Role Description:
You will take ownership for the financial planning process, with a clear emphasis on bridging innovative business strategies into solid financial plans.
Furthermore, there is a focus on analyzing and reporting the performance of Marketplace - Connected Trips Benefits, with a close eye on investment and cross sell performance as well as highlighting risk, opportunities and deviations from expectations.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
- Drive both the short and long-term business planning process to create solid financial plans
- Guide decision making by building business cases and scenario analysis to make recommendations on the best approach for the business
- Create meaningful and actionable variance analysis comparing financial results with all relevant comparison points
- Provide regular reporting in an insightful and actionable way to the BU/departmental leadership teams in order to promote ownership and accountability
- Support business analysis and financials deep dives when required
- Support business decision making, by providing reliable financial data and insights, put into the context of Booking’s business operations
- Perform regular monitoring and tracking of performance, ensuring risks, opportunities and deviations from expectations are highlighted to your stakeholders and investigated to explain the cause, as well as recommendations for actions required
- Communicate potential opportunities and risks versus submitted forecast/guidance
- Supporting Strategic decision making by modeling different options to allow for ROI driven decision making
Qualifications & skills:
- Level of Education : Bachelor Degree
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills
- Strong numerical skills and commercial awareness
- Knowledge of accounting concepts
- Able to effectively build strong relationships with direct stakeholders across all levels of the organization
- Organized, proactive, independent and results oriented
- Comfortable working with cross-functional teams and in a flexible environment
- Adaptable to changing priorities
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) in English
- Experience of using Google Sheets
- Experience of using SQL & Hadoop desirable
Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:
Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit
Application Process:
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Let’s go places together:
- This role does not come with relocation assistance
Pre-Employment Screening
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