ABOUT BOOKING.COM
Established in 1996 in Amsterdam, Booking.com has grown from a small Dutch start-up to one of the largest ecommerce companies in the world. Booking.com is the largest business within Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) and accounts for the vast majority of Booking Holdings' total revenue. Booking Holdings is a leading Fortune 500 e-commerce conglomerate with a market cap of roughly $75 billion (2022). Booking.com currently employs approximately 10,000 employees in 120+ offices in 70 countries worldwide.
With a mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world, Booking.com invests in digital technology that helps take the friction out of travel. Booking.com connects travelers with the world's largest selection of incredible places to stay, including everything from apartments, vacation homes, and family-run B&Bs to 5-star luxury resorts and even tree houses. The Booking.com website and mobile apps are available in over 40 languages, offer more than 28,984,513 total reported listings, and cover 142,259 destinations in 229 countries worldwide. Each day, more than 1,550,000 room nights are reserved on its platform. So whether travelling for business or leisure, customers can instantly book their ideal accommodation quickly and easily, without booking fees and backed up by its promise to price match. Via the customer experience team, customers can reach Booking.com 24/7 for assistance and support in over 40 languages, any time of the day or night.
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ABOUT THE POSITION OF SENIOR DIRECTOR FP&A
The purpose of FP&A is to provide 'Decision Making Insights' to the right person at the right time - whether this be for big strategic decisions via business cases or tactical day-to-day steering through performance reporting & transparency. FP&A's stakeholders are Director level above with Operational Support being handled with embedded teams throughout the organization.
This role leads a team of Business Partners focusing on one or multiple business units. By ensuring transparency of performance metrics the team will help steer the Business Unit on both tactical day-to-day matters:
- Supporting strategy making by providing deep scenario analysis/modeling and translating the strategy into a tangible Business Plan;
- Providing in-depth business insights by forward-looking analysis, and by translating variances in financial and non-financial KPIs and driving any needed course correction;
- Initiating and leads FP&A process improvement projects to drive our FP&A vision and engage in E2E cross functional excellence initiatives or company must do/priorities;
- Responsible for ensuring documentation, SOX compliance, and controls under FP&A scope and compliance to company policies and standards;
- Develop a world-class team that achieves quarterly and annual goals, display the core competencies for success in Finance/ FP&A and actively engage in self-development that improves the overall team proficiency.
SCOPE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Providing financial analysis, forecasting and budgeting & strategic support to the General Managers/SVP for their global scope of business activities;
- Preparing & consolidating financial statements in scope of role, with relevant trade performance, metrics, including cost trends, Product profitability, insights into horizontal programs (with compare to business case, on time, in scope and within budget);
- Improving financial planning processes to drive increased efficiency;
- Supporting investment decisions by providing return on investment/net present value/etc., calculations and applies appropriate benchmarks to maximize returns;
- Building a best in class FP&A team, highly engaged and empowered working seamlessly across our locations, manages proactively succession plans, while coaching and encouraging talent development of the global FP&A team (and direct reports). Oversees a direct team for the commercial verticals (Ground, Flights, Insurance, Attraction) both in UK and in Netherlands and the newly created MarketPlace unit (incl. cross selling and horizontals) to support connected trip activities. He or she works closely with Corporate Performance and BPO-Transformations pillar Leads and their teams across NL and UK to create an FP&A organization fit for the future. This implies one way of working, aligned objectives and deliverables to uplift our process, tooling and data capabilities for all of our business units;
- Working with your department(s) to prepare targets underpinning, budgets and consolidate them into one overall yearly/quarterly targets/ budget;
- Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models and detailed forecasts of the departments / units year/3 year plan;
- Examining and evaluating the cost-efficiency of the business units, in light of what percentage of the company's financial resources each department consumes and its impact on the bottom-line, on a direct basis but also with various anchoring contributions to other business units. (Fully loaded Financials);
- Preparing internal reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making to ensure they are the best use of the company's working capital, by looking at return on investment (ROI) and comparisons with other scenarios that utilize our cash;
- Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, and performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward with regards to its operating model and partner distribution strategy;
- Improving and ensuring data governance/integrity on key metrics;
- Preparing internal reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making;
- Determining which distribution product/channels combination in which regions generate the biggest "net contribution";
- Collaborating with FP&A colleagues on company wide financial models and detailed forecasts of the company's year/3 year plan;
- Finance Leader with broad management experience across several functional areas or businesses, or concentrated knowledge of a particular discipline;
- Master degree or equivalent;
- 12+ years of relevant working experience;
- Strong managerial skills with the ability to lead a team that is dealing with tough stakeholders, tight deadlines, and big impact projects;
- Excellent corporate agility to collaborate and build relationships at all levels of the organization;
- Ability to drive change and adapt quickly in an agile environment;
- Thorough knowledge of how Booking.com operates and where it is moving;
- Proven ability to marry financial constructs with business knowledge and work effectively with business, partners, as well as with general management and functional teams;
- Clear communication, stakeholder,- change management and influencing skills;
- Capable of managing different level of stakeholders and working under time constraints;
- Result driven, active team player and customer focused;
- Change driven, proactive and strong focus on improvements;
- Marketplace experience ;
- MBA - or CMA/CPA.
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