Agoda is one of the world’s fastest-growing online hotel platforms. Established in 2005 as a start-up, Agoda expanded quickly in Asia and was soon acquired in 2007 by the world’s largest seller of rooms online - the Priceline Group. Today, Agoda offers hundreds of thousands of accommodation options around the globe with service and support in over 40 lan...
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The opportunity for the new Senior Project Manager is to lead all finance and compliance-related projects involving Global Accounts, ensuring that these initiatives are executed efficiently and in line with business objectives. This role requires a strong understanding of the business impact of various projects, as well as the ability to interpret and analyze complex data. A key responsibility will be digesting intricate information and effectively communicating it to the commercial team, ensuring their full alignment and buy-in. Success in this role will be driven by the ability to manage multifaceted projects while balancing strategic goals, compliance, and financial considerations.
This role offers a high level of cross-functional interaction, exposure to senior management and is an excellent springboard to other senior roles.
In this role, you’ll get to:
Stakeholder Management: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring effective communication, alignment, and collaboration across teams and departments.
Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize data insights to guide project strategies, drive business outcomes, and evaluate performance, ensuring decisions are based on solid, measurable information.
Detail-Oriented: Exhibit meticulous attention to detail in managing complex projects, ensuring all aspects are accurately tracked and delivered according to plan.
Building Connections: Develop and foster meaningful relationships within the organization, creating opportunities for collaboration and alignment on project goals.
Understand and Analyze Data: Interpret complex data to derive actionable insights, translating financial and compliance data into clear, relevant information for stakeholders.
Presentation Skills: Present complex data and project outcomes in a clear, concise, and compelling manner to stakeholders at all levels, ensuring understanding and engagement.
Organized and Structured: Manage multiple projects simultaneously with strong organizational skills, maintaining structure and clarity in documentation, timelines, and deliverables.
Represent Global Accounts in Cross-Functional Forums: Act as the primary representative for Global Accounts in cross-functional meetings, ensuring their needs and priorities are effectively communicated and addressed.
Cross-Departmental Project Leadership: Lead and coordinate projects that involve multiple departments, ensuring cross-functional collaboration, timely execution, and successful project delivery.
Project Management: Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of projects, including planning, execution, monitoring, and closing, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and on budget.
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, 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.