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Senior Director, Commercial Finance, Lodging Partner Services (LPS)

Switzerland - Geneva

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This is an exciting opportunity to shape the direction of one of Expedia Group’s leading organisations, Expedia Lodging Partner Services (LPS), by combining best practices and innovative thinking to accelerate Expedia Group to further growth and stronger business results.

LPS is the group within Expedia responsible for partnering with the overall lodging industry, and continuously optimizes and sources lodging  supply (hotels, B&Bs, pensiones, riyadhs, vacation rentals) that reaches travelers in more than 70 countries through all of the Expedia Group brands on Expedia Group’s global travel platform.

As a leader on the global LPS Finance team, you will partner across the business leadership team (specifically focused on Strategic Accounts, Marketing & Innovation and New Inventory) to analyse the impact of all actions, risks & opportunities, and recommend strategic investment decisions. You will be taking leading key negotiations with our largest suppliers and developing our new products across multiple geographies. You’ll also be recognized as a finance leader in the Expedia Group Finance community, that share best practices & talent, and collaborate on Expedia-wide finance initiatives.

What you’ll do:

• You will own the global financial planning & analytics responsibility for 3 crucial LPS divisions: Strategic Accounts, Marketing & Innovation, and New Inventory. You will rigorously deliver weekly performance analyses, quarterly forecasting, presentation and reporting.


• You will lead and develop the planning, reporting, and analytical tools necessary to maximise business effectiveness and efficiency for the LPS organisation.


• You will also provide commercial decision support and ownership for forward-looking business and operational planning. This included continuous business and supplier information analysis, supplier-based reporting, business metrics analysis and forecasting, contract negotiations, deal and product modelling and business performance measurement.


• You will craft global strategies in partnership with senior leadership and business partners that align with organisational and company objectives by providing business leaders with data and ideas to optimise revenue, supplier relationships and new products.


• You will lead elements of the overall Annual Plan and strategic planning cycles and make insightful recommendations that drive continued EBITDA growth.


• You will support client’s needs for ad-hoc reporting and presentations, and lead financial reviews, while balancing requests with pragmatic resource capabilities and ensuring value-add.


• You will work with business partners to develop accurate business forecasting and planning models.


• You will promote a culture of innovation, ensuring that lessons learned are captured and leveraged in subsequent efforts.

Who you are:

• You will be a business partner first and foremost. Consistently displaying a commercially focused business partnering mindset.


• You will have global experience. You will ideally have B2B and/or technology or travel tech experience.


• You have a demonstrated growth mindset. You have the curiosity, humility and learning agility to continuously learn & grow from all experiences and feedback, constantly and proactively looking for opportunities to grow and improve the business, your team, and yourself.


• You are a qualified accountant. You have experience of using accounting, business modelling and financial analysis to build trusted business partnerships with business leaders.


• You are a strong relationship builder able to navigate through situations to ensure the most robust and pragmatic financial solution.


• You have experience in supporting international B2B commercial negotiations and direct commercial finance experience with exposure to P&L and balance sheet management.


• You are innately curious and have a desire to continuously learn more.


• Big picture focused whilst skilled at zeroing in on the detail and delivering continuous improvement.


• Skilled thought leader confident and successful at influencing c-suite leadership teams for positive, sustainable, long term financial growth.


• You will be skilled at canvassing opinions and alternative views which lead to innovative solutions; and be at ease evaluating and making recommendations across competing and equally critical business needs


• You are inspiring and approachable as a leader of diverse teams, passionate about attracting, engaging and developing talent.

Why join us?

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.  

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares. 

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®. 

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.APPLY NOW