About Agoda
Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with more than 3.6 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 6,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.
Get to Know our Team:
The New Business Initiatives team of project managers is a critical driver of Agoda and Finance department's success, balancing innovation, and growth with smart risk management. It's a team that provides strategic insights to Agoda's business leaders in the pursuit of launching new initiatives in a sustainable and scalable manner, aims to provide world class execution for projects and serves as a vibrant learning ground for people, providing a pulse check on every strategic initiative Agoda pursues.
The Opportunity:
We are looking for a talented, results-oriented Finance Manager to join the Agoda finance team. You will have:
- A front row seat on key Agoda strategic initiatives
- Opportunity to drive implementation of those key initiatives with a Finance lens
- Partner with possibly the most diverse set of stakeholders of any department (IT, Product, Legal, Business teams, Marketing, Customer Services and more)
- Leverage your organizational skills combined with subject matter expertise to make an impact
- Drive Process Integration and automation: Lead initiatives to streamline and integrate financial processes across teams, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and alignment with organizational goals.
Successful candidates tend to have strong presence, possess some sort of Finance expertise, are articulate, self-starters who are comfortable working in environments defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. In addition, good performers in this role are organized, possess effective interpersonal skills and can successfully partner with cross functional teams in a result oriented manner.
In this Role, you'll get to:
- Project manage and implement various company-wide strategic initiatives.
- Think through and investigate implications of new initiatives to various finance functions (accounting, tax, operations, treasury, commercial, financial systems, risk & control etc.) and systems.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to gather key requirements, provide a critical lens to optimize suggested processes and workflows, and make key trade off decisions with shifting priorities and feature change requests.
- Ensure constant communication and calibration between project teams and other stakeholders at regular intervals
- Represent finance on cross-functional forums with the ability to influence key stakeholders to incorporate Finance requirements into the product and business roadmaps.
- Ensure timely progress and achievement of project milestones and goals by coordinating different workstreams, identifying risks, troubleshooting, and proposing mitigation plans.
- Assist with UAT testing
- Ensure that the projects go live smoothly, and any post-launch issues will be resolved promptly
What you'll Need to Succeed:
- 5+ years of project management experience, preferrable Finance Project related
- Ideally with some tech industry / e-commerce background, some finance operations and business analysis experience.
- Extensive stakeholder management experience and ability to influence people
- Process Integration Expertise: Demonstrated experience leading process integration, reorganization, or transformation initiatives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Undergraduate Degree (ideally in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting but others + professional accounting qualifications also acceptable)
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, multicultural, and high intensity environment.
- Comfortable working with uncertainty and experimentation in a high-velocity environment
- Highly numerate with strong analytical and problem solving, influencing and change management skills. Ability to think out of the box and make judgement calls.
- Attention to details, self-motivating with continuous improvement mindset. High learning agility. Ability to ask the right questions to ensure speed and accuracy.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational and planning skills with solid interpersonal skills
- High level of dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation. Strong business acumen.
It's Great if you have:
- Experience with finance tools and processes with some accounting and reporting knowhow
- Experience working closely with Product and IT
- Experience working in finance cross-functions (accounting, operations, treasury, FP&A, financial systems, etc.)
