Director of Accounting

TourRadar is a Series D, venture-backed Adventure Booking Platform disrupting a $200 billion industry. Revolutionizing how multi-day adventures are booked, we provide Operators with a platform that helps them manage, market and sell their organised adventures to travellers directly (B2C) or via distribution partners (B2B2C) worldwide.

Traditionally, booking an organised tour was a tedious and time-consuming process. Where will I stay? What activities will I do? What meals am I going to have? What operator can I trust? TourRadar makes booking multi-day adventures seamless and timely, partnering with 2,500+ operators to offer more than 50,000+ adventures in 160+ countries. Founded in 2010, TourRadar was the first to transition multi-day tours to an online marketplace, making them the leader in the industry. In 2021, TourRadar further revolutionised the industry by introducing the Adventure Booking Platform, connecting travellers, operators, and travel agents to organised adventures through one platform.

With 30+ different nationalities in our team and with offices in Europe, North America and Australia, we work to deliver the best possible booking experience. Launched in 2010, we proudly develop and innovate exceptional talent and we are looking to scale our team.

We are currently seeking a Director of Accounting to join our team in Vienna to support our rapid expansion. The target of the role is to maintain and develop financial reporting, audit, tax and treasury within the business working closely with senior stakeholders. The Director of Accounting leads a team of 10 people and reports into the Chief Financial Officer.

The TopCo and consolidated accounts of the business are in Austria, however there are also operating companies in Australia and Canada/USA with cash flow, tax and transfer pricing requirements in each jurisdiction.

Tasks

**Your responsibilities**:

- Working closely with the CFO, FP&A Manager and Group Accounting Specialist to guide finance initiatives and report financial results for the business
- Preparation of monthly management accounts, which are prepared within 7 business days after month end and presented to the leadership team. This includes reviewing accruals, performing an analytical review and communicating results to the leadership team
- Preparation of year-end consolidated financial statements using IFRS and AT GAAP, annual audit and correspondence with auditors and advisors. The closing of the consolidated accounts is finalised by the end of March in the following year
- Monitor the financial position of the group against existing funding agreements and regulations (for example going concern) and flag any potential issues to the CFO
- Investor support and answering questions on an ad-hoc basis
- Completion of tax filings (yearly and monthly) for all companies of the TourRadar group across three countries, Austria, Canada, Australia. Tax lodgements include income tax returns, VAT/GST (or equivalent), CIT, EU Sales listing, fringe benefits tax and others
- Ensure the available tax grants and government subsidies are utilized by the TourRadar Group, creating the necessary filings in collaboration with the respective consultants
- Oversight of transfer pricing policies applied within the group and correspondence with advisors
- Implementation and monitoring of accounting processes on the TourRadar platform to ensure they are documented and kept up to date
- Team management for 5 direct reports, including the financial accounting team, AP/AR and other specialists within the team. This also covers managing staff motivation, communication within the team and knowledge sharing
- Managing cash management. The business runs with many trading currencies and reports in EUR, USD, AUD and CAD. Managing the cash reserves of the group both from a working capital and trust cash perspective is required, along with optimising transaction costs and available cash
- Providing support to the leadership team for all accounting related questions
- Relationship management with advisors, banks and other capital providers and providing supporting data when needed
- Assisting with product improvements by working with the product team to communicate finance efficiencies for the product team to incorporate in the organisation road map

**Requirements**:
**Who you are**:

- Strong communicator with the ability to present accounting concepts to a varied audience
- A bilingual speaker with English and fluency in business German
- Self-starter with a strong process orientation when approaching daily work as well as problem-solving opportunities
- Strong analytical capabilities and experience with: evaluating ambiguous data, running reports, performing analysis and creating presentation materials
- Ability to perform advanced spreadsheet modelling and maintenance in Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets
- Ability to quickly learn data-mining processes
- Proven ability and the credibility to persuade and influe