Director, Finance Transformation

Job description

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car and vacation package. We’re also transforming business travel with a new corporate travel solution, KAYAK for Business. As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a travel company that operates a portfolio of global metasearch brands including momondo, Cheapflights and HotelsCombined, among others. From start-up to industry leader, innovation is in our DNA and every employee has an opportunity to make their mark. Our focus is on building the best travel search engine to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. KAYAK is seeking a Director, Finance Transformation (Finance Systems) to set the strategic direction for our global finance systems, aligning product portfolios with long-term business goals and enterprise architecture! You will lead multiple product areas to ensure that prioritization, governance, and delivery drive measurable business value at scale. This role is responsible for influencing senior stakeholders, developing top-tier product talent, campaigning and driving the Finance departments AI roadmap and strategy and building a cohesive, future-ready systems ecosystem. By moving beyond feature delivery, this leader focuses on strategic outcomes; such as accelerated financial closes, reduced manual effort, and strengthened controls to ensure the finance tech stack acts as a high-leverage asset for the entire organization. This role is required to work from our London office 3 days per week. In this role, you will: Set the strategic direction for KAYAK's global finance systems, ensuring technology investments align with business goals and support a scalable, well-governed architecture. Serve as the primary authority for our NetSuite ERP ecosystem, standardizing workflows across related tools including Pontus (KAYAK’s internal financial reporting system), BlackLine, and FloQast, and own the multi-year Finance Systems roadmap with a focus on shortening close cycles, reducing reconciliation risk, and improving data integrity. Oversee governance for NetSuite configurations, customizations, and upgrade cycles, balancing agility with SOX requirements, and define integration architecture so that transaction, billing, and reporting systems exchan…