Strategic Finance Manager

Overview

The organization is seeking a Strategic Finance Manager to help build the financial systems, controls, and insights needed to support rapid global growth.

This role goes beyond conventional accounting. You will partner closely with founders and senior leadership, take ownership of key financial processes, evaluate business performance, and provide insights that enable better decisions as the business scales.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously strengthen day-to-day financial controls and reporting to ensure management numbers are accurate, validated, complete, and supported by reliable evidence.
• Identify repetitive and manual finance tasks, design more efficient processes, and collaborate with engineering teams to automate them.
• Reconcile payments from Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, direct reservations, and other distribution partners; confirm expected payments are received correctly and on schedule.
• Reconcile bank accounts and incoming transactions; ensure funds are properly received and recorded while investigating and resolving discrepancies quickly.
• Monitor and manage accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Review supplier invoices and expenses incurred across the organization.
• Oversee statutory filings and corporate compliance requirements across several jurisdictions, ensuring submissions are correct and completed within required deadlines.
• Coordinate with external accountants, tax advisers, auditors, and banking partners to maintain accurate financial records and ensure timely compliance.
• Assist with financial statements for landlords and property owners when required.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools to provide management with real-time visibility into business performance.
• Evaluate financial results across individual properties, cities, countries, and business units.
• Create and maintain company budgets, forecasts, and financial models.
• Track cash flow and support planning for future funding and capital needs.
• Detect financial risks, discrepancies, and potential sources of revenue leakage.
• Review the cost base to identify opportunities to strengthen margins.
• Partner with operational teams to understand, control, and reduce costs at the property level.
• Contribute to financial due diligence for acquisitions, investments, and expansion into new markets.
• Communicate financial findings, recommendations, and actionable insights directly to founders and the management team.

Requirements

• Highly analytical and comfortable working with numbers.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a strong commitment to financial accuracy.
• Strong understanding of accounting concepts and financial principles.
• Ability to work effectively with significant volumes of financial and operational data.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets.
• Strong capabilities in financial reconciliation, controls, and problem-solving.
• Commercial mindset: go beyond reporting figures by understanding their meaning and business implications.
• Strong ownership, responsibility, and accountability.
• Ability to work independently, find solutions, and navigate unfamiliar challenges.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment where priorities may evolve quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including confidence communicating with senior management.
• Genuine interest in technology, automation, and AI; ability to identify opportunities to improve and automate finance processes.
• Ambition to grow quickly and take on substantially greater responsibility over time.
• Experience in accounting, audit, investment banking, private equity, FP&A, consulting, hospitality, real estate, or a high-growth startup would be highly valuable.
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or another analytical discipline is preferred (exceptional applicants from other backgrounds are encouraged to apply).

What Success Will Look Like

During the first 6–12 months:

• Develop a detailed understanding of the financial performance of every major business area.
• Establish dependable monthly management reporting across the organization.
• Ensure payments from booking platforms and commercial partners are fully reconciled and expected funds are received.
• Improve visibility into cash flow, profitability, and unit economics.
• Identify meaningful opportunities to lower costs and improve margins.
• Automate several finance processes that were previously completed manually.
• Become a trusted financial partner to the founders and management team.
• Take responsibility for increasingly important areas within the finance function.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary together with performance-based incentives.
• Long-term career progression as the organization continues its international expansion.

Location

Not specified in the provided job description.