TripAdvisor provides a unique, global work environment that captures the speed, innovation and excitement of a startup, at a thriving, growing and well-established industry brand. At TripAdvisor, you will be part of a dynamic, fun, and energetic team where you can immediately make meaningful contributions. 

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the financial planning and analysis team you will build strong business partner relationships with key leaders responsible for designing, building, and maintaining SmarterTravel’s website portfolio
• Prioritize and implement actions against key dates and deliverables ensuring compliance with tasks, deadlines and accuracy of deliverables from business partners
• Build detailed assumption driven financial models. Work with business leaders and the financial planning and analysis team to support models and set targets accordingly
• Provide guidance on the annual budgeting process and serve as a point person in communicating with the business
• Resolve issues and/or inefficiencies in process by probing and looking beyond symptoms to determine underlying causes to problems and issues
• Ability to develop relationships across the organization, influence other teams and design collaborations to drive results, improve process efficiency and accuracy of plan
• Prepare and manage monthly P&L reviews and forecast updates
• Develop analytics to determine if business team is meeting objectives
• Provide ad hoc reports and analytics as needed by business leader to present to Senior Leadership Team and other stakeholders, including the CFO
• Work with other finance and business team members to prepare ad hoc analytics and reports
• Prepare financial analysis and support on M&A activity as needed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related field required
• Master’s Degree preferred
• 5+ years of experience in financial planning, budgeting or forecasting, or in a related finance function
• Strong relationship building experience with ability to guide and influence key business unit owners
• Thorough knowledge of Excel and its data and analysis tools
• Hyperion Planning and Hyperion Essbase skills a plus
• Strong qualitative and quantitative skills, with a demonstrated passion for using data to drive decision making
• Extremely organized with the ability to contribute to multiple projects within tight time lines
• A team player, able to step in and help out other members of the team when needed
• An inquisitive nature, someone who wants to explore variances and understand the root cause
• An individual who is able to work effectively in a complex, changing environment and to adapt to change while focusing on key goals and objectives
• Strong presentation skills
• Maintains a positive, achievement-orientated attitude
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

#LI-LD1