Senior Director, Finance

Expedia Group•Seattle, WA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success. Why Join Us? To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win. We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us. Senior Director, Finance In this role, you will: Provide input into the organization’s business model and operations to drive larger business decisions that advance the organization’s mission and enhance its reputation. Drive project/process resources and requirements that results in the right policies, practices, trends, and information that shape the organization. Implement solutions, cognizant of financial and operational factors that work across business units/functions resulting in improved financial performance. Set organization-wide requirements related to financial modeling. Set industry standard for complex financial modeling, enabling cutting-edge analysis. Improve the company’s reporting and modelling tools based on best practice to enable advanced financial modeling. Guide organization-wide resource utilization to force simplicity, maximize performance, and value add; monitors the organization’s operational efficiency. Partner with key stakeholders to build organization-wide improvements to impact the quality of products, services, and processes. Ensure that complex technical communications are crafted with nontechnical audiences in mind; coach others on the best way to simplify terminology and use visual aids to describe concepts. Ensure the right processes and practices are in place to support the generation of communications that allow for clear and consistent comprehension of complex and technical information across the business. Challenge the organization to identify new and upcoming trends in finance and the economic market impacting own business in order to remain competitive and enhance the competitive advantage of the organization. Use expertise in financial reporting to establish auditing standards and procedures for the preparation and analysis of financial statements. Ensure the organization’s financial systems are producing the best Return On Investment (ROI) and operating efficiently and effectively, implementing new, efficient systems as needed. Guide and advise stakeholders on system use and implications of different applications. Determine the quality assurance process and strategy across financial systems, ensuring reviews are meeting business unit and organization standards. Establish key organizational performance indicators and metrics to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness. Partner with business leaders to explore and understand their business objectives and challenges, and guides discussions to explore potential solutions. Use expertise in financial analysis to present and communicate financial results to senior executives and influence them in developing new strategies to enhance the organization’s financial performance. Guide the financial forecast process with business partners. This position is not eligible for relocation benefits or assistance. May work remotely or from home 2 days/week; must live within commuting distance of Expedia office. Position requires travel; 25% domestically and 25% Internationally.

Requirements

Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Business, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering or related field followed by 8 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or in a finance-related occupation.
eCommerce
Understanding of two sided marketplace dynamics
Financial modeling and forecasting
Data analysis
Have worked in an international company with operations across US and Internationally
Revenue & Cost Accounting

Responsibilities

Provide input into the organization’s business model and operations to drive larger business decisions that advance the organization’s mission and enhance its reputation.
Drive project/process resources and requirements that results in the right policies, practices, trends, and information that shape the organization.
Implement solutions, cognizant of financial and operational factors that work across business units/functions resulting in improved financial performance.
Set organization-wide requirements related to financial modeling.
Set industry standard for complex financial modeling, enabling cutting-edge analysis.
Improve the company’s reporting and modelling tools based on best practice to enable advanced financial modeling.
Guide organization-wide resource utilization to force simplicity, maximize performance, and value add; monitors the organization’s operational efficiency.
Partner with key stakeholders to build organization-wide improvements to impact the quality of products, services, and processes.
Ensure that complex technical communications are crafted with nontechnical audiences in mind; coach others on the best way to simplify terminology and use visual aids to describe concepts.
Ensure the right processes and practices are in place to support the generation of communications that allow for clear and consistent comprehension of complex and technical information across the business.
Challenge the organization to identify new and upcoming trends in finance and the economic market impacting own business in order to remain competitive and enhance the competitive advantage of the organization.
Use expertise in financial reporting to establish auditing standards and procedures for the preparation and analysis of financial statements.
Ensure the organization’s financial systems are producing the best Return On Investment (ROI) and operating efficiently and effectively, implementing new, efficient systems as needed.
Guide and advise stakeholders on system use and implications of different applications.
Determine the quality assurance process and strategy across financial systems, ensuring reviews are meeting business unit and organization standards.
Establish key organizational performance indicators and metrics to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Partner with business leaders to explore and understand their business objectives and challenges, and guides discussions to explore potential solutions.
Use expertise in financial analysis to present and communicate financial results to senior executives and influence them in developing new strategies to enhance the organization’s financial performance.
Guide the financial forecast process with business partners.