Senior Finance Data Analyst

Will you join us on a journey to disrupt the trillion-dollar travel industry? Are you a business-driven analyst looking for your next adventure? Look no further!

Vio.com believes travel is the one thing that opens minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our mission is to get every traveler the best accommodation deal, worldwide. From adventure travel and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we genuinely care so that every traveler can make the best-informed accommodation choice at the absolute best conditions for every trip.

To further this goal we are looking for a motivated and pragmatic data analyst to help scale our ‘Book on Vio’ product group operations to new levels. ‘Book on Vio’ is responsible for making our great accommodation deals bookable directly on our website and ensuring a smooth booking & post-booking experience for our customers. As a Senior Data Analyst, you will be the focal point of e-commerce operations data matters related to banking, treasury, fraud, payments, margin optimizations, and financial services. You will drive efficiency and performance enhancements to help scale our ‘Book on Vio’ product to make our great deals even better and available to more customers. And your financial modelling and data interpretation will lead to actionable recommendations to senior management and stakeholders.

What you will do:

• Guide finance and product decisions and optimisations with insights from e-commerce data (related to payments, finance, fraud etc.) and expertise.
• Lead P&L and other financial reporting with data and tracking; build data models (with tools like dbt) and create dashboards in Looker in collaboration with data engineers.
• Drive the automation of the reconciliation of financial data across multiple sources (including invoices, external data sources, bank statements etc.) in collaboration with the finance and engineering team, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Steer discussions with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for process improvement and optimization within financial operations, leveraging data analysis to drive efficiencies and cost savings.
• Be proactive about analysing the strengths, weaknesses and trends of Vio.com’s finance vitals and advise our leadership on defining the right strategy.
• Share knowledge with other analysts and contribute to best practices across the analytics chapter.

What a day in the office might look like

During the daily stand-up, you raise issues you identified regarding low profitability in some regions and suggest improvements to payments processing deal with them. Before lunch, you improve the data model and dashboard used by the finance team for data reconciliation. After a team lunch, you meet with the team to brainstorm new ideas on how to implement vouchers/discounts for customers. After a 1on1 meeting with the CFO in which you discuss the financial forecast, you set aside time at the end of the day to deep dive into optimizing the payment costs and write up your insights and recommendations on how to evolve our payments method.

The team: CFO, finance managers, senior data analyst. You will also be part of a horizontal analytics team of 4 analysts in the Product Group as well as collaborate with Product Managers and Analytics Engineers.

Who you are:

• You have at least 5 years of hands-on data analytics experience, including at least 2 years in finance/payments domain;
• You are highly analytical and data-driven and can assemble, analyse and interpret data to make decisions and communicate findings;
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders;
• You are an expert at using SQL and developing data models (using tools like Dbt) and dashboards in BI tools like Looker, Tableau, or PowerBI;
• You have a good understanding of statistics;
• You are eager to learn new things and have a flexible mindset;
• Experience in e-commerce or online travel is a plus.

Why join us now?

• We are one of the fastest-growing accommodation booking platforms in the world today, having grown our bookings 30x between 2017 and 2022, and catering to the needs of over 100 million unique visitors worldwide each year. We do that by harnessing the power of advanced algorithms and an innovative suite of power features and managed to overcome the corona crisis remarkably fast;
• The mobile applications (iOS and Android) we launched in 2023 are already a big success in the US, and we are aiming at 10M global app installs by the end of 2024, as we are beginning to build Vio.com as the brand for value-seeking travellers worldwide;
• We are a passionate and diverse team of tech enthusiasts and creatives with a commitment and focus on the traveler above all else - and it shows in our industry-leading TrustPilot score;
• We place huge importance on rewarding our employees for the value they generate by giving Stock Appreciation Rights to all employees.

Do you want to know if Vio.com is the right place for you? Find out by reading about the attitude that thrives at Vio.com.

What we offer:

• Plenty of chances to learn and grow within an open, diverse culture which promotes knowledge sharing, trust and transparency;
• A great compensation package, perks and benefits (including significant stock appreciation rights);
• Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely;
• You will be part of ahighly international teamthat enjoys working, eating and playing together in one of the best office locations in Amsterdam;
• We value good food and offer catered lunches from various cuisines, great coffee, ice-cream in the fridge and the occasional barbecue in our garden;
• We enjoy getting together to celebrate our wins with company events in Amsterdam and a yearly company trip abroad;
• A budget for your dream home office;
• Access to free mental health support via OpenUp.

Please note: Although our ideal candidate is based in or open to relocate to Amsterdam (we provide relocation support!), we are also considering remote candidates based in UTC -3/+3 timezones.

We encourage people from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, ages and abilities to apply. If this job description resonates with you, we want to hear from you!

Blog posts worth reading (add appropriate links that relate to the role)

• Our Core Values and What they Mean to our People
• The Hiring Process at Vio.com
• Our Rebrand

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