VP of Accounting

🌍 Can you help us change the world?

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, we’re enabling the world’s most revolutionary hospitality brands to accelerate their digital transformation.

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... 🐇

🧑🏻‍💻 About the role

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:

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.

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.

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. 

✅ Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

Lead the accounting function and build a public-ready finance organisation:

• Own the end-to-end accounting organisation: controlling and reporting, accounting and tax, technical accounting and payroll.
• Drive readiness across SOX, PCAOB and SEC reporting standards, and US GAAP adoption – building the compliance posture a scaled business needs
• Reduce month-end close from day 8–10 to business day 5
• Lead the transition to Coupa and a PO-first procurement model, going live September 2026
• Build bench strength in US GAAP and SOX – currently one specialist in each area
• Bring AI-native thinking to transform manual processes across the function

Act as a strategic partner to the leadership team and accounting org:

• Help the Prague team answer difficult questions about where accounting is going and what their roles look like as the business scales
• Manage upwards as well as downwards – influencing leadership behaviour is a real part of this job
• Work cross-functionally; accounting silos are not what this business needs right now

🤝️ You'll be a great fit if you bring a few of the below with you:

Deep technical accounting expertise, public company experience, and the judgement to build for scale:

• 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
• Strong US GAAP knowledge is non-negotiable; dual US GAAP and IFRS is ideal
• Hands-on SOX compliance experience, including designing or owning a SOX programme
• A track record of transforming accounting teams – automating, restructuring, raising the bar
• Experience with compact, multi-entity accounting functions; familiarity with complex consolidation

AI fluency, with a genuine appetite for re-thinking how accounting works:

• AI has changed how you work, not just how fast; you see where it can replace manual processes, not just assist with them
• You can point to specific automation or workflow improvements you've driven in a finance context
• You are comfortable stress-testing your own assumptions about what accounting needs to look like – and helping a team do the same
• Familiarity with modern finance tooling; exposure to Business Central, OneStream or Workiva is a plus

A clear and credible communicator who leads through expertise, not hierarchy:

• Humility, cross-functional instinct, and willingness to work with others are as important as technical depth
• Comfortable working with ambiguity while maintaining clarity and momentum for the tea

Our preference is to hire in the UK, one of our EU entities, East Coast US or East Coast Canada
If based in the US you must be based in one of the following states: 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.