Overview
This role supports a fast-growing international business with a global property footprint. The position involves owning critical finance processes, analyzing performance across the organization, and helping leadership make better decisions as the business scales.
This is not a traditional accounting-only role. You will work closely with founders and senior leadership, with direct involvement across reporting, payments, budgeting, and business performance.
Responsibilities
- Own and improve day-to-day financial reporting and controls, ensuring figures provided 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 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 accurate and on-time submissions.
- 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 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 help plan future capital requirements.
- Identify financial risks and potential revenue leakage.
- Analyze costs and identify opportunities to improve margins.
- Work 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 and large volumes of financial and operational data.
- Exceptional attention to detail and an uncompromising commitment to accuracy.
- Strong understanding of accounting and financial principles.
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
- Strong reconciliation, financial control, and problem-solving skills.
- Commercial mindset—able to interpret numbers and translate them into business impact.
- High 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 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.
- 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
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or a related analytical field.
- Background experience across accounting, audit, investment banking, private equity, FP&A, consulting, hospitality, real estate, or high-growth startups.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
Location
- Not specified in the provided description.
What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)
- Built strong understanding of financial performance across every part of the business.
- Created reliable monthly management reporting.
- Ensured payments from booking platforms and partners are accurately reconciled and expected funds are received.
- Improved visibility into cash flow, profitability, and unit economics.
- Identified meaningful opportunities to reduce costs and increase margins.
- Automated several previously manual finance processes.
- Became a trusted financial partner to the founders and management team.
- Took ownership of increasingly important parts of the finance function.