Financial analyst in strategic partnerships

Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world. The Booking.com FP&A team has an exciting career opportunity open in the Strategic Partnerships FP&A team. 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.

• Monitor and analyze our trading performance across the department, develop insights, and support trading analysis processes within the business and with other marketing channels
• Delivery of financial results on an ongoing basis to the BPD corporate FP&A team
• Support with forecasting, variance analysis and reporting of financial performance for SP/BPD;
• Contribute to robust, scalable and insightful reporting of the business unit or department’s key metrics;
• 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.
• Adhoc analytical support and scenario modelling for the Commercial, Product, Tech and Ops business owners along with wider team support projects
• Continuously seek ways to improve and optimize the existing reporting to fit with evolving requests from senior management.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance or other related field (preferred);
• 5+ 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, Microsoft VBA 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