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Kasa seeks a passionate and driven people leader to join us as the Head of Accounting and Financial Reporting. You should have a deep understanding of hotel management agreement reporting standards (USALI, GAAP), lease accounting, GAAP reporting, and a CPA License is strongly preferred. If you thrive in dynamic, tech-driven environments and have a track record of success leading hospitality accounting teams, join us to implement scalable processes and solutions for our reporting functions and play a pivotal role in Kasa’s success!

The Role

Your Impact

• Improve Property-Level Reporting Scalability: Kasa operates in a centralized fashion - significantly more efficient than traditional hospitality companies and with scalable systems. You will be responsible for ensuring that our systems and processes become ever more scalable, ensuring reliable and accurate reporting as we grow, with limited need for additional resources.
• Communicate with Key Stakeholders: Summarize company financial performance to our investors and leadership team on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. Synthesize the information by surfacing the most impactful results as well as the areas of financial performance that can impact future strategy and decision-making.
• Thought Leadership: Innovate new ways to report and analyze property-level performance and deal structures to maximize the operating profit Kasa delivers to its partners and better inform business decisions. Inspire cross-functional understanding of financial stewardship plus drive technological innovation to maximize company-wide accounting accuracy.
• Improve Efficiency and Automation: Leverage new technologies to maximize financial performance and improve the speed of reconciliations, monthly close, and financial overview to our investors and partners.
• Inspire Finance Team to Strive for More: Act as an inspirational leader to encourage more empowerment amongst finance team members to continue improving their role as critical thought leaders within the broader organization.

Qualifications

• Requirement: At least 12 years of experience leading accounting/reporting teams in the Hotel industry
• Requirement: Significant experience with hotel management agreement reporting standards (USALI and GAAP), lease accounting, and familiarity with ownership structures common in the commercial real estate industry
• Requirement: Experience with corporate company-level reporting, including GAAP financial reporting, equity accounting, and corporate KPI analysis.
• Nice to have: CPA license 
• Nice to have: Experience working with product/tech teams to develop creative solutions to legacy accounting system and/or process blockers
• Nice to have: Experience using Netsuite, Adaptive Insights (Workday), SQL or Looker.
• Nice to have: Experience crafting new reporting and reconciliation processes for complex customer sales
• Nice to have: Public company and/or venture-backed company reporting experience
• Nice to have: Fluent in Spanish (frequent interaction with Kasa Mexico team)
• Key Values: Highest degree of integrity, energized by complex problem solving, thinking outside the box, willing to “roll up your sleeves”, empathetic leader, and confident communicator.

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Benefits

• 🌏 Remote Work: With flexibility as a core value, and over three-quarters of the team working remotely, Kasa employees are able to work from anywhere!

• ✈ Kasa Travel Credit: We love to travel! Kasa employees get an allowance of free stays with us in any of our locations, plus a discount on any night for friends and family.

• 💰 The Pay: The starting base pay range for this role is set based on multiple considerations including business needs, market demands, talent availability, experience, and unique skills and attributes. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for equity, bonus, perks, benefits, and Kasa Travel Credits.

• 📈 Generous Stock Option Plan: At Kasa, our compensation philosophy is to offer a total compensation package that over-indexes on equity to encourage our team to think like owners (by being owners) and benefit from the growth in value that our collective hard work creates. 

• 🙌 Flexible PTO: Full-time exempt Kasa employees are encouraged to take time off as they need and see fit, ensuring that it’s not disruptive to their work.

• 📱 Cell phone reimbursement: We reimburse a portion of your monthly cell phone bill to say thanks for using your personal phone during the workday.

• 📈 401(k) Plan: As you invest in yourself and your future, Kasa invests in you too.

• 🩺 Health Coverage: We’ve invested in comprehensive health insurance options to help when you need it most, including a company-sponsored plan with fertility coverage.

• ⭐ Other Perks: Qualifying full-time roles are eligible for a wi-fi stipend, home office stipend, and more!