About the Departments: Finance

The Finance team is an international group of financial professionals dedicated to supporting our global business, protecting company assets, and providing strategic analysis, budgeting, and reporting to support the company’s objectives. The team plays a critical role to ensure the company’s long-term financial health and sustainability by managing resources, optimizing financial performance, ensuring compliance with regulations, and providing strategic insights to support decision-making across international operations.

The department is comprised of several teams, which include the below:

• Accounts Payable: Manages vendor payments and employee expense reporting, ensuring accuracy, contract compliance, and strong financial controls.
• Accounting & Financial Reporting: Maintains global financial records with precision, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, accuracy, and transparency in reporting.
• Financial Planning & Analysis: Provides strategic insights through budgeting, forecasting, and data analysis to drive informed decision-making.

By joining the Finance team at Backroads, you’ll be part of a group that values building excellent and efficient processes and fostering a positive employee experience that rewards high performance with growth opportunities.

Global Cash Management

• Monitor daily cash positions across multiple countries and currencies.
• Lead the preparation and execution of cash flow forecasts, ensuring accurate projections and proactive liquidity management.
• Prepare and/or review bank account reconciliations for international accounts, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Develop, implement and manage intercompany Transfer Pricing Services Agreements, ensuring efficient cash transfers, compliance with contractual terms, and proper accounting treatment.
• Drive cash flow optimization by strategically managing intercompany transfers.

Banking Relationships

• Manage global banking relationships, leading the evaluation of banking services and driving negotiations for competitive fees to optimize cost efficiencies.
• Oversee global online banking platforms, ensuring robust controls are in place for banking permissions, conducting periodic access reviews, and implementing process improvements.
• Lead periodic assessments of banking account structures, identifying optimization opportunities, recommending strategic improvements, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance efficiency.

Purchasing Card Program(s)

• Manage the administration of global purchasing card program(s) for field and office staff, leading the addition of country-specific programs for subsidiaries and ensuring alignment with company policies.
• Analyze program usage trends in collaboration with the Expense Reporting Team, identifying areas for optimization and recommending improvements in controls.
• Oversee card program controls, proactively monitor card limits and implement fraud prevention measures.

Foreign Exchange (FX) Management

• Identify and analyze FX exposure across the company's operations.
• Develop and implement new hedging strategies to mitigate FX risk.
• Monitor and assess market fluctuations, providing insights and recommendations to optimize hedging effectiveness and minimize financial impact.
• Oversee and enhance foreign currency supplier payment provider(s).
• Lead periodic evaluation of foreign payment processing models, conducting cost-benefit analyses and recommending in-house or external solutions to optimize efficiency.

Cash Management - Short - Term Investments

• Manage the relationship with the investment management company, leading investment performance evaluation and ensuring accurate and timely investment reporting.
• Ensure compliance with the approved investment policy by monitoring the investment management company’s adherence to guidelines.
• Conduct and present periodic investment options analyses, providing strategic recommendations to optimize returns and assess potential changes, including the evaluation of alternative investment management company.

Tax Compliance:

• Collaborate with external tax consultants to ensure adherence to local and international tax regulations, including reporting requirements.
• Monitor global tax and regulatory changes and assist in implementing necessary updates to internal processes to maintain compliance.

Reporting and Analysis

• Develop and present comprehensive treasury reports for senior management, including cash flow forecasts, FX exposure analysis, and investment performance summaries.
• Design and implement key treasury metrics and dashboards to enhance oversight, improve monitoring, and drive efficiency in cash and treasury activities.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in treasury accounting, cash flow forecasting, FX risk management, and financial reporting.
• Experience managing multi-currency cash operations, FX exposure, and intercompany transactions.
• Proficiency in online banking platforms and ERP systems.
• Exceptional Excel skills and proficiency in all Microsoft Office tools.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, working with internal and external cross-functional teams across different regions.
• Fluency in English (additional languages a plus).

About Backroads:

At Backroads we’re passionate about connecting our guests with so many of the most beautiful places in the world. We use our four-plus decades of expertise to create exceptional biking, hiking, and multi-adventure trips in over 50 countries for people wanting a deeper and richer travel experience. We travel on land as well as by small luxury ships on active river and ocean cruises. Our trips are for all ages – including dedicated itineraries just for families. We are known for our unwavering attention to quality. We have a dynamic work environment and a strong company culture.

Why Backroads:

At Backroads, we value every single member of our staff, and we’re proud to offer a dynamic work environment that enables growth. Your colleagues will be some of the most dedicated, competent, active, and fun people you will ever meet. A job at Backroads is unlike any other job you will ever have – you will be challenged, you will be inspired, and you will be gratified. No matter what you do here, you will be part of something that makes us all proud – delivering authentic, enriching, and often profoundly life-changing experiences. On top of all that, we have some pretty great benefits and perks! For example our US office employees receive:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match, flex plan, and parental leave
• Generous paid time off, 8 paid holidays, and additional time off to go on Backroads trips!
• Complimentary trips and trip discounts for employees, and trip discounts for employees’ friends and family!
• Outdoor industry discounts and deals
• Alternative commuter incentives for biking, walking, carpooling, or using public transportation to get to work
• Wellness programs and regular lunchtime bike rides and yoga

Backroads is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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