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Finance Manager, Brand Marketing

A exciting Finance Manager opportunity has arisen to join Expedia Finance, as a business partner to the Brand Marketing team. Our Marketing division is committed to establishing enduring connections with both travelers and partners. We aim to foster a deep sense of trust and affinity for our brands, achieved through creative excellence and innovative marketing strategies.

This team provides financial support to the Creative and Market Research orgs. Our ultimate goal is to ensure that we’re making the right decisions on where to spend our money and understand what return it is driving, whilst calling out the key trends, decisions and trade-offs to be made.

This business facing role includes partnering with the exciting Global Marketing team, plus enjoys a varied scope of work including business case modelling, ad hoc analysis, budgeting and forecasting and month end processes.

In this role, you will:

• 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

Experience and qualifications:

• 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

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