Sabre is a technology company that powers the global travel industry. By leveraging next-generation technology, we create global technology solutions that take on the biggest opportunities and solve the most complex challenges in travel.
Positioned at the center of the travel, we shape the future by offering innovative advancements that pave the way for a more connected and seamless ecosystem as we power mobile apps, online travel sites, airline and hotel reservation networks, travel agent terminals, and scores of other solutions.
Simply put, we connect people with moments that matter.
The GDS commercial deals Americas finance manager will serve as a financial consultant to our Sales team and lead two regional analysts on building deal models and understanding complex pricing structures. In addition to partnering deeply with our Sales team, will also partner with other areas of finance to ensure that we are enabling our business partners to pursue business that is best for Sabre from a financial perspective.
Role and Responsibilities
What will you achieve?
- Responsible for managing a team of 2 employees and ensuring all distribution proposals for the Americas region are thoroughly analyzed, forecasted, and well-presented to C-level executives.
- Responsible for collaboration and communication with the FP&A, accounting, billing, contracts, legal, and sales teams on all deals that have significant impact in any area of the business.
- Responsible for training employees on how to analyze proposals from a financial perspective, paying special attention to how the deals will drive/reduce value to the company and how to make recommendations on pricing structure, cost, and other financial aspects to ensure lucrative deals are presented to executives for approval.
- Leading team in areas of self-improvement such as trainings that match their growth needs, providing networking opportunities in a remote setting to enhance their Sabre footprint, mentoring, support during C-level exec presentations, along with financial modeling and forecasting training.
- Maintaining Standard Operating Procedures for future new hires along with user guides for current team to enable a more streamlined analysis process.
- Ensuring all distribution proposals meet corporate policy and accounting standards.
- Reviewing contracts to ensure language meets the proposal approved, protects Sabre’s interests from a legal perspective, and prevents future terminations/cash flow risks.
- Ensuring correct implementation of new deal structures from a billing perspective and understand internal limitations and risks.
- Driving process improvements through improved financial models and working directly with sales on strategic solutions/implementations.
- Assisting C-level executives with any ad-hoc analysis needed to drive success for the company.
What's in it for you?
- Developing and leading a strong finance team while having the chance to work with a best-in-class global organization.
- Opportunity to work on high visibility and high impact deals that dictate Sabre's future direction.
- Be part of one of the world’s largest Travel and Hospitality technology company
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Bachelor degree or equivalent, MBA preferred.
- 5+ years of related experience
Must Have Skills:
- Self-starter capable of driving results even with limited information.
- Highly analytical and curious approach, always asking questions and validating assumptions.
- Knowledge of financial principles, such as revenue recognition, P&L, margin analysis.
- Detail-oriented
- Effective communicator
- Solution oriented with high level of ownership for results
- Strong ability to prioritize tasks with heavy workloads
Nice To Have Skills:
- Willingness to occasionally work odd hours as the business requires.
- Experience with contracts
- Accounting experience
- Experience working for a technology company
Sabre Offers The Following Outstanding Benefits
- Very competitive compensation
- Generous Paid Time Off (25 PTO days)
- 4 days (one day/quarter) Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- 5 days off annually for Year-End Break
- We offer a comprehensive medical, dental and Wellness Program
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- An infrastructure that allows flexible working arrangements
- Formal and informal reward, recognition and acknowledgement programs
- Lots of fun and engaging employee development events
Reasonable Accommodation
Sabre is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. Applicants applying for a Sabre position with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact Sabre at [email protected].
Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Affirmative Action
Sabre is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and is committed to providing employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals. EEO IS THE LAW
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What We Do
We are a software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity in the industry.
Today, we are creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. We partner with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel. We are committed to helping customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences with next-generation technology solutions.
Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives.
Sabre's technology powers the nearly US$8 trillion travel industry. Our technology and data-driven solutions help our airline, hotel, travel agency and corporate customers grow their businesses and transform the traveler experience. The scale, breadth and depth of our technology is unmatched and sustains a complex industry.
We provide an open and stable platform to deliver flexible, reliable and scalable solutions. Over the years, we have shaped and modernized the travel industry. We pioneered online travel agencies, corporate booking tools, revenue management, and web and mobile itinerary tools, to name a few.
Our travel marketplace transacts more than US$120 billion of travel spend per year. And we are the world’s largest provider of airline and hotel technology.
We have been named to the InformationWeek 500 list of the most innovative technology companies for 11 consecutive years. And InformationWeek named Sabre seventh on its list of the “Greatest Software Ever Written.”
