Financial Analyst - Strategic Partnerships

at  Bookingcom

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance or other related field (preferred) and 2-4 years’ experience in a similar role;
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills with a high attention to detail and ability to connect the dots and reconcile multiple data sources, must have advanced knowledge of Excel, and ideally experience with SQL, data mining, Microsoft VBA and reporting tools.
• Strong communication skills and ability to present to different audiences, demonstrating the ability to understand, work with and proactively advise and influence senior business partners;
• Self-driven mentality, proactively seeking to find solutions to problems and providing the best analytics possible to key decision makers alongside demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and drive projects to completion.
• Strong team-working skills with ability to work independently and also comfortable working in cross-functional teams and working in an unstructured environment;

ROLE DESCRIPTION:

The Booking.com FP&A team has an exciting career opportunity open in the Strategic Partnerships FP&A team. Below is a general description of job responsibilities of a Financial Analyst at Booking.com:
This position offers the opportunity to drive financial decision making within Booking.com. We are currently looking for an entrepreneurial 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 the Senior Manager of FP&A for Strategic Partnerships . You will be working in our office in Amsterdam.
You will be required to provide strong financial and analytical support to your business unit (BU) or department’s stakeholders. You will have to bridge what the data tells you and how that could help decision-making on a wide array of topics.
You will be supporting the Strategic Partnerships department as a key finance business partner, supporting decision making and also supporting on ad-hoc analyses whenever there is a need from the business.
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.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Monitor and analyze our trading performance across the department, develop insights, and support trading analysis processes within the business and with other marketing channel and support with forecasting, variance analysis and reporting of financial performance;
• Contribute to robust, scalable and insightful reporting of the business unit or department’s key metrics and ownership of reporting, calculation & forecasting of Non Standard Costs ensuring completeness and accuracy in the accruals process.
• Coordinating with stakeholders & business control the Operational Expenditure (OPEX) across Partnerships department including owning the reporting of actuals, budgeting & forecasting.
• Provide financial and analytical support into business cases & deal evaluation for the department
• Support a variety of stakeholder groups to deliver projects to improve the profitability and efficiency of the department.
• Ownership of group wide reporting to the Booking holdings group along with any cross brand activities.
• Continuously seek ways to improve and optimize the existing reporting to fit with evolving requests from senior management