Senior Finance Project Manager – New Business Initiative

Senior Finance Project Manager – New Business Initiative (Bangkok Based, Relocation Provided) – Agoda. Based in Bangkok, Thailand. This role sits in the New Business Initiatives team within Finance and focuses on managing and delivering strategic initiatives with a finance lens, balancing innovation and growth with smart risk management. The team provides strategic insights to Agoda's business leaders in pursuing new initiatives in a sustainable and scalable manner, delivering world-class execution for projects and serving as a learning ground for people, providing a pulse check on every strategic initiative Agoda pursues.

• Project manage and implement various company-wide strategic initiatives
• Think through and investigate implications of new initiatives to various finance functions (accounting, tax, operations, treasury, commercial, financial systems, risk & control, etc.) and systems
• Coordinate with stakeholders to gather key requirements, provide a critical lens to optimize suggested processes and workflows, and make key trade-off decisions with shifting priorities and feature change requests
• Ensure constant communication and calibration between project teams and other stakeholders at regular intervals
• Represent finance on cross-functional forums with the ability to influence key stakeholders to incorporate Finance requirements into the product and business roadmaps
• Ensure timely progress and achievement of project milestones and goals by coordinating different workstreams, identifying risks, troubleshooting, and proposing mitigation plans
• Assist with UAT testing
• Ensure that the projects go live smoothly, and any post-launch issues will be resolved promptly

• 5+ years of project management experience, preferably Finance Project related
• Ideally with some tech industry / e-commerce background, some finance operations and business analysis experience
• Extensive stakeholder management experience and ability to influence people
• Process Integration Expertise: Demonstrated experience leading process integration, reorganization, or transformation initiatives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Undergraduate Degree (ideally in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting but others + professional accounting qualifications also acceptable)
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, multicultural, and high-intensity environment
• Comfortable working with uncertainty and experimentation in a high-velocity environment
• Highly numerate with strong analytical and problem solving, influencing and change management skills. Ability to think out of the box and make judgement calls
• Attention to details, self-motivating with continuous improvement mindset. High learning agility. Ability to ask the right questions to ensure speed and accuracy
• Excellent written and verbal communication, organizational and planning skills with solid interpersonal skills
• High level of dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation. Strong business acumen

• Experience with finance tools and processes with some accounting and reporting knowhow
• Experience working closely with Product and IT
• Experience working in finance cross-functions (accounting, operations, treasury, FP&A, financial systems, etc.)

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