Senior Principal, Strategic Finance & Analytics

Summary

Join Airbnb's finance & strategy team as a Senior Manager to lead strategic finance and analytics processes for Stays Supply. You will build financial models, track growth levers, and present insights to senior executives. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including revenue operations, data science, and product marketing. Lead a team of finance professionals, providing coaching and performance management. This role requires strong analytical skills, financial modeling expertise, and excellent communication skills. The position is US-remote eligible with occasional office work.

Requirements

• 12+ years of relevant experience; including 3+ years of managing a team of high performing individuals. Ideally you have an analytical background in strategy consulting, biz ops, investment banking, product management, or have been in a similar embedded internal consultancy role
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, accounting, engineering, statistics or other relevant field that demonstrates quantitative orientation. MBA or advanced degree a plus
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to put together clear, compelling narratives that are appropriate for consumption by senior executives including the CEO, CFO, and other senior leaders
• Superb financial modeling skills and extensive experience conducting quantitative and qualitative financial analysis
• Deep experience and understanding of two sided marketplaces, development of market entry strategies, and helping scale businesses
• The ability to work and influence cross-functionally is a must. You are proactive, great at communicating with different audiences and can bring stakeholders on-board. You seek out and have a track record for driving change and impact in a fluid, unstructured working environment

Responsibilities

• Lead all core strategic finance and analytics processes for Stays Supply, including annual planning, long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, resource prioritization, goal setting and tracking
• Build financial models to assess and manage capital allocation, optimize investments and fuel sustainable growth. Establish ROI benchmarks and a consistent evaluation process for funding major initiatives
• Organize and track existing growth levers, measure their performance and help hold teams accountable for driving improvements to revenue operations, product, marketing and policy
• Own Weekly Business Reviews, guide interpretation of key performance metrics to tell a clear story about business performance and ensure data-driven decision-making
• Present clear, succinct and compelling insights and recommendations to the senior executive team based on rigorous analytics and data synthesis. Build narratives tailored for leadership discussions
• Lead a team of experienced, high-performing professionals, motivate them to do their best work and deploy them against critical company priorities while maintaining morale
• Develop insightful recommendations based on hands-on analytics, financial modeling, and strategic analyses. Help bring together insights and data from across the company into a single, synthesized view that provides the company with clear, compelling recommendations that drive impact
• Support development of business strategy and drive outcomes across Stays Supply initiatives. Develop a deep understanding of what drives growth and efficiency for our business, and partner with the leadership team to translate insights into action
• Identify step-change opportunities by partnering with key stakeholders to identify areas of outsized impact through quantitative analysis, industry benchmarks, and competitive research
• Create business cases for new initiatives with an investor mindset, and help leadership prioritize resourcing
• Partner with the business in driving operational rigor and performance management, including development and ongoing analysis of KPIs, dashboards, creating goals/OKRs, and holding the business accountable to those goals
• Manage a team of finance professionals with full responsibility of coaching, goals, and performance management

Preferred Qualifications

You can comfortably manipulate large datasets, create new analytical frameworks, and develop actionable insights. Strong knowledge of SQL or some other querying language and using those tools to help synthesize complex information is a plus

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits
• Employee Travel Credits