Senior Finance Analyst — The Flex

Overview

This role involves building and improving the organization’s financial infrastructure for a fast-growing, international business that operates and manages properties across multiple cities and countries. Responsibilities span financial analysis, reporting, budgeting, payments, controls, and business performance.

As a Senior Finance Analyst, you will work closely with founders and senior leadership, own critical finance processes, and provide insights to support better decision-making as the business scales. The role is not a traditional accounting position.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve day-to-day financial reporting and controls, ensuring figures presented to management are complete, validated, and fully supported.
• Identify manual and repetitive finance processes; design more efficient workflows and partner with engineering teams to automate them.
• Reconcile payments from Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, direct bookings, and other distribution channels, ensuring expected payments are received accurately and on time.
• Reconcile bank accounts and incoming payments; ensure expected funds are received, accurately recorded, and that discrepancies are promptly resolved.
• Track accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Review supplier invoices and company expenses.
• Manage statutory filings and corporate compliance across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring submissions are accurate and completed on time.
• Coordinate with external accountants, tax advisers, auditors, and banking partners to maintain accurate accounting records and timely compliance.
• Support landlord and property-owner financial statements where required.
• Build dashboards and reporting systems to provide management with real-time visibility into performance.
• Analyze financial performance by property, city, country, and business unit.
• Build and maintain budgets, forecasts, and financial models.
• Monitor cash flow and support management in planning future capital requirements.
• Identify financial risks and potential revenue leakage.
• Analyze costs to identify opportunities to improve margins.
• Partner with operations teams to understand and reduce property-level costs.
• Support financial due diligence for acquisitions, investments, and new market launches.
• Present insights and recommendations directly to the founders and management team.

Requirements

• Highly analytical with comfort working with numbers.
• Exceptional attention to detail and an uncompromising commitment to accuracy.
• Strong understanding of accounting and financial principles.
• Comfortable working with large volumes of financial and operational data.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Strong reconciliation, financial control, and problem-solving skills.
• Commercial mindset: interpret numbers to understand what they mean for the business.
• High level of ownership and accountability.
• Comfortable working independently and figuring things out.
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change quickly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable communicating directly with senior management.
• Passion for technology, automation, and AI, with a mindset for improving and automating finance processes.
• Ambitious, with interest in taking on significantly more responsibility over time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in accounting, audit, investment banking, private equity, FP&A, consulting, hospitality, real estate, or a high-growth startup.
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or a related analytical field (preferred). Exceptional candidates from other backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)

• Build a strong understanding of the financial performance of every part of the business.
• Create reliable monthly management reporting across the organization.
• Ensure payments from booking platforms and partners are accurately reconciled and all expected funds are received.
• Improve visibility into cash flow, profitability, and unit economics.
• Identify meaningful opportunities to reduce costs and increase margins.
• Automate several previously manual finance processes.
• Become a trusted financial partner to founders and management.
• Take ownership of increasingly important parts of the finance function.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

Location

Not specified.