Role Description
Join a team of experienced analysts responsible for supporting Booking.com executives to make sound financial and strategic decisions for the APAC business.This role provides full finance support to business partners as well as offer scope for leadership of individual analytical projects.
The role expects analytical excellence and strategic thinking to drive business forward, ideal for a person with strong time management skills who is resourceful, self-motivated and enjoys working autonomously.
Working in a culturally diverse environment, your work should provide regional leadership with financial stewardship and analytical insights. You will develop a holistic understanding of Booking.com’s business drivers across the APAC region and will collaborate with various stakeholders who possess a diverse set of talents, providing in-depth understanding of a topic to decision makers and advising on creative data-driven solutions to unlock growth.
Due to the rapid and significant growth of Booking.com BV’s business and the regional organization, the tasks and expectations of this role will evolve over time. The role reports to the APAC Senior FPA Manager, and is based in our APAC Regional HQ - Booking.com (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
This role will support the FPA team based in Amsterdam in undertaking the following responsibilities:
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as a trusted financial and strategic advisor to business leaders;
- Develop forecasts and financial models to support budgeting, strategic planning, decision making processes & target setting;
- Monitor spend vs budget on APAC OPEX lines, optimize existing processes to drive optimal use of resources and drive the review cadence with business teams and other supporting functions (e.g. accounting & central FP&A);
- Provide actionable insights into growth drivers, costs, business metrics, market trends, and competitive landscape;
- Support business case development and milestone reviews for APAC commercial & operational opportunities, including opportunity sizing, business model assessment, and scenario modeling;
- Create insightful reports, dashboards, data sets, and analytical methodologies to enable effective decision making for business and finance stakeholders;
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis, financial modeling and benchmarking as needed to support the business;
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or other related field;
- 3+ years experience delivering robust financial and strategic analysis along with tangible business recommendations to senior leadership;
- Strong strategic thinking abilities, capable of zooming in on details and linking them to the broader business objectives;
- High level of curiosity, self-motivated, and pro-actively seeking to find solutions to the most impactful problems;
- Ability to listen, work with and proactively advise and challenge senior business partners;
- Ability to translate complex information into a clear narrative with actionable insights through compelling storytelling;
- 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.
- Experience with SQL manipulating complex datasets;
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and Financial Modeling;
- Knowledge of financial systems e.g. SAP, Onestream, Hyperion SmartView;
- We strongly encourage you to attach a cover letter citing your motivation for this role.