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We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (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.
At Expedia Group, we are looking for individuals who embody our dynamic, collaborative, and inclusive spirit of our company. We act as one team, working towards a common goal: to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes.
GFT is a Finance strategy and solutions team that partners with EG Product and Technology teams to ensure Finance involvement, review, and support for all high-priority initiatives. The team represents Finance, Controls, Risk and Compliance teams by assessing operational Finance impacts to any new initiative, ensuring that EG systems support any changes, and provide continuous reporting accuracy and SOX compliance. GFT additionally serves to assess and manage this cross-functional work across Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Fraud, Billing, Payments, and FP&A. GFT's mission is to enable EG to run and expand the business by supporting initiatives that generate new streams of revenue, projects resulting in cost-savings, product enhancements, and new regulatory requirements. GFT acts as the voice of Finance in these initiatives ensuring compliance and no impact to the business for any project releases.
What you'll do:
Own and manage lifecycle activities from beginning to end (planning, requirements gathering, technology team partnerships, UAT planning and performance, project closing, and stakeholder engagement) for multiple projects simultaneously
Work on automation projects and lead the coordination of designing processes and tools to make financial statement processes easier and more accurate
Be an empowered, impactful decision maker who drives the direction of a project to completion
Operate as a valued consultant to partner with many different fp&a stakeholder teams across Expedia Group
Support planning and coordination of a program and its activities and ensure implementation of policies and practices
Maintain budget and track expenditures/transactions
Manage communications through media relations, social media etc
Help build positive relations within the team and external parties and schedule and organize meetings/events and maintain agenda
Ensure technology is used correctly for all operations (video conferencing, presentations etc.)
Prepare paperwork and order material and keep updated records and create reports or proposals
Who you are:
A minimum of 7+ years of recent and relevant experience
Extensive professional experience working with financial processes, project management, finance requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities
Sufficient finance experience required to help the project launch team identify and incorporate the necessary financial reporting and internal control elements into the systems or tools that are developed to support new business activities
Experience with FP&A EPM systems such as Hyperion
Experience with PMO software such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, and SharePoint
Exposure to cloud-based technology such as AWS
Passion for delivering process improvement across the finance organization
A deep sense of ownership, and the ability to identify process improvement opportunities, drive positive change across the organization, and enhance partnerships between FP&A and various finance and IT groups
Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, managing through ambiguity and complexity, and demonstrating an ability to support multiple, simultaneous, project launches at any one time
Experience with travel technology preferred
The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $155,000.00 to $217,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $248,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
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