Travel Agency Bookkeeper - Cards, Amadeus, Collections (Sun-Thu)

DO NOT APPLY ON THIS PAGE. Open the link at the bottom and record. A resume sent here will not be read.

We are a travel office in Israel. We book flights, hotels, cars, and apartments. Ticketing already has a desk. This seat is the money: cards, banks, Amadeus commissions, customer collections, and Amex points rebates.

If you have only done payroll, expenses, or "I enter receipts in QuickBooks," do not apply. You must have already worked the money side of a travel agency (or airline / OTA / GDS desk).

The work week follows our office: Sunday to Thursday, about 2:00 PM to 10:00 PM Philippine time. You work Sundays. Your weekend is Friday and Saturday.

WHAT YOU WILL MANAGE

1. CREDIT CARDS
Look through every card charge. Confirm it is accurate and that there is a customer payment (or a known open balance) against it. A charge with no matching file is an open item the same day, not "we'll see."

2. AMADEUS — AMERICAN AND ISRAELI
We run two Amadeus worlds. You check both:

• Did we receive the commission from the company?
• Did the customer actually pay us?

A ticket that flew with no commission, or a commission with no customer money, is your catch.

3. BANK ACCOUNTS
Look through the bank accounts and make sure it all adds up. Weekly rec. A stranger can follow the trail. Differences are not rounded away.

4. AMEX TRAVEL + POINTS TICKETS
When we buy a ticket with points through Amex Travel, you track the whole loop:

• The points seller got paid
• The ticket was issued
• The rebate came back

How it works here: a $1,000 ticket is 100,000 points. Then 35 percent is supposed to be refunded. That rebate can take up to 2 weeks. When nobody is watching it, it eats hours and we lose money. You watch it. You chase it. You do not let a rebate sit.

5. COLLECTIONS
Customers who owe us. You follow up until the balance is paid, promised with a date, or flagged to the owner with a reason.

6. POINTS COLLECTION
Same energy as collections, for points: rebates, missing deposits, sellers not paid, 35 percent that did not post. You run after it.

7. OPEN BALANCES
You send the open-balance list. Who owes what, on which file, since when. The sales desk should not have to ask you for this.

8. COST DATA
Pull cost data out of the system. What we paid the airline, the hotel, the car company, the points seller, the card.

9. COST ANALYSIS
Not just pull the number. Say what things actually cost us after rebate, after commission, after fees. So we know which bookings made money.

10. CHEAPER SERVICES
Look at the services we use (car rentals and the rest) and find ways to get them cheaper. Bring a better rate or a better vendor, with the math.

YOU DO NOT OWN

• Setting guest prices or giving discounts
• Issuing tickets (we already have an Amadeus issuer)
• Moving money without a written owner approval
• Hoping the 35 percent rebate "shows up"

REQUIREMENTS

• You have done travel-agency money work as your actual job: cards vs bookings, customer balances, supplier costs. Name the agency.
• You have opened Amadeus (or another GDS) to check a file, a commission, or a sales report. You do not need to issue tickets. You do need to read the money.
• You have personally finished bank recs. Every week. Without being chased.
• You have chased money: collections, missing rebates, or "the vendor said they paid us." You follow up.
• Fluent English, spoken and written. You will email open balances. We will hear you before we meet you.
• Reliable computer, fast internet, backup internet, backup power
• Two references from travel-finance, agency back-office, or collections work

A PLUS

• Amex Travel, pay-with-points, or any points desk where a rebate posted days later and you were the one who noticed
• Both ARC (US) and BSP (Israel / international) commission reports
• QuickBooks Online or Xero
• You have cut a car-rental or hotel cost by shopping it, not by guessing

HOW WE HIRE
You will record your voice on a real money scenario and send a redacted sample of your own work. We do not interview people we have not heard.

HOW TO APPLY
Open this link and complete the recording form (about 20 minutes):
---------- /philippines/travel-bookkeeper

If you already recorded, send a message here with your full name and the word RECORDED so we can match you. That is the only message that gets a reply.