Finance Project Manager

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

• Project manage and implement various company-wide strategic initiatives.
• Think through and investigate implications of new initiatives to various finance functions (accounting, tax, operations, treasury, commercial, financial systems, risk & control etc.) and systems.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to gather key requirements, provide a critical lens to optimize suggested processes and workflows, and make key trade off decisions with shifting priorities and feature change requests.
• Ensure constant communication and calibration between project teams and other stakeholders at regular intervals.
• Represent finance on cross-functional forums with the ability to influence key stakeholders to incorporate Finance requirements into the product and business roadmaps.
• Ensure timely progress and achievement of project milestones and goals by coordinating different workstreams, identifying risks, troubleshooting, and proposing mitigation plans.
• Assist with UAT testing.
• Ensure that the projects go live smoothly, and any post-launch issues will be resolved promptly.

• Minimum 5 years of Finance project management experience, Ideally with exposure in Tax Project Related.
• Ideally with some tech industry / e-commerce background, some finance operations and business analysis experience.
• Extensive stakeholder management experience and ability to influence people.
• Process Integration Expertise: Demonstrated experience leading process integration, reorganization, or transformation initiatives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Undergraduate Degree (ideally in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting but others + professional accounting qualifications also acceptable).
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, multicultural, and high intensity environment.
• Comfortable working with uncertainty and experimentation in a high-velocity environment.
• Highly numerate with strong analytical and problem solving, influencing and change management skills. Ability to think out of the box and make judgement calls.
• Attention to details, self-motivating with continuous improvement mindset. High learning agility. Ability to ask the right questions to ensure speed and accuracy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational and planning skills with solid interpersonal skills.
• High level of dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation. Strong business acumen.

• It’s Great if you have: Experience with Indirect Tax Project Management; Experience with finance tools and processes with some accounting and reporting knowhow; Experience working closely with Product and IT; Experience working in finance cross-functions (accounting, operations, treasury, FP&A, financial systems, etc.)