AP/AR Specialist
AirDNA
Accounting & Finance
Europe · Remote
Posted on Nov 9, 2024
AirDNA began with a big dream in a balmy California garage in 2015. Since then, the technology startup has grown into the leading provider of data and business intelligence for the billion-dollar travel and vacation rental industry—with offices in Denver and Barcelona.
Our self-serve AirDNA platform eliminates guesswork and equips Airbnb hosts with smart and competitive insights needed to succeed in the ever-evolving short-term rental landscape.
We also arm enterprise clients with customized reports and in-depth dashboards to ensure they can scale and invest strategically. These customers include hundreds of top financial institutions, real estate companies, vacation rental managers, and destination marketing organizations around the world.
We track the daily performance of over 10 million Airbnb and Vrbo properties across 120,000 global markets. We also collect data from over a million partner properties. This marriage of scraped and source data, enhanced by our proprietary algorithms, makes our solutions the most accurate and comprehensive in the world.
We’re firm believers that data isn’t the destination; it’s the starting point. The launchpad. The bedrock for any future-forward business.
The AirDNA Team
At AirDNA, we’re a team of data enthusiasts on a mission to empower our customers to smartly grow their businesses. And we’re on the hunt for a team lead who can take an agile approach to help us build sophisticated and scalable acquisition strategies. In short: Life is never boring here. And we genuinely live and breathe our company values: Happy, Hungry and Honest. People who are ready to exemplify these values are especially encouraged to apply. While location is important, we invite you to apply even if you are unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. We carefully consider every application, not just those that check off all the boxes.
The Role:
We’re looking for an AP/AR Specialist to join our Finance team! This is a key role that ensures the financial health of AirDNA by managing timely vendor payments, invoicing customers, and tracking all incoming and outgoing payments. You'll be instrumental in establishing best practices for AP/AR, helping our Finance team scale and mature.
Here's what you'll need to be successful:
- Financial and Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of how AP/AR impacts financial statements, tech savy approach and experience with finance software like Ramp, Stripe, and NetSuite.
- Organized & Detail-Oriented: Keen attention to detail with an ability to manage multiple priorities and stay organized. You’ll ensure accuracy in all tasks, from invoicing to transaction tracking.
- Problem-Solving Mindset: A proactive approach to solving billing and payment issues, able to resolve discrepancies with customers and vendors efficiently and professionally.
- Effective Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills to work with customers, vendors, and cross-functional teams. You’ll provide clear, accurate information promptly.
- Curiosity & Hungry to Learn: Intellectually curious, adaptable, and coachable, with a desire to learn and try new approaches in a dynamic environment.
- Team Player and Collaborative: Enjoys working across departments to improve operational efficiencies and accuracy, with a commitment to meeting deadlines and supporting team goals.
- Autonomy: High ability to work independently, manage responsibilities, and own outcomes.
Here's what you'll get to do:
- Process and manage vendor invoices and payments in a timely manner.
- Generate and send customer invoices, ensuring timely payments.
- Collaborate with Sales to ensure closed deals are correctly invoiced and payments are collected.
- Resolve billing discrepancies with customers and vendors and manage the AP/AR email inboxes.
- Support Finance by implementing and maintaining the finance tech stack for transaction processing and accounting.
- Work with the Finance team to optimize and standardize processes.
- Take on additional related projects to support team goals as needed.
Here's what you can expect from us:
- Competitive salary
- Company performance bonus
- 36 holidays per year (prorated on start date)
- Annual continuing education stipend $1,000
- Language lessons with Yolk Academy
- Individual growth plan to progress in the role
- Talented international team and a vibrant work environment
- Bottom-up management: we listen to your ideas and implement them
Hiring Processs:
- First stage: Online interview with the People Team (30min)
- Second stage: Online meeting with Hiring Manager + Peers (30min)
- Third stage: Quick online chat with our Controller (15min)
- Ideal start date: November
The AirDNA Team
We’re a tight-knit group of engineers, scientists, and creatives that is driven to empower the next generation of shared economy entrepreneurs. In short: Life is never boring here. And we genuinely live and breathe our company values: Be Curious, Be Customer-Obsessed, Take Action, Act with Ownership, and Enjoy the Ride. People who are ready to exemplify these values are especially encouraged to apply.
AirDNA seeks to attract the best-qualified candidates who support the mission, vision and values of the company and those who respect and promote excellence through diversity. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, physical or mental disability, marital, familial or parental status, genetic information, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected classification. The company complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and prohibits unlawful harassment based on any of the aforementioned protected classes at every location in which the company operates. This applies to all terms, conditions and privileges of employment including but not limited to: hiring, assessments, probation, placement, benefits, promotion, demotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, training and development, social and recreational programs, education assistance and retirement.
We are committed to making our application process and workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. Upon request, AirDNA will reasonably accommodate applicants so they can participate in the application process unless doing so would create an undue hardship to AirDNA or a threat to these individuals, others in the workplace or the company as a whole. To request accommodation, please email compliance@airdna.co. Please allow for 24 hours to process your request.
By applying for the above position, you will confirm that you have reviewed and agreed to our Data Privacy Notice for Applicants.