Senior Finance Analyst — The Flex

Overview

This role involves building and owning key finance functions for a fast-growing, international flexible accommodation operator. You will partner closely with founders and senior leadership, ensure robust financial reporting and controls, and analyze business performance to support better decision-making as the organization scales.

The position is not a traditional accounting role. Responsibilities span financial analysis, reporting, payments, budgeting, forecasting, and business performance across multiple cities and countries.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve day-to-day financial reporting and controls, ensuring management figures 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; ensure expected payments are received accurately and on time.
• Reconcile bank accounts and incoming payments; ensure expected funds are received, accurately recorded, and 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 accurate submissions and on-time completion.
• Work 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 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 planning for future capital requirements.
• Identify financial risks and potential revenue leakage.
• Analyze costs and 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 founders and the management team.

Requirements

• Highly analytical with strong 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; you understand what numbers mean for business performance.
• High level of ownership and accountability.
• Comfortable working independently and figuring things out.
• Able 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 and seeking to take on significantly more responsibility over time.
• Experience in accounting, audit, investment banking, private equity, FP&A, consulting, hospitality, real estate, or a high-growth startup is highly valued.
• A degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or a related analytical field is preferred; exceptional candidates from other backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in one or more of: accounting, audit, investment banking, private equity, FP&A, consulting, hospitality, real estate, or a high-growth startup.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

Location

• Multi-city and multi-country role (statutory filings and corporate compliance across multiple jurisdictions).