Director, Finance

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.

Collectively, our brands cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning, and booking travel, from choosing the best airplane seat, to reading personal travel reviews of hotels, to planning what to do in a destination once you arrive. The Expedia Group serves both leisure and business travelers with tastes and budgets ranging from modest to luxury. Expedia Group delivers consumer travel demand globally to thousands of hotels and vacation rentals, hundreds of airlines, thousands of activities, and dozens of car rental companies and cruise lines.

We are looking for a highly motivated Director to join the Expedia Group Finance team.  In this role you will provide financial management support and partner with leaders throughout EG. You will be a catalyst in influencing the strategic decisions across the business.  We will nurture your collaborative approach and will welcome your way of thinking. We value working with globally diverse teams to break down obstacles, be innovative and ensure the financial success of the business and happiness of our travelers!

In this role, you will:

• Finance Partner for Hotels.com leadership team, who will have a deep understanding of business levers and will find opportunities to drive value into the organization.

• Distill complex financial data into impactful insights; build financial models with full P&L ownership of multi-billion dollar global business, analyze latest trends, measure initiatives, and perform ad-hoc modeling as required.

• Partner across multiple teams to build accurate forecasts, including identifying and analyzing risks and opportunities.

• Support MBRs, QBRs, Board of Directors presentations, and IR/earning preparation.

• Drive process improvement through effective business partnering across the organization.

• In-depth analysis and benchmarking of our portfolio of brands, the products we sell, and the marketing channels customers engage in as well as the external competitive landscape.

• Lead a global team of analysts across various time-zones with development focus, and drive thought leadership for broader FP&A org.

• Influence executives and C-suite leaders through effective communication and presentation skills.

Experience and qualifications:

• 10+ years of finance experience with growing responsibilities.

• Strong track record of hiring and developing talent is a must.

• High level of intellectual curiosity that drives sense of ownership and desire for continuous improvement.

• Strong business partnership, excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work with all levels of management.

• Advanced analytic, modeling, forecasting, and presentation skills.

• Experience with finance systems like Hyperion or SAP BPC is a plus.

• Results driven and highly motivated, with the ability to think at executive and analyst levels.

• Able to lead and influence decisions across various internal functions.

• Passion for using data to drive better decision-making.

• Comfortable working with ambiguity in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Please note that this role is only available in the following location: Seattle, in alignment with our flexible work model which requires employees to be in-office at least three days a week. Relocation assistance will be considered for candidates relocating to these locations for this role.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $197,000.00 to $275,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $315,000.00, 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.

Accommodation requests

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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.

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