Financial analyst in fintech

The Booking.com FP&A team is expanding and has exciting career opportunities opening up in several teams and across different levels. Below is a general description of job responsibilities of a Senior 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 Senior Financial Analyst to be part of the dynamic and fast-paced Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team.

• Proactively identify, set up and maintain processes with business stakeholders that support the different financial planning cycles and further improve the (strategic) decision making processes.
• Provide regular reporting in an insightful and actionable way to the BU/departmental leadership teams in order to promote ownership and accountability.
• Create meaningful and actionable variance analysis comparing financial results with all relevant comparison points.
• Be a proactive business partner who identifies opportunities and risk through advanced analytics including AI tools
• Support business decision making, by providing reliable financial data and insights, put into the context of Booking’s business operations.
• Engage with business stakeholders to support objective setting and assess the financial impact of these.
• Work typically on projects that are complex with a large scope and high impact on the organization's business.
• Take a lead role in coaching and improving the performance of other team members. Coaching on a broad range of topics on both soft and hard skills.
• Work almost independently on a variety of complex topics with limited supervision. Can set priorities independently.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance or other related field (preferred);
• 5-8 years’ experience in a similar role;
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills;
• Strong advanced analytical skills including experience with using AI tools
• Experienced business partner with a strong commercial mindset
• High attention to detail and ability to connect the dots and reconcile multiple data sources;
• 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, OneStream, 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
• 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