Senior Finance Analyst — The Flex

Overview

The organization is building flexible accommodation across multiple cities and countries, combining hospitality, technology, and operations to make renting a home as simple as booking a hotel.

As the business scales internationally, it is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst to help build the financial infrastructure behind a fast-growing global operation. This role is focused on financial analysis, reporting, controls, and scalable finance processes—not traditional accounting alone.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously 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 resolve discrepancies 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.
• 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 strong comfort working with numbers.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a 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 and interprets numbers to drive business decisions.
• 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 and looking 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.
• 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 a relevant analytical field (Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or similar).
• Relevant experience in one or more of: 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)

• Builds strong understanding of financial performance across every part of the organization.
• Creates reliable monthly management reporting across the business.
• Ensures payments from booking platforms and partners are accurately reconciled and expected funds are received.
• Improves visibility into cash flow, profitability, and unit economics.
• Identifies meaningful opportunities to reduce costs and increase margins.
• Automates several previously manual finance processes.
• Becomes a trusted financial partner to the founders and management team.
• Takes ownership of increasingly important parts of the finance function.

Not a Fit If

• You are looking for a corporate 9-to-5 role with narrowly defined responsibilities.
• You need someone to constantly tell you what to do.
• You are uncomfortable being held accountable for your work.
• You prefer reporting numbers rather than understanding and improving them.
• You enjoy gossiping or talking about people behind their backs.
• You are looking for a stable, slow-moving, dead-end job.
• You do not aim to become one of the best in your field.