Senior Staff Accountant

About Tripadvisor 

The Tripadvisor Group connects people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world’s most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), include a portfolio of travel brands and businesses, including Tripadvisor, Viator, and TheFork.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working with large datasets, has a passion for financial systems, and combines strong accounting knowledge with analytical problem-solving. You’ll work cross-functionally with Finance, Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to improve processes, strengthen financial controls, and support scalable finance operations.

Location: Oxford UK

This role is a hybrid position that requires 1 day per week in our Oxford office.

What You'll Do:

• Support daily and month-end Order-to-Cash accounting processes across multiple products and payment platforms.
• Perform high-volume data reconciliations across financial systems, investigating and resolving discrepancies to ensure financial accuracy and completeness.
• Apply accounting principles to analyse transactional activity, prepare reconciliations, and support accurate financial reporting.
• Partner with Finance Systems, Engineering, Product, Sales Operations, FP&A, and Customer Operations to resolve accounting and billing issues and improve business processes.
• Support finance system enhancements, user acceptance testing (UAT), and implementation of new processes and system improvements.
• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, variance analysis, and other month-end close activities.
• Document, maintain, and improve financial processes and internal controls.
• Support internal and external audits by preparing supporting documentation and responding to audit requests.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve the efficiency and scalability of finance operations.
• Other general accounting projects and month-end close work as assigned

Skills & Experience:

• 2+ years of experience in accounting, finance operations, financial systems, or a related role.
• Experience working with ERP platforms such as Workday and CRM systems such as Salesforce.
• Experience supporting B2C Order-to-Cash processes in a high-volume transaction environment.
• Experience with SQL, BigQuery, Power Query, Alteryx, or other data analysis and automation tools.
• Experience participating in finance systems implementations, process automation, or continuous improvement initiatives.
• Experience supporting audits and maintaining strong financial controls.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools to improve efficiency, quality, and decision-making in day-to-day work.
• Proven ability to operate effectively with a global-first mindset 
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Good understanding of accounting principles and financial reporting.
• Experience supporting high-volume transactional finance or Order-to-Cash processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate complex data issues.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including PivotTables, XLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH, complex formulas, and working with large datasets.
• Strong systems aptitude and an interest in financial systems and process improvement.
• Excellent organisational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

What we are looking for:

• Curiosity and enthusiasm for financial systems, technology, and continuous process improvement.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify trends, investigate root causes, and recommend solutions.
• A collaborative approach with the ability to build strong relationships across technical and non-technical teams.
• A proactive mindset with a desire to improve processes through automation and data-driven decision making.
• High levels of integrity, accountability, and ownership.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new systems, tools, and business processes.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation packages (routinely benchmarked against the latest industry data), including base salary and annual bonuses
• “Work your way” with flexibility to suit your lifestyle. Tripadvisor Group takes a remote-friendly approach to collaboration across a worldwide team, with the option to join on-site as often as you’d like or as required by your team.
• Flexible schedule. Work-life balance is ingrained in our culture by design. Trust and accountability make it work.
• Donation matching. Give back? Give more! We match qualifying charitable donations annually.
• Tuition assistance. Want to level up your career? We love to hear it! Receive annual support for qualified programs.
• Lifestyle benefit. An annual benefit to spend on yourself. Use it on travel, wellness, or whatever suits you.
• Travel perks. We believe that travel is employee development, so we provide discounts and more.
• Employee assistance program. We’re here for you with resources and programs to help you through life’s challenges.
• Health benefits. We offer great coverage and competitive premiums.
• Generous referral scheme. Help us grow and be rewarded with generous awards for referring successful candidates.

 Our Cultural Pillars:

Traveler first

We exist to create value for our customer, the traveler. We enable our suppliers and partners to unlock this value. Their collective behaviors and insights are what drives us. 

Execution is our edge

We act fast, experiment, learn from failure, iterate, and improve the solutions of tomorrow across every aspect of our business. Our execution is agile, data-driven, prioritised, and built to scale. We assume no problem is someone else’s problem and finish what can be done today, knowing tomorrow will bring fresh challenges. 

We succeed together

The best outcomes are driven by empathic, humble, and diverse subject matter experts working toward shared goals. We collaborate relentlessly, challenge assumptions, give actionable feedback, and set each other up for success through empowered teams with a clear charter. We transparently take ownership of our growth, individually and as a team. We celebrate the quality of our effort, our learnings, and our collective achievements.

We strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all candidates. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please make sure to reach out to your individual recruiter or our team at AccessibleRecruiting@tripadvisor.com.

If you have any additional questions about careers at Tripadvisor you can email us at recruitment@tripadvisor.com. We have all the answers!