Financial Analyst
Job Field: Office Jobs
Location: BELLEVUE, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time
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<td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">Financial Analyst<BR><BR><BR>Job ID #: 21706<BR>Company: Expedia, Inc.<BR>Location: USA - WA - Bellevue<BR>Functional Area: Finance<BR>Employment Type: Full-Time Regular<BR>Education Required: Bachelors<BR>Experience Required: 1-2 Years<BR>Relocation Provided: No<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Position Description<BR>Position Overview: <BR>Expedia Corporate Finance is looking for a Financial Analyst to support the Global Technology and Operations (GTO) organization. The Financial Analyst will partner with technology customers, other business functions and support GTO finance team members to enable solid business decision making through financial insight and meaningful analysis. Specifically, the analyst will own key finance processes pertaining to technology costs, manage relationship with key customers and other business partners to provide support for forward looking business and operational planning decisions, build financial models and analyses and track and improve business and finance processes.<BR><BR>Responsibilities:<BR>? Develop a shared understanding of business performance drivers and key metrics (development, reporting and analysis of key metrics and performance drivers)<BR>? Manage the end-to-end forecasting process for technology vendors, license and software maintenance, including reporting of resource metrics, monthly accruals and process improvements in forecasting process<BR>? Develop financial models and business cases that require basic to moderate level of analysis for use in management decision making<BR>, identify gaps and drive improvements across finance processes<BR>? Support team members through the annual planning,quarterly budgeting and monthly forecasting process and actively participate in the development of the annual plan for the technology organization at Expedia<BR>? Coordinate month-end close reporting and produce weekly, monthly and quarterly expense and headcount reports to highlight key insights and levers for finance and technology leadership teams<BR>? Serve as liaison between GTO Finance and support functions (Accounting, Procurement and HR), on process improvements, ad-hoc research, analysis and reporting as needed to serve business partner needs and support team members<BR><BR>Qualifications (including Work Experience and Education Guidelines):<BR>? BA or BS in Finance or Accounting required; CPA or MBA a plus<BR>? 2+ years experience in an analytical role with an emphasis on financial analysis<BR>? Experience in budgeting, expense analysis and forecasting<BR>? Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, functions) as well as the ability to work with large amounts of data<BR>? Experience with Peoplesoft/Oracle, Hyperion and Essbase preferred<BR>? Accounting experience a plus<BR><BR>Core Competencies:<BR>? Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work with all levels of management, across different organizations<BR>? Demonstrated proactive and solutions-oriented approach towards business problems and process improvements<BR>? Attention to detail and a commitment to data integrity<BR>? Ability to manage projects and proces </font></td>
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