VP of Accounting
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<h4 data-ghq-card-content-type="SMALL_HEADING">🌍 <strong data-ghq-card-content-type="BOLD">Can you help us change the world?<br></strong></h4>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" data-ghq-card-content-type="paragraph">It’s true. At Mews, we dream big. As a Hotel Tech unicorn valued at $2.5b, we’re propelling new-generation cloud technology within global hospitality. With our industry-leading property management solution<strong data-stringify-type="bold">,</strong> we’re enabling the world’s most revolutionary hospitality brands to accelerate their digital transformation.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" data-ghq-card-content-type="paragraph">We’re on the lookout for ambitious, tenacious and passionate people who want to join the next generation of innovators and disrupt the hospitality industry with us. Sound good so far? Keep reading and tumble down the Mews rabbit hole... 🐇</p>
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<h4 data-ghq-card-content-type="SMALL_HEADING">🧑🏻💻 About the role</h4>
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<p style="text-align: justify;" data-ghq-card-content-type="paragraph">First things first: you want to know what you’re actually applying for. It’s impossible to capture every nuance of a role – especially at a rapidly growing company like Mews – but if we had to distill it down to a job description (which we do because this is a job description), it would be this:</p>
</div></div><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Mews is at a significant stage of its growth – building the financial infrastructure, reporting standards and compliance programmes that a scaled, global business needs. The accounting function is central to that, and it needs a leader who has been here before.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">This role leads the accounting organisation at Mews: controlling and reporting, AP and tax, technical accounting, payroll and, soon, accounts receivable. The teams are based primarily in Prague, technically strong, and highly motivated. What they're missing is a leader who can answer hard accounting questions, close the books faster, and help them understand what their roles look like as the business continues to scale.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">This isn't a steady-state role. Mews operates across 32 entities, has a SOX programme underway, and is building toward the reporting standards and compliance posture of a public-ready business. There is real work to do – and genuine career upside for the person who does it. </p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">✅ Your mission, should you choose to accept it:</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Lead the accounting function and build a public-ready finance organisation:</p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own the end-to-end accounting organisation: controlling and reporting, accounting and tax, technical accounting and payroll.</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Drive readiness across SOX, PCAOB and SEC reporting standards, and US GAAP adoption – building the compliance posture a scaled business needs</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Reduce month-end close from day 8–10 to business day 5</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Lead the transition to Coupa and a PO-first procurement model, going live September 2026</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Build bench strength in US GAAP and SOX – currently one specialist in each area</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Bring AI-native thinking to transform manual processes across the function</li>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Act as a strategic partner to the leadership team and accounting org:</p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Help the Prague team answer difficult questions about where accounting is going and what their roles look like as the business scales</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Manage upwards as well as downwards – influencing leadership behaviour is a real part of this job</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Work cross-functionally; accounting silos are not what this business needs right now</li>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">🤝️ You'll be a great fit if you bring a few of the below with you:</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Deep technical accounting expertise, public company experience, and the judgement to build for scale:</p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">You have worked in or led accounting at a US-listed public company – you understand what SEC, PCAOB and SOX compliance looks like in practice</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Strong US GAAP knowledge is non-negotiable; dual US GAAP and IFRS is ideal</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Hands-on SOX compliance experience, including designing or owning a SOX programme</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">A track record of transforming accounting teams – automating, restructuring, raising the bar</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience with compact, multi-entity accounting functions; familiarity with complex consolidation</li>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">AI fluency, with a genuine appetite for re-thinking how accounting works:</p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">AI has changed how you work, not just how fast; you see where it can replace manual processes, not just assist with them</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">You can point to specific automation or workflow improvements you've driven in a finance context</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">You are comfortable stress-testing your own assumptions about what accounting needs to look like – and helping a team do the same</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Familiarity with modern finance tooling; exposure to Business Central, OneStream or Workiva is a plus</li>
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<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">A clear and credible communicator who leads through expertise, not hierarchy:</p>
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<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Humility, cross-functional instinct, and willingness to work with others are as important as technical depth</li>
<li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Comfortable working with ambiguity while maintaining clarity and momentum for the tea</li>
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<p>Our preference is to hire in the UK, one of our EU entities, East Coast US or East Coast Canada<strong data-start="263" data-end="353"><br>If based in the US you must be based in one of the following states:</strong> Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><span style="font-size: 32px;"><strong>Pay Transparency at Mews</strong></span></p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">Salary ranges are provided in good faith and reflect current market conditions and internal pay structures. Final compensation may be adjusted based on funding, budget constraints, or exceptional candidate qualifications, but will remain within reasonable proximity to the stated range.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">This salary disclosure is provided in compliance with applicable pay transparency legislation. We are committed to equal pay practices and prohibit salary history inquiries during our recruitment process.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]">If the location you're applying from wasn't originally advertised for this role, salary range information is available upon request at any point during the application/interview process - your recruiter will be able to help.</p>
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