Senior Manager, Finance Operations - Accommodations

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3 Locations
110K-145K Annually
Senior level
Travel
The Role
The Senior Manager of Finance Operations leads hotel vendor reconciliation, oversees payment processes, and ensures compliance with SOX controls, while developing teams and optimizing financial operations.
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Senior Manager, Finance Operations - Accommodations

From accounting and financial planning to risk/fraud analysis and payments, our Finance team ensures not only our company’s financial security, but also that our customers can buy from us with confidence. 

Why this job’s a big deal:

Priceline is expanding its global presence and this is a critical position to support that effort. 

Priceline is looking for an experienced Senior Manager, Finance Operations  to effectively lead a key component of the Hotels A/P team, and evolve this global function to meet the needs of our rapidly growing and dynamic business. This person will join our finance team and be responsible for all aspects of the Accommodations Operations function supporting a global portfolio. This includes ensuring that all partner transactions are reconciled in the finance systems in a smooth, accurate, and timely fashion, and that payments are issued on time, to comply with industry standards. You will be responsible for gaining knowledge of the travel industry, specifically Hotel booking and back-office reconciliation processes and requirements. In addition, the Senior Manager can apply knowledge and experience to issues that have not been previously encountered to determine effective solutions.


In this role you will get to:

  • Lead an offshore organization and an onshore team responsible for daily Hotel Vendor Reconciliation processes including regular weekly & monthly operational reporting (measured by Key Performance Indicators) 

  • Ensure the payment requests derived from reconciliations are monitored to protect operations and meet Sox requirements. 

  • Collaborate with FinTech, Accounts Payable and other departments to ensure high volume transactional invoices are reconciled and paid timely. 

  • Review Transactional Accounts Payable Aging reports to ensure accuracy and action as needed.

  • Lead onboarding activities for new Hotel suppliers.

  • Be a People Leader, guiding multiple teams to achieve the mutual goal of global expansion and reconciliation optimization

  • Raise, track, and manage JIRA Tickets for all discrepancies, issues, and unreconciled transactions, measured by Key Performance Indicators

  • Analyze large quantities of data and develop dashboards to gain insights and monitoring

  • Identify and measure conformance to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Controls and operationalize improvements to the models

  • Act as our primary operations project focal for the new complex and/or high impact initiatives

  • Review and assess financial impacts with a cross-functional team, and design new financial processes that meet audit standards while optimizing the efficiency and accuracy of the processes involved

  • Ensure subledger and General Ledger accounts for Hotel transactions are reconciled and certified monthly, and trends are investigated, explained, and appropriate action taken

  • Identify patterns and help the team find the root cause of issues

Who you are:

  • Have a minimum of 5 years of financial operations, accounts payable, and/or accounting experience with progressive growth in responsibilities.

  • Have a minimum of 3 years of team leadership with multiple direct reports and a proven ability to manage and guide teams to achieve goals.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent related professional experience, Master’s Degree in Business preferred

  • Have strong written and verbal communication skills and proven success with effective leadership of a financial operations team

  • Strong team developer and talent coach who thrives with developing their teams

  • Ability to work flexible hours to align with our Global Partners as necessary

  • Have experience working in the Travel Agency industry, preferably with hotels

  • Experience working in and explaining issues to cross-functional teams with various and diverse institutional knowledge and focus

  • Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline:  Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust. 

  • The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it’s a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.  

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. In addition to a competitive base salary, certain roles may be eligible for an annual bonus and/or equity grant. The salary range for this position is $110,000- $145,000K USD.

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Who we are

WE ARE PRICELINE.

Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it’s a dream vacation, your cousin’s graduation, or your best friend’s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers. 

Our culture is unique and inspiring (that’s what our employees tell us). We’re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn’t stabilized.  

We’re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable. 

If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out! 

Flexible work at Priceline

Priceline is following a hybrid working model, which includes two days onsite as determined by you and your manager (ideally selecting among Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday). On the remaining days, you can choose to be remote or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion are a Big Deal!

To be the best travel dealmakers in the world, it’s important we have a workforce that reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve. We are committed to cultivating a culture where all employees have the freedom to bring their individual perspectives, life experiences, and passion to work. 

Priceline is a proud equal opportunity employer. We embrace and celebrate the unique lenses through which our employees see the world.  We’d love you to join us and add to our rich mix! 

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The Company
New York, NY
1,339 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

At Priceline, part of Booking Holdings, Inc. [NASDAQ: BKNG], we believe every trip is a big deal to our customers. Whether it’s a much-needed getaway, wedding, reunion, graduation, or rooting on a favorite team—those are the moments that nobody should miss out on.

Our mission? Be the best travel dealmakers in the world. We provide our customers with smart and easy ways to access the very best deals available on hotel rooms, flights, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises, so they can be there for the moments that matter the most to them.

We do that by welcoming people who are at the top of their game, who want to learn and grow with others and who take their work seriously (but not themselves). We’re building a diverse and uniquely talented team to make sure our customers can be there for all those {big deal} moments. Come join us!

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