Lead, Finance Analytics & Enablement AI/ML
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About the Role
Hopper is looking for a Lead, Finance Analytics & Enablement AI/ML to own the data warehouse, business intelligence, GCP/AI optimization, and Finance AI enablement strategy. Reporting to the CFO, you will provide actionable insights, lead a Center of Excellence, and manage a team of 4 engineers and 1 manager.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Provide actionable insights to drive business decisions based on finance and data analytics
- Own the data warehouse strategy, governance and execution of the finance ledger
- Build and lead a Center of Excellence for reporting including owning infrastructure and metrics across finance and business units
- Create, own, implement and track success of the Finance AI automation roadmap in partnership with FP&A, accounting and data
- Establish data pipeline and AI model foundation
- Understand and optimize GCP infrastructure costs in partnership with engineering and Financial Operations
- Establish Finance as the single source of truth for financial and business performance and create self service analytics for key stakeholders
- Manage a team of 4 engineers and 1 finance and strategy manager
- Establish internal controls and support external audits related to data governance
Requirements
- 15+ years of work experience in travel and/or SaaS
- Bachelor's Degree, with a strong preference for a Master's degree or equivalent experience
- Engineering background preferred
- Fluency in SQL, Python, GCP and Data Science, hands on coding ability
- Understanding of LLM based systems, prompt design, and AI model evaluation frameworks
- Familiarity with automation frameworks and observability tools (Amplitude, Datadog, Looker)
- Strong data reconciliation skills across large, multi source datasets
- A bias toward first principles thinking
- Clear communicator with senior leadership and external partners
- Comfort with ambiguity and ground zero building
Full Job Posting
About the Role
- Hopper is looking for a Lead, Finance Analytics & Enablement AI/ML to own our data warehouse, business intelligence, GCP/AI optimization, and Finance AI enablement strategy.
- You will be a key business partner across the organization, managing partner relationships across a broad range of commercial arrangements, reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer.
What Would Your Day to day Look Like
- Provide actionable insights to drive business decisions based on finance and data analytics.
- Own the data warehouse strategy, governance and execution of the finance ledger.
- Build and lead a Center of Excellence for reporting including owning infrastructure and metrics across finance and the business units.
- Create, own, implement and track success of the Finance AI automation roadmap in partnership with FP&A, accounting and data.
- Establish data pipeline and AI model foundation.
- Understand and optimize our GCP infrastructure costs in partnership with engineering and Financial Operations.
- Establish Finance as the single source of truth for financial and business performance and create self service analytics for key stakeholders.
- Manage a team of 4 engineers and 1 finance and strategy manager.
- Establish internal controls and support external audits related to data governance.
An Ideal Candidate Has
- Work experience 15+ years in travel and/or SaaS.
- Bachelor's Degree, with a strong preference for a Master's degree or equivalent experience.
- Engineering background preferred.
- Fluency in SQL, Python, GCP and Data Science, hands on coding ability.
- Understanding of LLM based systems, prompt design, and AI model evaluation frameworks.
- Familiarity with automation frameworks and observability tools (Amplitude, Datadog, Looker) to assess reliability and performance.
- Strong data reconciliation skills across large, multi source datasets.
- A bias toward first principles thinking — questioning assumptions, stress testing processes, and always asking why something works the way it does.
- Clear communicator with senior leadership and external partners.
- Comfort with ambiguity and ground zero building.
Perks and Benefits
- Well funded and proven startup with competitive salary and pre IPO equity packages.
- Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for group insurance plan.
- Life, short term and long term disability coverage.
- HSA that covers eligible medical and dental expenses.
- Access to Dialogue’s telemedicine services.
- RRSP plan with automatic pre tax withdrawals per pay.
- Generous parental leave, much above industry standards.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
- Access to co working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work from home stipend.
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
- Open communication with management and company leadership.
More About Hopper
- Hopper is on a mission to become the leading travel platform globally, powering Hopper’s mobile app, website and B2B business HTS.
- The Hopper platform serves hundreds of millions of travelers globally.
- Hopper has been named the #1 most innovative company in travel by Fast Company.
- Hopper has raised over CAD 750 million USD of private capital.
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