The online travel market never stands still. At Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN), we’re smack in the middle of it.

We’re an entrepreneurial start-up inside the world’s biggest travel company. We create the tools and technology that help millions of travellers find the perfect hotels for their next trips. As the world’s largest and fastest-growing affiliate network ($2 billion in sales and counting), we work with over 10,000 partners in 33 countries to turn their web traffic into hotel bookings and happy customers.

We offer the chance to work with the brightest minds in the travel business in an energetic and international work environment focused on innovation, creative problem-solving and collaboration.

As EAN continues to grow we are seeking a  Partner Finance Executive (Credit Control & Mandarin Speaker Required) to join the Financial Operations team based at our Angel office.

Ensure effective management of debtors and perform partner credit and activity analysis and monitoring and work with internal stakeholders and partners to facilitate timely collections.

Credit Control - Monitor and control a portfolio of partner balances, activity and payments against their credit limit, including:

-   Ensuring on time cash collection and allocation

-   Anticipating developments and accounts requiring special attention

-   Timely analysis and reconciliations (sometime complex) of queried / disputed transactions, including discussion with partners and recommendation of resolutions to the Finance Manager

-   Collection of overdue partner accounts within collections policy

-   Credit Management - Ensure Partners trade within existing Credit Limit and adopt measures to encourage trading within agreed Credit Terms

-   Relationship management with partners and internal stakeholders including finance and sales teams

-   Assist with setting up partners on the affiliate collect program in accordance with guidelines

-   Provide ad-hoc finance team support as and when requested

-   Query Resolution for Accounts Payable Partner Commission Payments

-   Be the sole point of contact for EAN Business and Partner Financial queries

-   Resolve queries  by identifying the root cause and liaising with internal stakeholders in ensuring EAN Partners / Stakeholders have the correct information and a comprehensive understanding of the solution to avoid repeat questions

-   Build relationships with Global Stakeholders to ensure the timely and smooth resolution of new and existing challenges

-   Experience: Proven experience in credit control with responsibility for an assigned portfolio of receivables / debtors

-   Analysis: Ability to anticipate implications of activity levels on partner balances against approved credit limits

-   Problem solving: Investigate statements issued against payments received (at a transactional level) and develop a solution for discussion with the Finance Manager

-   Relationship building: Builds effective relationships with internal stakeholders and partners.

-   Collaborative: Excellent track record of working with peers when probeme solving

-   Communication: excellent written and oral communication in both English and Mandarin

-   Computer skills: Strong Excel skills

-   Delivery: Ability to deliver to schedule with minimal supervision

-   Personal attributes: Proactive, ability to deliver under pressure