Senior Accounting Business Analyst

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Senior Accounting Business Analyst

The Senior Accounting Business Analyst will play an integral role working with both Global Financial Reporting (GFR) and Technology stakeholders to collect requirements, collaborate on design, test, and deploy new modern end-to-end Accounting and reporting systems and processes. This hands on position must understand complex business processes, systems, data, and accounting to effectively translate requirements for Technology partners to deliver quality, scalable financial solutions that meet our customers’ needs.

What you'll do:

• Independently gain an understanding of current processes and elicit detailed business requirements from Accounting and potentially other financial stakeholders

• Liaise between GFR and Technology teams, effectively translating requirements, and use cases to Technology partners to ensure proper solutions, including financial controls, are built and tested, before being deployed

• Collaborate closely with Accounting stakeholders and peer product managers to help define product strategy and product vision that meets accounting needs

• Define required reporting and business processes based on to-be financial solutions

• Help facilitate trade-off decisions with Accounting and Technology that balance investment, schedule, and customer benefit

• Become a subject matter expert on new systems and to-be processes and solutions, while gathering and conveying feedback to ensure stakeholder needs are met

• Facilitate test planning, execution, and troubleshooting between Accounting and Technology teams

• Perform financial and accounting validations and reconciliations at both detailed and aggregate levels

Who you are:

• Bachelor's of Arts in Accounting, Business Administration or in a related field; or equivalent related professional experience

• 5+ years of relevant experience in general/revenue accounting

• Ability to clearly communicate complex topics to audiences with different levels of understanding

• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills

• Customer focus with passion for accuracy

• Flexible yet persistent attitude

• Experience in collecting and translating financial/accounting business requirements, user acceptance testing, and successfully driving projects/deliverables to completion

• Experience in writing SQL queries or using other reporting tools to analyze and interpret data from complex systems and processes

• Experience in working with Oracle EBS

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About Expedia Group 

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.  

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