Staff Accountant

Rocket Travel is looking for a Staff Accountant to join our growing accounting team. This will be a 6 or 9 month contract. In this role, you’ll work closely with our team to facilitate general accounting duties related to month-end close, AP/AR processing, treasury function, and other ad-hoc requests. Web-savvy, energetic, and analytical individuals with a solid business/accounting background that are willing to be proactive and apply other skills and talents toward the company’s collective goals, are encouraged to apply.

Rocket Travel is a place where you:

• Work with a group of intrinsically motivated people with a track record for building successful new businesses from scratch.
• Embody curiosity, community, and accountability. We live and build products by these values every day. 
• Own decisions and take action that can be implemented in a matter of days (or hours).
• Get inspired and encouraged to vacation faster, with an annual vacation stipend.
• Receive a competitive compensation package, including bonus, 401k with match, flexible vacation time, maternity and paternity benefits, health, and dental insurance.
• Total Compensation is based on experience -  $31.25 - 46.63 hourly
• Can have a flexible work schedule. We have great offices in Chicago’s West Loop with a flexible hybrid work environment (2 days a week in the office). 
• Share your passion for travel with equally adventurous teammates. 
• Work within the largest online travel company in the world. Rocket Travel creates B2C and B2B2C travel products and is part of Booking Holdings (BKNG). We have many worldwide partners and a diversified business. Despite the world’s current situation, Booking Holdings has been rated the healthiest company in travel, and Rocket itself is already seeing travel demand surpass pre-pandemic levels

As a Staff Accountant at Rocket Travel, you will: 

• Assist in the monthly and year-end close process. This individual will prepare closing entries and complete the close task list in an accurate and timely manner.
• Oversee timely processing and reconciliation of invoices. This individual will perform the AP functions and ensure timely processing of payments.
• Support Treasury activities. This individual will prepare wire/ACH payments, create wire templates, and perform weekly cash reconciliations
• Prepare or review monthly account reconciliations for various B/S and P/L accounts and corresponding journal entries, depending on the complexity of the account.
• Generate invoices and account statements. This individual will aid in preparing AR invoices in a timely manner and follow-up on aging balances when necessary.
• Process employee expenses. This individual will work to ensure compliance with the company expense policy and approve expenses for timely reimbursement to employees. 
• Assist with company software capitalization policy. This person will work with teams across the company to ensure that timesheets are completed in order to ensure we capitalize software in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Be scrappy. We’re a small team and often wear many hats. Some projects may not be completely defined. This individual will take a resourceful approach to what’s needed and drive results.

About you:

• You have a positive attitude and willingness to work and communicate on a small team
• You display overall well-roundedness and attention to detail in order to pick up duties quickly with accuracy
• You show an analytic approach to problem solving and can make data-driven recommendations for improvement
• You have a business-related degree with a preference for Accounting; CPA is a plus
• You have relevant accounting experience at a minimum of 3-5 years
• You have a strong knowledge of Excel
• You’re familiar with our systems - Oracle and SQL experience is preferred

About Rocket Travel

We make travel more rewarding than anyone else 

Rocket Travel awards customers for booking travel through our products, allowing people to earn or use loyalty benefits from their favorite loyalty programs.

Our journey

We began in 2013 with the same goal of making travel even more rewarding. This started with our bespoke Rocketmiles website, earning travelers their favorite airline loyalty miles for hotel bookings, and every year since, we’ve advanced our goal.

We now partner with over 60 loyalty programs that travelers can choose from, we build unique partner-branded travel sites, we offer the ability to earn and redeem loyalty rewards, we sit within Booking Holdings—the most experienced Group of travel companies in the world—and we continually grow the number of ways that people can book travel through us, from stays to cars and more.



Travel constantly evolves, opening additional opportunities to create rewarding experiences, and we intend to be at the forefront of building and innovating on those for travelers worldwide.

A diverse and global team

Our teammates work across the globe, in person and remotely. We have offices in Chicago, NYC, Bangkok, Bogota, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Cebu. No matter where people work, our main team-building goal is to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We do that with a Diversity and Inclusion Committee, setting DEI hiring goals, investing in employee retention, and conducting regular team training that fosters collaboration and morale.

All of these efforts help ensure that we’re promoting a supportive workplace, where people are motivated to grow professionally and build rewarding travel experiences together. 

Note on general employment requirements

Candidates should be authorized to accept employment in the US from any employer, should be willing to start within three weeks of accepting an offer, and should be able to work the same daily working hours as our Chicago office.

A final word

If the idea of working within an environment that promotes accountability, curiosity, and community to build reward travel products sounds motivating to you, we would love to hear from you—even if you’re unable to meet 100% of the job requirements. We never expect people to have all of the answers, as long as they’re willing and able to learn and grow with us.