Accounting Manager Costs
About The Position
The Accounting Manager, Costs manages the day-to-day close and reporting for AmaWaterways’ costs, ensuring operating costs are accurately recorded, properly accrued, correctly tagged and clearly understood. The role leads the team accounting for costs and partners with Operations and FP&A to explain results and improve cost visibility. It requires working with imperfect information while helping the team identify and implement changes that produce quality, decision-useful cost data. The position also oversees cost accounting processes, accounts payable activities in partnership with the payables supervisor, staff development, internal controls and audit support. It partners with FP&A and Operations Finance on budget-to-actual reporting and champions the use of AI-enabled tools to improve accruals, reconciliations and cost analysis.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
- CPA required.
- At least 5 years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 2 years supervising staff.
- Strong experience in accounting for costs, accruals and account reconciliation.
- US GAAP and IFRS experience required.
- Hands-on NetSuite experience required.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to explain results to non-finance partners.
- Interest in and practical experience with AI enablement, including the ability to apply AI-enabled tools and processes to improve finance work.
- Comfort operating with imperfect information and exercising sound judgment while data quality improves.
- High-energy, self-driven and collaborative approach, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, growing company with private equity-style expectations for pace, accountability and results.
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing offshore or outsourced team members.
- Public accounting experience.
- Experience in travel, hospitality or consumer-facing industries.
Responsibilities
- Manage monthly close activities for costs, including accruals, prepaids, reconciliations and cost allocations.
- Ensure costs are accurately and completely tagged to itineraries and departments.
- Implement invoice routing and review policies and procedures.
- Review and approve cost-related journal entries and account reconciliations prepared by the team.
- Maintain cost mapping to financial statement categories and ensure consistent treatment across ships and entities.
- Provide cost analysis and variance explanations for ship operating, hotel, culinary and other operating costs.
- Oversee accounts payable processing in partnership with the payables supervisor, including accrual of unbilled costs.
- Support intercompany charging and cost recharges between entities.
- Supervise and develop accounting staff, including offshore team members.
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies and internal controls and support audit requests.
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes and reduce manual effort in accounting for costs.
- Partner with FP&A and Operations Finance on budget-to-actual reporting.
- Champion AI enablement in accounting for costs by applying AI-enabled tools to accruals, reconciliations and cost analysis.
- Identify and help implement changes needed to deliver quality, decision-useful cost data.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
