Head of Accounting and Financial Reporting

Summary

Join Kasa as the Head of Accounting and Financial Reporting, a fully remote leadership role. You will lead corporate and property-level accounting teams, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting. This position requires modernizing the accounting function through automation, process refinement, and scalable solutions. You will drive strategic financial initiatives, communicate with key stakeholders, and inspire the finance team. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in hotel management agreement reporting, lease accounting, and GAAP reporting, along with strong leadership skills. Kasa offers a competitive compensation package including remote work flexibility, generous stock options, flexible PTO, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience leading accounting/reporting teams in the hotel or real estate industry
• 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
• Experience with corporate company-level reporting, including GAAP financial reporting, equity accounting, and corporate KPI analysis

Responsibilities

• Improve Property-Level Reporting Scalability: Ensure 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
• Reporting Accuracy & Timeliness: Accurate and timely reporting for our properties and corporate investors is critical to Kasa’s near and long-term success. You will have direct responsibility to ensure that we remain best-in-class for this critical function, including, but not limited to, corporate allocation decisions, new partnership structuring decision-making, KPI reporting, partner reporting mediums, and managing scalable reconciliation processes
• Team Management: Oversee and inspire a ~20 person team across the US and Mexico to produce top-tier financial reporting while maximizing reconciliation efficiency to achieve greater economies of scale as Kasa continues to grow
• Tax and Audit Improvements: Ensure SOC and audit compliance as Kasa continues to grow across multiple jurisdictions, agreement types and with various investment partners
• Partner and Cross-Functional Management: Oversee multiple external partnerships with tax, audit, real estate and legal firms across a wide range of financial reporting-related projects, as well as mentorship of property general managers and financial reporting managers on best practices, frequencies, and approaches to property owner financial reporting. Key internal stakeholders with frequent interaction with this role include regional general managers, real estate growth, sales and marketing, reservations and distributions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with product/tech teams to develop creative solutions to legacy accounting processes and excitement for disrupting the “status quo” of manual accounting processes
• CPA license
• Experience using Netsuite, Adaptive Insights (Workday), SQL or Looker
• Experience crafting new reporting and reconciliation processes for complex customer sales
• Public company and/or venture-backed company reporting experience
• Fluent in Spanish (frequent interaction with Kasa Mexico team)

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!