Finance Manager, Brand Marketing

About the position

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Business partner and provide finance support to the Global Marketing team right up to senior leadership
• Lead financial planning process and monthly forecast including setting up timelines, templates and ensuring budgets are maintained, and latest business plans are incorporated.
• Perform month-end review, providing insight into variances and timing of spend changes.
• Drive deeper insight into the performance of the business by exploring the data in new ways.
• Communicate business performance to leaders both inside and outside the Finance organization, and the implications of that performance for future business decisions
• Improve cost visibility through the development of new reporting and strengthening end-to-end processes from plan development to invoice payment ensuring accurate, detailed spend tracking to guarantee we always have a handle on what we have spent.
• Work with Global Marketing team to manage incremental investments ask and cutbacks and ensure optimal capital allocation (ex. POSa reallocation)
• Further the understanding of Return on Brand Awareness spend (payback timeframe, testing results, impacted channels and implications)
• Numerous ad-hoc tasks and projects as needed, incl. the constant drive to improve & automate the reporting

Requirements

• You are an experienced Finance professional with ideally a Marketing Finance background
• You have experience in budgeting, forecasting, business modelling and analysis; Accounting experience a plus
• You have had frequent interaction with senior management and other professionals, both Finance and non-Finance.
• You have experience in implementing effective processes and delivering projects independently
• You have a strong attention to detail and a dedication to data integrity
• Independent, self-motivated and enthusiastic, with good problem solving and analytical skills
• You are advanced in your skills in Excel, and have Powerpoint experience; Hyperion & Oracle experience strongly preferred
• You have an interest in learning new tools, processes and systems

Benefits

• Exciting travel perks
• Generous time-off
• Parental leave
• Global hybrid work setup
• Career development resources