At Expedia Group, we are looking for individuals who embody our dynamic, collaborative, and inclusive spirit of our company. 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.

GFT is a Finance strategy and solutions team that partners with EG Product and Technology teams to ensure Finance involvement, review, and support for all high-priority initiatives. The team represents Finance, Controls, Risk and Compliance teams by assessing operational Finance impacts to any new initiative, ensuring that EG systems support any changes, and provide continuous reporting accuracy and SOX compliance. GFT additionally serves to assess and manage this cross-functional work across Accounting, Tax, Treasury, Fraud, Billing, Payments, and FP&A. GFT's mission is to enable EG to run and expand the business by supporting initiatives that generate new streams of revenue, projects resulting in cost-savings, product enhancements, and new regulatory requirements. GFT acts as the voice of Finance in these initiatives ensuring compliance and no impact to the business for any project releases.

What you'll do:

• Own and manage lifecycle activities from beginning to end (planning, requirements gathering, technology team partnerships, UAT planning and performance, project closing, and stakeholder engagement) for multiple projects simultaneously

• Work on automation projects and lead the coordination of designing processes and tools to make financial statement processes easier and more accurate

• Be an empowered, impactful decision maker who drives the direction of a project to completion

• Operate as a valued consultant to partner with many different fp&a stakeholder teams across Expedia Group

• Support planning and coordination of a program and its activities and ensure implementation of policies and practices

• Maintain budget and track expenditures/transactions

• Manage communications through media relations, social media etc

• Help build positive relations within the team and external parties and schedule and organize meetings/events and maintain agenda

• Ensure technology is used correctly for all operations (video conferencing, presentations etc.)

• Prepare paperwork and order material and keep updated records and create reports or proposals

Who you are:

• A minimum of 7+ years of recent and relevant experience

• Extensive professional experience working with financial processes, project management, finance requirements documentation, process design, and user acceptance testing responsibilities

• Sufficient finance experience required to help the project launch team identify and incorporate the necessary financial reporting and internal control elements into the systems or tools that are developed to support new business activities

• Experience with FP&A EPM systems such as Hyperion

• Experience with PMO software such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, and SharePoint

• Exposure to cloud-based technology such as AWS

• Passion for delivering process improvement across the finance organization

• A deep sense of ownership, and the ability to identify process improvement opportunities, drive positive change across the organization, and enhance partnerships between FP&A and various finance and IT groups

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, managing through ambiguity and complexity, and demonstrating an ability to support multiple, simultaneous, project launches at any one time

• Experience with travel technology preferred

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $155,000.00 to $217,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $248,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

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, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.