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Turo is the world’s largest car sharing marketplace where you can book the perfect car for wherever you’re going from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France. Whether you're flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, Turo puts you in the driver's seat of an extraordinary selection of cars shared by local hosts.

About the team:

We are seeking a Senior Accountant to be part of our small but mighty claims and insurance accounting team who owns the claims and insurance accounting across our global business. This is a super fast-paced, dynamic and critical part of our business; this role will partner closely with teams across the business including FP&A, data analytics and insurance operations teams to ensure our financials accurately reflect our insurance costs and exposures. On top of that, this role will work closely with accounting, finance and insurance leadership to continue to uplevel and develop processes as our business continues to optimize, mature and further expand internationally. This role will report directly to the Senior Manager of Accounting and will also work closely with our Senior Director of Accounting - it is a highly visible and critical role, which requires adept problem solving and critical thinking, as well as strong Excel skills and a passion for data analysis.

As a member of the accounting team at Turo you will have the opportunity to work with smart, humble, and down to earth people across the organization solving interesting problems that are disrupting an entire industry. You will develop your professional career at Turo because you will be tasked with preparing complex accruals, working with large datasets, and building processes that support the company’s rapid growth, as well as working closely with senior leaders. The ideal candidate has strong Microsoft Excel skills, thrives in a fast paced environment, enjoys collaborating with cross functional team members, is a great communicator, and loves to solve problems in a dynamic, high growth environment.

What You’ll Do:

• As a Senior Accountant you’ll prepare journal entries and account reconciliations, investigate and resolve discrepancies as needed.
• Prepare financial statement variance analysis and ensure documentation has meaningful explanations for fluctuations and identify anomalies.
• Ensure physical damage monthly accrual is accurate and assumptions to support the data are valid, make sense and documented in detail so they can be explained to our internal stakeholders and auditors.
• Develop new processes and find opportunities to improve the speed, accuracy and efficiency of the month end close.
• Lead critical accounting projects that improve the accuracy of our data for internal and external reporting.
• Improve existing processes, suggest and implement improvements to scale and automate procedures.
• Be the key point of contact for audit PBC requests specifically related to claims and insurance.
• Experience working with large datasets, complex models and building reconciliations that are easy to follow, auditable and meet GAAP reporting requirements.

Your Profile:

• 4+ years of experience in general accounting.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance and/or Business.
• CPA with big four audit experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with NetSuite or another large-scale accounting system.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel & modeling skills (i.e. Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, Indexmatch and working with large data sets).

Bonus if you have:

• High attention to detail, critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills. Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• Self starter with the ability to form conclusions and present findings.
• Comfortable navigating uncertainty, embraces change and approaches work with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to work independently.
• Curious, wants to learn, aspires to build and create processes in a fast-growing organization.
• Prioritizes the development of clean, accurate and auditable working papers.

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