Senior Finance Analyst — The Flex

Overview

This role is for a Senior Finance Analyst supporting a fast-growing, multi-country flexible accommodation business. The position is not a traditional accounting role—success depends on owning key financial processes, analyzing business performance, and working closely with leadership to improve profitability as the organization scales.

Responsibilities span financial reporting and controls, payments reconciliation, budgeting and forecasting, cash flow analysis, and building reporting systems for management.

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; 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 resolved promptly.
• 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.
• 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 that provide management 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 help plan 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 senior management.

Requirements

• Highly analytical and comfortable 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—understands what numbers mean for the business.
• 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 an ability to identify opportunities to improve and automate finance processes.
• Ambitious with a desire 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 supporting finance in multi-country operations and/or multi-jurisdiction statutory filings.
• Experience building dashboards and automated reporting systems.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

Location

Multi-city and multi-country operations are supported; this role is part of the international team building financial infrastructure behind a global business.

What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)

• Build a strong understanding of financial performance across every part of the business.
• Create reliable monthly management reporting.
• 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.

Candidates Who Should Not Apply

• Those seeking a corporate 9-to-5 role with narrowly defined responsibilities.
• Candidates who need constant direction.
• Those uncomfortable being held accountable for their work.
• Those who prefer reporting numbers rather than understanding and improving them.
• Candidates who enjoy gossiping or talking about people behind their backs.
• Those looking for a stable, slow-moving, dead-end role.
• Those who do not aim to become best-in-class at what they do.