Senior Finance Operations Manager

Job Description

About The Role

We are currently looking for a well-rounded Finance Manager to join our European finance team! Reporting to the Accounting Director, the Finance Manager will work as part of a global accounting team leading all aspects of KAYAK and OpenTable accounting operations. You will work closely with Accounting, FP&A and Treasury teams at KAYAK, OpenTable and Booking Holdings. The ability to adapt to change with a positive, “can-do” attitude and a phenomenal teammate is a must. Think this is you? Read on.

Your objectives in this role include:

Operational Finance

• Ensure transactional finance operations (collections/credit control, cash application, AP, billing/contract management) are operating efficiently and effectively.
• Review and approval of payment runs in bank.
• Treasury activities including cash flow forecasting and management for EMEA entities.
• Work collaboratively with the Accounting Team on matters impacting the GL.
• Develop and monitor working capital KPIs and dashboard.
• Developing the transactional finance team, guide and mentor c.10 direct reports. Provide training, feedback and on-the-job mentoring.

Accounting/month-end

• Lead month-end sub-ledger close process for OpenTable, ensuring compliance with SOX.
• Timely reviews and approval of all KAYAK and OpenTable working capital balance sheet accounts, including monthly bank reconciliation and general ledger account reconciliations.

Process alignment and integration

• Lead all areas of process alignment across OpenTable and KAYAK brands and develop scalable processes across both brands while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
• Diving into the details and identifying issues, eliminate inefficiencies by revamping processes and utilization of internal systems and tools.

Other

• Support the Accounting Director on special/ad-hoc projects as and when required.

About You

• Ability to lead, and establish an accounting and transactional finance operations team in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and time management skills. Ability to prioritise, plan, perform and communicate activities and findings both in written and verbal form to individuals, management and auditors.
• Confident, ambitious, teammate who is equally comfortable working independently as well as a member of the local and wider global team.
• Hardworking self-starter who has a strong attention to detail, and can also see the bigger picture.
• Hands-on with an ambitious sense of ownership and accountability.
• Ability to work in a global environment with flexibility to work with different time zones and building rapport across functions and geographies.
• Must flourish with ambiguity, love change and undertaking special projects!

Your experience and education:

Required:

• ACA or ACCA qualified, Top 6 experience preferred.
• 3+ years PQE; must have mix of experience in public accounting and in industry (listed/pre-IPO preferred) with a strong focus on month-end close and transactional finance operations
• Minimum 3+ years of people management experience. Shown ability to recruit, lead, train and coach staff in accounting and within transactional finance operations.

Desired :

• Bachelor or Higher Degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Solid understanding of mid-range financial systems, Netsuite preferred. Experience with US GAAP and SOX as well as EMEA region GAAPs (preferred)
• ERP system implementation experience (preferred)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.