Strategic Finance Manager

Overview

This role involves leading strategic finance operations for an organization that manages flexible accommodation properties across multiple cities and countries. As Strategic Finance Manager, you will build and strengthen financial systems, controls, and reporting to support rapid global growth. The position blends accounting, financial analysis, management reporting, reconciliation, budgeting, and business performance insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously strengthen day-to-day financial controls and reporting to ensure accuracy, validation, completeness, and supporting evidence for management numbers.
• 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, confirming expected payments are received correctly and on schedule.
• Reconcile bank accounts and incoming transactions, ensuring 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 by 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 company performance.
• Evaluate financial results across 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 and identify opportunities to strengthen margins.
• Partner with operational teams to understand, control, and reduce costs at property level.
• Support financial due diligence for acquisitions, investments, and expansion into new markets.
• Communicate financial findings, recommendations, and actionable insights directly to founders and senior management.

Requirements

• Highly analytical approach with comfort working with numbers and large volumes of financial and operational data.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a commitment to financial accuracy.
• Strong understanding of accounting concepts and financial principles.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets.
• Proven capability in financial reconciliation, controls, and problem-solving.
• Commercial mindset: interpret figures for business impact, not only reporting.
• Strong ownership, responsibility, and accountability.
• Ability to work independently, find solutions, and navigate unfamiliar challenges.
• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment where priorities may change quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Confidence communicating and working directly with senior management.
• Genuine interest in technology, automation, and AI, including the ability to identify opportunities to improve and automate finance processes.
• Ambition to grow quickly and take on substantially greater responsibility over time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in accounting, audit, investment banking, private equity, FP&A, consulting, hospitality, real estate, or a high-growth startup.
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or another analytical discipline (exceptional applicants from other backgrounds are encouraged to apply).

Success Criteria (First 6–12 Months)

• Build a detailed understanding of financial performance across every major area.
• Establish dependable monthly management reporting across the organization.
• Ensure booking-platform and partner payments are fully reconciled and all expected funds are received.
• Improve visibility into cash flow, profitability, and unit economics.
• Identify meaningful opportunities to lower costs and improve margins.
• Automate multiple finance processes previously completed manually.
• Become a trusted financial partner to founders and management.
• Take increasing responsibility across key areas of the finance function.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

• Multi-city and multi-country operations (no single location specified).