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About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with more than 3.6 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 6,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Our Purpose – Bridging the World Through Travel

We believe travel allows people to enjoy, learn and experience more of the amazing world we live in. It brings individuals and cultures closer together, fostering empathy, understanding and happiness.

We are a skillful, driven and diverse team from across the globe, united by a passion to make an impact. Harnessing our innovative technologies and strong partnerships, we aim to make travel easy and rewarding for everyone.

About Agoda

Agoda is an online travel booking platform for accommodations, flights, and more. We build and deploy cutting-edge technology that connects travelers with more than 2.5 million accommodations globally. Based in Asia and part of Booking Holdings, our 4,000+ employees representing 90+ nationalities foster a work environment rich in diversity, creativity, and collaboration. We innovate through a culture of experimentation and ownership, enhancing the ability for our customers to experience the world.

Get to Know our Team:

Agoda has taken many great strides in recent years, expanding our reach around the globe as well as our list of travel products. A critical driver to this success has been the team of Agoda Finance. We keep a steady hand on maintaining day-to-day financial operations while also keeping an eye out for future opportunities. Not only do we have the unique role of balancing risk management with continued innovation and growth, we also serve as a means of empowerment for both our team members and those within the company. Having experimentation and data analysis deeply ingrained in our culture, we provide the strategic insights Agoda’s business leaders need to push into new territories in sustainable and scalable ways. We also prioritize career development in Agoda Finance. Every function within the team has a well-defined career track with clear goals and development targets each step of the way.

The Opportunity:

Agoda is seeking an entrepreneurial, organized project manager with strong knowledge of finance operations and systems to join the Fintech & Business Initiatives team. The team is a critical driver of Agoda and Finance department’s success, balancing innovation, and growth with smart risk management. It’s a team that provides strategic insights to Agoda’s business leaders in the pursuit of launching new initiatives in a sustainable and scalable manner, aims to provide world class execution for projects involving Finance and serves as a vibrant learning ground for people, providing a pulse check on every strategic initiative Agoda pursues.

In this role, you will have:

• A front row seat on key Agoda strategic initiatives
• Opportunity to drive implementation of those key initiatives with a Finance lens
• Partner with possibly the most diverse set of stakeholders of any department (IT, Product, Legal, Business teams, Marketing, Customer Services and more)
• Leverage your organizational skills combined with subject matter expertise to make an impact
  
  

In this Role, you’ll get to:

• 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, fintech 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
  
  

What you’ll Need to Succeed:

• 5+ years of project management experience, ideally in tech / e-commerce industry, with some finance operations and business analysis experience
• Experience working in finance cross-functions (accounting, operations, treasury, FP&A, financial systems, fintech etc.) and close coordination with business, IT & Product Teams
• Extensive stakeholder management experience and ability to influence people.
• 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.
• Presentation skills and the ability to make good PowerPoint decks to present to C-level and senior management
• Excellent verbal and written communication, problem-solving skills, and the ability to make decisions based on logical reasoning
• A go-getter – ability and willingness to go above and beyond the defined scope
  
  

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Equal Opportunity Employer

At Agoda, we pride ourselves on being a company represented by people of all different backgrounds and orientations. We prioritize attracting diverse talent and cultivating an inclusive environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. Employment at Agoda is based solely on a person’s merit and qualifications. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, age, race, color, national origin, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other legally protected characteristics.

We will keep your application on file so that we can consider you for future vacancies and you can always ask to have your details removed from the file. For more details please read our privacy policy .

To all recruitment agencies: Agoda does not accept third party resumes. Please do not send resumes to our jobs alias, Agoda employees or any other organization location. Agoda is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.