Finance & Strategy Senior Analyst - Hotels & Car rental

Hopper; United States; Remote; USD 78,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Finance & Strategy Senior Analyst to empower business leaders with data-driven insights. This role involves analyzing financial and operational data to shape strategic plans and support decision-making across teams. You'll leverage your strong analytical skills and expertise in SQL to create and maintain financial models, while collaborating with various stakeholders. If you're a self-starter with a knack for crafting compelling narratives and a passion for the travel industry, this position offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of travel booking. Join a dynamic team dedicated to making travel more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with a proven track record in finance.
• Experience with SQL and financial modeling is essential.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data to provide financial insights for growth.
• Prepare internal reports and support strategic initiatives.

Skills

Analytical Skills

SQL

Written Communication

Financial Modeling

Business Acumen

Tools

Looker

Google BigQuery

Job description

Finance & Strategy Senior Analyst - Hotels & Car rental

Pay Competitive

Location: Remote

Employment type: Other

Job Description

As a Finance and Strategy Analyst, your day-to-day job will be to help business leaders make sound business and financial decisions. You will need to have a deep understanding of our customers and business drivers, allowing you to help steer Hopper’s growth and product strategy. To succeed in this role, you need to be able to understand the big picture, while also being unafraid to dive into the details and numbers. You will use SQL daily to independently obtain data and support data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data and provide clear financial insights to improve Hopper growth.
• Perform analyses of financial and operational drivers to craft our short and long-term strategic plan.
• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including Product Managers, Engineers, Business Developers, and Leadership across the team.
• Prepare internal reports for business leaders supporting their decision-making as well as updating the Hopper Hotel business plan.
• Support Sales Finance for a team of business development professionals around the world.
• Create, update and maintain financial models and forecasts.
• Support strategic initiatives to make Hopper the best place to book Hotels in the world.
• Work on Finance-related optimization initiatives.

The Perfect Candidate

• Strong analytical skills.
• Proven track record in a top-tier consulting firm, investment bank, investment fund, tech or fintech company.
• Scrappy, pragmatic and business-oriented. Able to understand the business objective, what we need to reach those objectives, and make data-based decisions on how to best reach those objectives.
• Strong written communication skills. Able to construct a compelling, data-driven narrative to express ideas and proposals.
• Self-starter. Able to prioritize many objectives based on impact potential, and eager to learn new technologies and domains to get the job done.
• Comfortable with SQL, expertise a plus.
• Experience building financial models.
• Experience working with business development and product professionals, especially in a consumer-facing or a travel company.
• Experience with a reporting tool like Looker, a data warehouse like Google BigQuery, and a preferred visualization tool to explain insights from large data sets.

Salary: $78,000 - $105,000 a year

More About Hopper

At Hopper, we are on a mission to become the world’s best — and most fun — place to book travel. By leveraging massive amounts of data, advanced machine learning algorithms, Hopper combines its world-class travel agency offering with proprietary fintech products to help customers spend less and travel better. Ranked the third largest online travel agency in North America, the app has been downloaded nearly 80 million times and continues to gain market share globally.

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