At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. The Fintech Commercial team is the glue between external Fintech partners (schemes, PSPs, issuers) and Agoda’s Finance department. We represent the business side of Agoda’s “Pay-in” (Consumer Payments) and “Pay-out” (Business payments) pillars within the Agoda Fintech ecosystem. Together with our Fintech partners and cross-functional stakeholders, we identify and implement payments optimization initiatives, launch new payment methods and drive Fintech innovation across Agoda. **The Opportunity:** We are looking for a talented, results-oriented Manager, Fintech Commercial to join the Agoda finance team. You will have: * Leverage your analytical skills to run analyses, enhance the data infrastructure in collaboration with our data teams and build business cases. * Work with leading Fintech and payments companies on payments optimization initiatives on a global scale. * Partner with cross-functional Agoda stakeholders: Product, Engineering, Data, Legal, Finance teams, Customer Services and more. Successful candidates tend to have strong analytical and data skills and are self-starters who are comfortable working in environments defined by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. In addition, good performers in this role are organized, possess effective interpersonal skills and can successfully partner with cross functional teams in a result-oriented manner. **In this Role, you’ll get to:** * Analyze payment method cost and performance data sets to identify optimization opportunities * Collaborate closely with Product and FinTech solutions on Fintech roadmaps, strategic planning and initiative prioritization * Evaluate partnership opportunities with our Fintech partners in form of business cases to realize cost savings or create incremental revenue streams * Become a subject matter expert for Pay-in topics across Agoda and fulfill ad-hoc Finance requests to educate stakeholders about payments deal economics **What You’ll Need to Succeed:** * 4-8 years of professional experience in fields like Analytics, Consulting, Strategy & Operations, Data Science or similar; experience in online or e-commerce business preferred * 2+ years of experience in payments or Fintech, ideally on the merchant-side in a role that requires you to analyze payment performance as your day-to-day job * Bachelor’s degree in any field as minimum requirement; MBA or master’s degree in business / finance / management preferred since strong business acumen is required in this role * Strong numerical and analytical skills (e.g., running queries with SQL, building dashboards) with keen attention to detail * Demonstrated track record of successfully identifying and executing complex,data-driven strategies that resulted in measurable revenue growth and margin improvement * Ability to effectively communicate proposals to potential partners and internal stakeholders * Willingness to move quickly, adapt well to change, and thrive in dynamic environments; professional “get it done” attitude and strong work ethic * Fluency in English is required
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At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world. Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with our great deals across our millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide. No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you’re ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us. Fintech is one of the fastest growing areas in Agoda and we are rapidly expanding our tech team. We work closely with the finance business team and our Fintech product owners to reduce risk, drive efficiencies and move on new market opportunities in this exciting field. We have a wide range of projects from traditional finance to cutting-edge customer fintech. For example, reconciliation using Big Data technologies, growing and optimizing customer payments options, tax calculations in milli-second r esponse times and a mesh of supplier payment options like virtual credit cards. It’s a hot field and the perfect mix of data engineering and backend engineering. In this role, you will not only develop robust backend systems but also architect and maintain scalable data pipelines and storage solutions that support complex data collection, processing, and analysis. Your dual expertise in backend and data engineering will play a crucial role in optimizing our financial technology solutions and driving informed business decisions through reliable data insights. In This Role, You’ll Get to * Think and own the full life cycle of our products, not just a single piece of code – from business requirements, technology selection, coding standards, agile development, unit and application testing, to CI/CD and proper monitoring * Design, develop and maintain platforms and data pipelines across fintech * Boost System Performance: build systems that are stable, scalable, and highly performant to meet the dynamic demands of the financial landscape * Write great code and help others write great code – mentor people in your team and wider * Collaborate with other teams and departments * Exceptional problem-solving skills coupled with a strategic mindset are essential. You possess the ability to adapt to new changes and the foresight to anticipate future needs. Leadership at Agoda isn’t just managing tasks but inspiring innovation and driving vision into reality * Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration: work with diverse teams to drive forward product and technology goals * Shape our future team: Play a pivotal role in recruiting and onboarding exceptional talent What You’ll Need to Succeed * **8+ years** of experience with strong proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Scala with a proven track record of developing high-performance applications in production settings. Insightful experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, real-time processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark), and advanced knowledge of SQL and data architecture * Thinks in systems: their edge cases, failure modes, and life cycles * Uses a metrics driven approach and can make informed decisions using data * You are passionate about the craft of software development and constantly work to improve your knowledge and skills * Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies * Excellent verbal and written English communication skills * Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards It’s Great If You Have * Experience working in a modern FinTech or Payments organization * Domain knowledge in any of these areas: financial reconciliation, financial reporting, tax, payout methods like virtual credit cards or customer payments * Hands-on experience working with technologies like Spark for data processing, ETLs for data pipelines and queueing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) * Core engineering infrastructure tools like GitLab for source control and Continuous Integration, Kubernetes * Experience developing, maintaining and debugging large-scale distributed systems * Experience in leading projects, initiatives and/or teams, with full ownership of the systems involved This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand (Relocation Provided)