Senior Financial Analyst (For independent contractors)

The Future Fit Program Office (FFPO) is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Financial Analyst (SFA).

The SFA is a critical financial leader and partner responsible for driving strategic financial planning, complex modeling, and accountability across the company's transformative initiatives. This role requires an experienced professional who operates mostly autonomously to independently develop sophisticated financial models, translate data into actionable insights, and influence senior stakeholders to ensure the Future Fit program delivers its intended value and return on investment (ROI). The SFA will report directly to the Senior Manager Value Lead.

About the Future Fit Program Office

The Future Fit Program Office is a dedicated team driving transformative projects to enable Booking.com's strategic vision. They are tasked with establishing robust governance, tracking project value, and managing change and communication. Moreover, they are instrumental in uncovering and enabling additional efficiency opportunities across departments and empowering them to achieve the overarching objectives of the program. Through relentless coordination and communication, the FFPO ensures seamless implementation and continuous improvement in meeting the program's overarching objectives.

The role involves value tracking, program cost management, stakeholder engagement, and reporting. The Senior Financial Analyst will help monitor adherence to our program principles, track benefits, manage costs, liaise with FP&A and Accounting, our other Program key stakeholders, and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Value Tracking

• Ensure adherence to our Program principles to govern target setting and tracking.

• Develop a deep understanding of all benefits, including benefits calculation methodology and how this relates to budget and forecasting.

• Track benefits against targets at an aggregate level, supporting business controllers in their engagements with the department owners.

Program Cost Management

• Track investments at the program and initiative level.

• Review new investment requests.

• Manage month-end close of our program cost centers.

• Ensure adherence to Accounting policies regarding transformation cost.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner directly with Workstream leads and key Program stakeholders to interpret financial performance of their Program initiatives, challenge underlying assumptions, and drive alignment on priorities.

• Liaise with FP&A and Accounting on implementing the realized costs/savings into the regular financial planning and reporting cycle.

• Act as a point of contact regarding the content and methodology of set targets for FP&A and Workstream leads.

Management Information

• Prepare and present concise, executive-level financial reporting packages, summarizing complex financial data into clear narratives for leadership.

• Own and manage FFPO Forecasting of our Program benefits and cost during the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy and alignment with our Program objectives.

• Lead monthly and quarterly financial performance reviews, providing deep-dive variance explanations against forecast and targets. Proactively identify and quantify financial risks and opportunities to program delivery.

Knowledge and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

• Minimum 5-8 years of relevant experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), corporate finance, or a similar analytical role.

• Significant prior experience as a project controller in large multi-year programs.

• Analytical Acumen: Proven ability to analyze large datasets, synthesize complex information, and communicate financial concepts clearly to non-financial stakeholders.

• Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in financial modeling using Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets (e.g., lookup functions, complex nested formulas, scenario analysis, pivot tables).

• Independence: Demonstrated ability to work mostly autonomously in a dynamic and unstructured environment, proactively identifying and leading solutions to complex issues.

• Solid knowledge of Accounting concepts.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing priorities simultaneously and drive projects to completion.

• Team player with strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.

• Experience in using Google Sheets & Slides is preferable.