About the job

As a Finance and Strategy Analyst, your day-to-day job will be to help business leaders make sound business and financial decisions. You will need to have a deep understanding of our customers and business drivers, allowing you to help steer Hopper’s growth and product strategy. To succeed in this role, you need to be able to understand the big picture, while also being unafraid to dive into the details and numbers. You will also need to use SQL daily to independently obtain data and support data driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data and provide clear financial insights to improve Hopper growth.
• Perform analyses of financial and operational drivers to craft our short and long term strategic plan.
• Partner closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including Product Managers, Engineers, Business Developers, and Leadership across the team.
• Prepare internal reports for business leaders supporting their decision making as well as updating the Hopper Hotel business plan.
• Support Sales Finance for a team of business development professionals around the world.
• Create, update and maintain financial models and forecasts.
• Support strategic initiatives to make Hopper the best place to book Hotels in the world.
• Work on Finance related optimization initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• SQL mastery and strong Data-Analysis skills.
• Proven track record in a top tier consulting firm, investment bank, investment fund, tech or fintech company.
• Scrappy, pragmatic and business-oriented. Able to understand the business objective, what we need to reach those objectives, and make data-based decisions on how to best reach those objectives.
• Self-starter. Able to prioritize many objectives based on impact potential, and eager to learn new technologies and domains to get the job done.
• Strong written communication skills. Able to construct a compelling, data-driven narrative to express ideas and proposals.

Preferred Qualifications

• A degree in Business, Strategy, Finance, Math, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative discipline
• Experience building financial models.
• Experience working with business development and product professionals, especially in a consumer facing or a travel company.
• Experience with a reporting tool like Tableau, a data warehouse like Google BigQuery, and a preferred visualization tool to explain insights from large data sets.
• Google Suite proficiency, ideally Looker Studio dashboards.

More About Hopper

Despite the pandemic’s impact on the travel industry, Hopper has emerged stronger than ever. As the travel industry continues to rebound, Hopper has demonstrated significant outperformance with its category-leading mobile-only marketplace, delivering value to customers and supply partners with the company’s proprietary suite of fintech offerings.

Here are just a few stats that demonstrate the company’s recent growth:

• Hopper’s valuation is now over $5B, which is more than triple our valuation from early 2020.
• According to Apptopia, Hopper was the #1 most downloaded OTA in the US in 2021. The app has over 70 million downloads.
• Given the success of its travel fintech, Hopper recently launched a B2B initiative called Hopper Cloud, where any travel provider can unlock a totally unique revenue stream by seamlessly integrating and offering Hopper’s travel content and fintech products. Hopper Cloud partners include Capital One, Kayak, Marriott, Amadeus, Trip.com, and MakeMyTrip.
• And all this recent growth is just the beginning. There are still so many new opportunities we’re excited to tackle in the next year!