Senior Financial Analyst Commercial Programs & Excellence

At , our mission is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. Through our products, partners and people is how we do it. There's a whole planet of possibilities out there, and we bring it all together, in one place.

We offer a dynamic, motivating and sophisticated work environment. A culture that is open, innovative and performance orientated. Our scale and scope, commitment to people and high standards of integrity make  a great place to work.

If you would like to be part of a truly international company and finance team, if you think you can make a difference, have a closer look at this job opening.

Moving forward with the strategy of the connected trip and the current organization structure, the FP&A team is at the forefront of implementing these changes to allow for the increasing complexity of decision making and transparency to happen in a timely manner. We offer a dynamic, motivating and sophisticated work environment. A culture that is open, innovative and performance orientated. Our scale and scope, commitment to people and high standards of integrity make  a great place to work.

In this Senior Financial Analyst, Commercial Programs & Excellence role you will be part of a dynamic, international and fast-paced team, working in the scope of the entire commercial organisation (all BUs and all Verticals). This position is based in Manchester, UK and will report to the Senior Manager of FP&A, Commercial Programs & Excellence.

This position offers the opportunity to drive financial decision making within  You will be required to provide strong financial and analytical support to your business unit (BU) or department’s stakeholders. You will have to bridge what the data tell you and how that could help decision-making on a wide array of topics. You will be supporting the planning and forecasting cycles for both financial and operational business metrics.

This includes revenues, expenses and other important KPIs; it also includes non-financial metrics and driver metrics of performance. You will also be involved in reporting versus budget and forecast and support on ad-hoc analyses whenever there is a need from the business.

Specific to this Senior Financial Analyst, Commercial Programs & Excellence role, you will work in the Commercial Programs & Excellence team in FP&A. This team is being repositioned to support the entire FP&A organisation, not just Accommodations, which means reporting lines now shift under the leadership of SD Trips/Marketplace umbrella.

This team will drive forward FP&A’s and ’s cross unit commercial insights capabilities and excellence, advance our modeling and forecasting capabilities (e.g. Accomm-Forecast-Revamp that has been kicked off), scalable use of Data and AI, and cross functional decision governance. This team will take ownership of cross commercial decision making processes like the commercial board, decision-making-excellence like the ROI framework for all verticals, and processes related to revenue model business cases from templates to tracking and reporting.

In order to achieve these expanded objectives and to help drive forward our Future Fit Vision for FP&A, this team will be increased in size.

For more detail around this newly formed team and the intended initial scope, please see the Commercial Programs & Excellence - Team Charter. However, due to the continuous evolution of the organisation, the tasks and duties of the team and roles within it will evolve over time.

Moreover, as a Lead Financial Analyst. You will be actively contributing to wider team-excellence, and likely asked to lead and contribute to transformation and innovation initiatives across the whole of FP&A.

Due to the continuous evolution of the organization, the tasks and duties of this role will evolve over time. You will be keen to develop and grow within the role and challenge yourself to take on additional projects and responsibilities as they present themselves. This role requires a dynamic and proactive person with strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Support with forecasting, variance…