Qualifications:A degree in Accounting, Finance, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative discipline.5+ years of experience, with at least 2 of them in a similar FinOps role.Technology industry experience is an asset.Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with a strong focus on value creation and automation.Is keen to automate everything (with demonstrated bias towards building code over hiring low skilled talent).Experience in scoping technical requirements and leading system selections/implementations.Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders.Has led a team, understands how to recognize and retain top performing talent.Expertise or desire to learn SQL and in general, using programming as a tool to scale and solve problems.Enthusiasm and curiosity for conducting research and answering hard questions with data.About the job:We're looking for our future finance leaders; a great analytical mind with impeccable business judgment, who is really interested in understanding Hopper's financial operations deeply and helping us shape a world-class Finance function. Reporting to the Director of Finance Operations and partnering with stakeholders across the organization, you will be the key person in charge of performance reporting and ensure the delivery of our financial data in a timely manner to empower decision making. You will see the big picture and help establish priorities to achieve our strategy, but at the same time you need to be obsessed with details and capture the nuances behind the numbers. As part of your toolkit, you will implement process improvement and automation initiatives. You understand business and analytics deeply, have a grasp of accounting concepts and are willing to get into the details to master the operational and financial drivers involved.You are happy working with senior stakeholders and are capable of influencing them, with clear and concise messages. You are also competent in SQL (or eager to learn) and like playing with huge data sets, distilling insights and ways of thinking about the future.Responsibilities:Be in the pilot seat building-up a world-class FinOps function.Own all of our revenues and cogs financial reporting and be recognized as the expert for all things performance.Define, scope, and implement process improvements and automation solutions.Prepare internal reports for business leaders supporting their decision making.Lead ad hoc projects; such as defining new Finance-managed services or other initiatives.Hire, develop and retain a team of top performers.Not be afraid to learn or improve your SQL / Big Query to be able to access, manage and gain insights directly from data.More about Hopper:Hopper is valued at $3.5bn making us the 5th most valuable travel business in the world. We're best known as a travel app and we just raised a further $175m from a funding round led by GPI Capital. Our investors also include Goldman Sachs and Capital One for whom we exclusively power their travel portal. At Hopper, we're on a mission to build the most customer-centric travel company on earth. We are leveraging the power that comes from combining massive amounts of data and machine learning to build the world's fastest-growing mobile-first travel marketplace - one that enables our customers to save money and travel better. It's cheaper to purchase travel with Hopper! Hopper's goal is to reduce traveler anxiety throughout all stages of the trip buying process.By creating a transparent travel marketplace and unique, data-driven financial technology products focused on providing peace-of-mind, Hopper adds value along each step of the customer's journey. Recognized as one of the world's most innovative companies by Fast Company three years in a row, Hopper has been downloaded over 60 million times and sees over 1.9 million new installs per month. Our revenue growth is up 330% versus 2020 as we continue to outperform market recovery. Now we're laying the groundwork for continued expansion in 2021 by adding great people to our team who can help us compete with the travel giants. Come take off with us!
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