Manager, Finance Operations - North American Flights

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office

Manager, Finance Operations - North American Flights

From accounting and financial planning to risk/fraud analysis and payments, our Finance team ensures not only our company's financial security, but also that our customers can buy from us with confidence.

Why this job's a big deal:

Priceline has an established North American flight business that we are looking to expand. This role will focus on managing the existing process as well as the expansion through supporting the finance onboarding process, timely reconciliations, and payment processes. You will effectively lead the North American Air A/P team, and evolve this function to meet the future needs of our rapidly growing and dynamic business. This role includes ensuring that all new airlines are established in the finance systems in a smooth and timely fashion. This role also oversees accurate and timely reconciliations and payments arranged through IAR/ARC, as well as select third-party-providers. In addition, the North American Flights Manager can apply knowledge and experience to issues that have not been previously encountered to determine effective solutions.

In this role you will get to:

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  Directly lead and develop an on-shore and off-shore team responsible for daily Air Accounts Payable and Vendor Reconciliation processes including regular weekly & monthly operational reporting (measured by Key Performance Indicators)

  
  
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  Proactively identify the need for, design, and implement both operational & Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) controls across the air operations function to effectively mitigate risk

  
  
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  Act as our primary air operations project focal for the new complex and/or high impact initiatives by reviewing and assessing financial impacts with a cross-functional team, and designing new financial processes that meet audit standards

  
  
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  Ensure subledger and General Ledger accounts for Air AP are reconciled and certified monthly, and trends are investigated, explained, and appropriate action taken

  
  
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  Data Skills to find patterns and help the team find the root cause of issues

  
  

Who you are:

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  5+ years of Airline or GDS (Flights) Travel Experience

  
  
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  Have a minimum of 5 years of financial operations, accounts payable, and/or accounting experience with progressive growth in responsibilities

  
  
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  Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent related professional experience

  
  
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  Air industry expertise and experience is required

  
  
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  Has detailed and intricate understanding of GDS functions and language

  
  
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  Has detailed and intricate understanding of IAR/ARC (Airline Reporting Corp) and Compass

  
  
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  Have strong written and verbal communication skills and proven success with effectively leading a financial operations team

  
  
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  Analytical and comfortable working with big data

  
  
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  Strong team developer and talent coach who thrives with developing their teams

  
  
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  Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.

  
  
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  The Right Results, the Right Way is not just a motto at Priceline; it's a way of life. Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.

  
  

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. In addition to a competitive base salary, certain roles may be eligible for an annual bonus and/or equity grant. The salary range for this position is $75,000- $100,000K USD.

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