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Team Lead, Financial Analytics, AI/ML Optimization
Location
Canada
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Team Lead, Financial Analytics, AI/ML Optimization
Hopper
• Provide actionable insights to inform business decisions based on financial analytics and data. • Drive the strategy, governance, and execution of the data warehouse for the general ledger. • Build and lead a center of excellence for cloud and performance reporting, including infrastructure management and KPIs for the finance team and business units. • Define, drive, implement, and measure the success of the financial AI automation roadmap, in partnership with FP&A, accounting, and data teams. • Establish data pipelines and the foundational components for AI models. • Understand and optimize our GCP infrastructure costs, in partnership with engineering and FinOps. • Position the finance organization as the single source of truth for financial and commercial performance, and create self-service analytics tools for key stakeholders. • Manage a team of 4 engineers and 1 Finance & Strategy Manager. • Implement internal controls and support external audits related to data governance.
Job Requirements
- 15+ years of work experience in the travel industry and/or SaaS.
- Bachelor's degree required; Master’s degree strongly preferred or equivalent experience.
- Preferably an engineering background.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, GCP, and data science, with a proven ability to be hands-on with code.
- Understanding of systems based on large language models (LLMs), prompt design, and AI model evaluation frameworks.
- Familiarity with automation environments and observability tools (Amplitude, Datadog, Looker) to assess reliability and performance.
- Strong skills in reconciling data from large, multi-source datasets.
- A natural tendency toward first-principles thinking — questioning assumptions, testing process resilience, and always seeking to understand the “why.”
- Excellent communication skills with senior leadership and external partners.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a proven track record of building from the ground up.
Benefits
- A well-funded, established startup with global ambitions, offering a competitive salary and the potential for a pre-IPO equity participation program (stock options).
- Hopper covers 100% of the premiums for your group insurance plan.
- Comprehensive life and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Health Spending Account (HSA) covering eligible medical and dental expenses.
- Free, unlimited access to Dialogue telemedicine services for all employees and their dependents, anytime and anywhere.
- Access to a retirement savings plan (RRSP) with automatic pre-tax payroll contributions each pay period.
- Extremely generous parental leave, well above industry norms (ask us about it!).
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
- Travel allowances via “Carrot Credit.”
- On-demand access to coworking spaces via FlexDesk AND a home-office allowance.
- An entrepreneurial culture where pushing boundaries and taking risks is encouraged.
- Open, direct communication with company leadership and business leaders.
- Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
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