Senior Finance Analyst, Commercial Finance

Job title:

Senior Finance Analyst, Commercial Finance

Company

Expedia

Job description

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.Introduction to the team:An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Commercial Finance team supporting the TAAP division of Expedia Private Label Solutions. TAAP (Travel Agency Affiliate Program) is Expedia’s online booking tool that serves thousands of travel advisors across the world. Significant investment has recently been made into multiple product launches and enhancements in TAAP, resulting in a truly exciting period of high growth for the division.This is a critical role, reporting to the Director of Commercial Finance and providing daily support to the Senior Manager, Commercial Finance.The successful candidate will be a key business partner to the regional sales teams located in AMER, EMEA and APAC, providing key insights and helping the team to unlock a range of commercial opportunities. The role requires someone who is productive, proactive, influential and dynamic with the ability to add significant value across the business!In this role you will:

• Financial modelling, review and tracking of short-term & long term incentives and key partner deals; making recommendations to the sales team and assisting with multiple rounds of negotiations
• Calculate incentive payments annually and ad-hoc as needed
• Produce detailed quarterly forecasting of GBV, Commissions, sales costs and marketing spend
• Review, approve and produce reporting on promotional agency tier upgrades weekly
• Review and approve Deferred Payment credit limit requests weekly
• Produce weekly trading report, leading weekly discussions with Sales to ensure market context & insights are captured in commentary for distribution at an Executive level
• Produce monthly profitability reporting, highlighting key trends and areas of opportunity & risk
• Use BI tools to improve and standardise reporting to Sales & wider EPS teams to drive greater accountability and insight
• Core business partner to TAAP sales team, using commercial analysis to help shape strategies for key markets
• Support TAAP Marketing & Loyalty teams, through budget management, business casing opportunities, analyzing and making recommendations on various campaigns
• Help to develop and implement improved reporting, processes and controls to help scale the TAAP business
• Foster highly collaborative relationships across TAAP and support the wider finance team to meet key deliverables as necessary
• Perform ad-hoc analysis to support regional and global commercial projects and initiatives as well as deep-dives into specific topics to support the growth of the business

Experience and Qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Very strong Excel financial modelling skills and extensive experience working with large data sets
• Knowledge of BI tools (e.g Looker, Tableau) and data extraction via SQL will be highly beneficial
• Ability to present data & insights in a visually compelling format to finance and non-finance audiences
• Strong qualitative and quantitative financial skills
• Great attention to detail
• Experience in building complex models for both ongoing analysis and financial projections
• Demonstrated understanding of financials and budgeting processes
• Experience implementing effective controls and processes
• Able to lead and influence decisions across various internal functions
• Uses good judgment and makes decisions as necessary
• Extremely organized with the ability to work on and manage multiple projects within tight timelines

• 5+ years work experience in a similar analytical role
• Bachelors degree, 2:1 or above (or equivalent) and strong academic background
• Proven ability to actively manage workload; deliver to deadlines and against rapidly changing priorities
• A self-starter with proactive ‘can-do’ work ethic and strong initiative to identify current and potential problems and determine the best solution
• Someone who is great at working independently and as part of a team; takes ownership of tasks & projects and drives them to completion
• Solid business acumen and strong commercial instincts
• Someone who thrives in large, global, fast paced organisations

Accommodation requestsIf you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the .We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.Expedia Group’s family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is .Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:06:04 GMT

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