Junior or Entry Level SOX and Financial Product Portfolio Manager
Overview
Have you ever had the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of people in a meaningful way and help them enjoy time away with their friends and families building memories? That is what we do here at HomeAway.com. We are the leading vacation rental website in the world with more than 1 million online bookable properties listed.
Our broader mission as part of the Expedia portfolio is to Revolutionize Travel through the Power of Technology.
Values:
- We are Passionate about Travel: We are a company of travelers who wake up every day with passion for what we do.
- We are Innovative: We use our collective intelligence to invent technology and create products to simplify and improve travel for our customers and partners.
- We are Enterprising: We relentlessly seek out opportunity. We take risks, act with speed and purpose, and always find a way to remove obstacles and get the job done.
The Opportunity:
We are searching for a SOX Compliance Portfolio Manager to support the HomeAway Product & Technology teams. This role will be with our HomeAway product & technology team(s) in beautiful Austin, TX. We’re looking for a dynamic financial SOX compliance project manager and organizer that will support the strategic portfolio planning, Financial and SOX compliance and operations of the HomeAway product & technology organization.
Key Responsibilities & Experiences
- Administer day-to-day team investment portfolio and associated personnel, finance, procurements, accounting, SOX, and other associated dependencies.
- Define & streamline planning and prioritization processes. Identify areas of business & team performance that can be improved, provide insightful recommendations and drive efficiencies for the leadership team.
-Ensure accurate and timely information flow to and from the technology leadership team.
- Define and manage team compliance against key business requirements, regulations, and policies.
- Support regular team communications, aligned with defined strategy goals spanning our Product, Platform, Process, Partnership, and People objectives.
- Consult portfolio leaders included executive leadership team spanning Technology, Product, Finance, Accounting, and other x-company functional teams.
- Responsible for capturing and distributing key meeting points, gathering action items, and follow-through to ensure actions are tracked and completed.
- Provide leadership on several cross-team projects, requiring constant communications, tracking of status, and drive for results.
- Support design & development of new tools and reports to support portfolio management of the organization.
Required Skills:
- Strong organizational skills and proven program/project management experience. Demonstrated ability to plan, organize portfolio planning based activities with varied deadlines.
- Strong verbal, written communication skills.
- Effectively present information in one-on-one and group situations to management, clients, and other employees of the organization.
- Demonstrate positive influencing skills.
- Solid business acumen & analytical skills for with ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an ability to function in the abstract.
- 1-5 years’ experience as a [project, portfolio, or business manager] in a complex corporate environment.
- Experience in multiple functional areas within large multinational corporations.
- Advanced skills in Outlook, Keynote, PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
- Desired skills in advanced analytics tools with skills in Database & Web technology, including experience in HTML, SQL, and other Internet & data analytics technologies.
Education:
- Business or Technology Degree, or related experience.
Compensation:
HomeAway will structure a competitive compensation package to attract qualified candidates.
Benefits:
- Competitive health and insurance benefits
- Competitive salary
- Target annual bonus or commission
- Paid vacation and sick time
- Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Free snacks and beverages
- Frequent company update talks with our leadership team
- Free listing on HomeAway.com
- Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk
- Discounted Metro & Rail pass