodically reviewing, tracking and reporting the performance of Accounts Payable team with external benchmarking, simplify the processes and improve team's performance
- Manage system approval flows and automated batches of invoices pushed to our ERP system for payments
- Support new partner onboardings and partner maintenance (i.e. default set-ups on GL coding, tax base, approval flows etc.)
- Compliance with statutory requirements including issuance of 1099s to vendors, collecting W9 and W8 as required for processing payments to vendors
- Liaison with suppliers and internal employees regarding invoices and status of payments.
- Collaborate with other departments to streamline processes and address issues
An ideal candidate has:
- A degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics or other quantitative discipline
- Minimum of 5 years in a similar position
- Excellent communication skills in English. French and Spanish are an asset
- Basic understanding of accounting principles
- Strong data Analytics skills
- Ability to go into the details to perform analysis and identify/develop scalable solutions to improve day-to-day operations
- Able to handle a high volume of transactions/data and discover trends, patterns and insights that can be shared with the relevant teams
- Entrepreneurial spirit, ability to recognize problems and find solutions autonomously
- Technology/Travel industry experience is an asset
- Expertise or strong desire to learn SQL and in general, using queries and programming as a tool to scale and solve problems
- Experience with multinational entities, currencies and intercompany transactions
- Experience with Coupa software and SOX control environment is an asset
Perks of working with us:
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Carrot Cash travel stipend
- WeWork All Access Pass OR Work-from-home stipend
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business
- Open communication with management and company leadership
- Small, dynamic teams = massive impact
- 100% employer paid medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance plans
- Access to a 401K plan
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MORE ABOUT HOPPER
At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the world’s best — and most fun — place to book travel. By leveraging massive amounts of data, advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to help customers spend less and travel better. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America, the app has been downloaded nearly 80 million times and continues to gain market share globally.
Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:
- Hopper sold around $4 billion in travel and travel fintech in 2022, up nearly 3X over 2021. In 2022, Hopper increased its revenue 2.5X year-over year.
- The company’s bespoke fintech products, such as Flight Disruption Guarantee and Price Freeze, now represent 30-40% of Hopper’s total app revenue.
- Given the success of its fintech products, Hopper launched a B2B initiative called Hopper Cloud in late 2021. Through this partnership program, any travel provider (airlines, hotels, banks, travel agencies, etc.) can integrate and seamlessly distribute Hopper’s fintech or travel inventory. As its first Hopper Cloud partnership,
- Hopper partnered with Capital One to co-develop Capital One Travel, a new travel portal designed specifically for cardholders.
- Recognized as one of the world’s most innovative companies by Fast Company four years in a row, Hopper has been downloaded over 80 million times and continues to have millions of new installs each month.
- Hopper has raised over $700 million USD of private capital and is backed by some of the largest institutional investors and banks in the world. Hopper is primed to continue its acceleration as the world’s fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace.
Come take off with us!
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