Senior Financial Analyst

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The Booking.com FP&A team is looking to hire a Senior Financial Analyst to join Accommodations FP&A team to support with new growth programs.

This position offers the opportunity to drive financial decision making for key company priorities. We are currently looking for an entrepreneurial Senior Financial Analyst to be part of the dynamic and fast-paced Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. In this role you will report to a Senior Manager of the Accommodations Business Unit FP&A team. You will be working in our office in Amsterdam.

You will be required to provide strong financial and analytical support to the program owners. You will have to bridge what the data tell you and how that could help decision-making on a wide array of topics. Such as marketing, pricing and supply strategy.

You will be supporting the planning and forecasting cycles for both financial and operational business metrics. This includes revenues, expenses and other important KPIs. You will also be responsible for providing regular actionable insights to senior leadership in order to inform them on operational and financial performance.

You will also be responsible for driving the implementation of these programs in FP&A data structures as well as in FP&A reporting and forecasting systems and processes. As well as taking lead in the consolidations of these programs into the overall BU reporting.

Due to the rapid and continuous growth of the organization, the tasks and duties of this role will evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and challenge yourself to take on additional projects and responsibilities as they present themselves.

Responsibilities

• Support with forecasting, variance analysis and reporting of financial performance;
• Business partner for strategic growth programs
• Lead FP&A implementation of new business models in FP&A processes, systems and reporting
• Drive further process and systems improvements in order to optimize the insights and speed at which these insights can be delivered.
• Target setting of financial and non financial KPI's and objectives;
• Drive consolidated BU reporting and processes
• Proactively deliver intelligence based on data to support and advise the FP&A team and/or business partners whenever necessary;
• Provide analytical support and contribute to strategic decision making;
• Continuously seek ways to improve and optimize the existing reporting to fit with evolving requests from senior management;
• Perform ad-hoc analysis, scenarios and benchmarking as needed.

• Bachelor's degree in Business/Finance or other related field (preferred);
• 5-7 years' experience in a similar role;
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills;
• High attention to detail and ability to connect the dots and reconcile multiple data sources;
• Strong communication skills and ability to present to different audiences;
• Self-driven mentality, proactively seeking to find solutions to problems and providing the best analytics possible to key decision makers
• Advanced knowledge of Excel;
• Experience with SQL, data mining and reporting tools;
• Ability to understand, work with and proactively advise and influence senior business partners;
• Sees the headlines or big picture whilst having attention for the details;
• Strong team-working skills with ability to work independently;
• Comfortable working in cross-functional teams and working in an unstructured environment;
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and drive projects to completion.

• 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

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• Detailed instructions on post-application requirements including any required application materials, deadlines, portfolios, coding challenges, or other assessments as defined by BU or department.

• Technical expert with a broad range of technical knowledge. Has experience Improving processes and automating tasks
• Ability to present findings in an effective, structured and actionable way to a wide set of audiences with varying levels of understanding
• Ability to explain complex problems, analyses and topics in concise, clear and simple terms
• Data processing and visualization skills (Excel, Hyperion, SQL, Tableau, etc.)
• Good level of understanding of (management) accounting concepts
• Ability to effectively build a relevant network in the organization and strong relationships with direct stakeholders across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to use the big picture as context for planning and decision making