Senior Manager, Finance (Rocket Travel by Agoda)

The Opportunity:

Rocket Travel by Agoda (RTA) is the strategic partnerships arm of Agoda, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG). Rocket Travel by Agoda partners with global brands to bring their customers rewarding and engaging travel experiences that deliver value, maximize rewards, and build customer loyalty for partners’ brands. 

As a Senior Manager Finance business partner, you will partner closely with business leaders from across the company around the globe. They have direct impact on commercial strategy, providing expert advice regarding investment opportunities and highlighting performance concerns.

This role requires a forward-thinking leader who can navigate complexity, influence at the highest levels, and deliver impactful insights to support critical decision-making.

You will oversee the development of robust financial frameworks, provide strategic guidance on investment opportunities, and lead the transformation of financial processes to align with the company’s evolving business needs. Your leadership will be instrumental in driving operational excellence, fostering collaboration, and ensuring the finance function is a key enabler of business success.

This position can encompass financial appraisals, budgeting and forecasting, scenario modelling, monitoring of investment expenditures, cost management and post implementation performance reporting.

You will be at the front line of decision-making and build extensive networks and understanding within the business. This allows for a wide progression scope not only within Finance but also other commercially focused teams.

Empowering the world's leading companies to reward every traveler’s journey, Rocket Travel by Agoda is a trailblazer of travel technology—delivering unmatched loyalty solutions with speed, innovation, and a culture that champions inclusivity, collaboration, and excellence at every step. Here is how we work:

• Work with a group of intrinsically motivated people with a track record for building successful new businesses from scratch.
• Embody curiosity, community, and accountability. We live and build products by these values every day. 
• Own decisions and take action that can be implemented in a matter of days (or hours).
• Get inspired and encouraged to vacation faster, with an annual vacation stipend.
• Receive a competitive compensation package, including bonus, 401k with match, flexible vacation time, maternity and paternity benefits, health, and dental insurance.
• Chicago hybrid (preferred). We have an amazing office in Chicago West Loop. We have a hybrid team and a flexible work environment. 
• Share your passion for travel with equally adventurous teammates. 
• Work within the largest online travel company in the world. Rocket Travel creates B2C and B2B2C travel products and is part of Booking Holdings (BKNG). We have many worldwide partners and a diversified business.

In this Role, You’ll Get to: 

• Focus on Agoda's fast growing B2B business 
• Drive Process Integration: Lead initiatives to streamline and integrate financial processes across teams, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Partner with Senior Leadership: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership team, providing actionable insights and recommendations to drive business performance and strategic decision-making.
• Shape Commercial Strategy: Collaborate with business leaders to evaluate investment opportunities, assess risks, and develop business cases that align with the company’s growth objectives.
• Enhance Financial Reporting and Insights: Oversee the development of advanced reporting tools and dashboards, leveraging data analytics to provide real-time insights and drive data-driven decision-making.
• Monitor and Optimize Performance: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to identify trends, highlight performance concerns, and recommend corrective actions to improve business outcomes.
• Join a High-Performing Team: Work with a team of finance professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Champion Change Management: Act as a change leader, driving adoption of new tools, processes, and systems to enhance the finance function’s capabilities and support organizational transformation.