In this role, 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
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, fintech 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, ideally in tech / e-commerce industry, with some finance operations and business analysis experience
- Experience working in finance cross-functions (accounting, operations, treasury, FP&A, financial systems, fintech etc.) and close coordination with business, IT & Product Teams
- Extensive stakeholder management experience and ability to influence people.
- 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.
- Presentation skills and the ability to make good PowerPoint decks to present to C-level and senior management
- Excellent verbal and written communication, problem-solving skills, and the ability to make decisions based on logical reasoning
- A go-getter – ability and willingness to go above and beyond the defined scope
