BookingCom Hiring for Finance Business Partner Job at Manchester, England Full Time

Finance Business Partner tripscorp

From our HQ in Manchester and hubs in London and Amsterdam our Trips Business Unit helps people get where they want to go, anywhere in the world. Whether customers want the freedom of a flight or car rental, the ease of a taxi or the economy of public transport, we make it all possible. Our team is passionate about helping people travel. They see challenges as opportunities. And they’re always ready for change.

Job Summary

In this role you are the finance business partner for the Commercial department of the cars vertical. You take full ownership for the financial planning and control cycle, whereby there is a clear emphasis on bridging innovative business strategies into solid financial plans. On the basis of business analysis and through building business cases, you proactively take the lead in advising stakeholders on their departments’ financial performance, expenses, FTE growth, and other business KPIs.

Furthermore, there is a focus on analyzing and reporting the performance of the respective area of responsibility – with a close eye on regular trading performance and highlighting risk, opportunities and deviations from expectations. In addition, the role requires the provision of strong strategic advisory and consulting input to the relevant business leaders.

Your responsibilities

• Drive both the short and long-term business planning process to create solid financial plans and targets for the commercial teams
• Identify what drives (financial) success for the different sub departments and develop measures for these drivers
• Create meaningful and actionable variance analysis comparing financial results with all relevant comparison points
• Perform regular monitoring and tracking of trading performance (Daily/Weekly/Monthly) ensuring risks, opportunities and deviations from expectations are highlighted to your stakeholders and investigated to explain the cause, as well as recommendations for actions required
• Provide regular reporting in an insightful and actionable way to the BU/departmental leadership teams in order to promote ownership and accountability
• Guide decision making by building business cases on a regular basis, including scenario analysis to make recommendations on the best approach for the business
• Partner with supplier management and revenue management teams to translate operational actions and decision making into financial objectives, as well as providing supportive financial advice, challenge, and actionable recommendations
• Identify cost optimization opportunities across the departments and lead and drive these projects to delivery in close cooperation with other Business Controllers, the Business departments and Procurement teams
• Support business decision making, by providing reliable financial data and insights, put into the context of Booking’s business operations

Your skills and experience

• Level of Education: Qualified Accountant or Bachelor Degree
• Years of relevant experience: Advanced knowledge (5 to 8 yrs)
• Experience working in an e-commerce environment
• Knowledge of accounting concepts and experience in financial planning
• Strong numerical skills and commercial awareness
• Able to effectively build a relevant network in the organization and strong relationships with direct stakeholders across all levels of the organization
• Comfortable working with cross-functional teams and in a flexible environment
• Financial modelling and analytical skills
• Organized, proactive and results oriented
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) in English
• Ability to work within a fast paced environment as part of team or on own initiative
• Advanced knowledge of Excel (Google Sheets desirable)
• Experience of using BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau
• Experience of using SQL & Hadoop desirable