Strategic Finance Manager

Overview

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

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

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously strengthen day-to-day financial controls and reporting, ensuring management numbers are accurate, validated, complete, and supported by reliable evidence.
• Identify repetitive and manual finance tasks; create more efficient processes and partner 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 within required deadlines.
• Coordinate with external accountants, tax advisers, auditors, and banking partners to maintain accurate financial records and support timely compliance.
• Assist with financial statements for landlords and property owners whenever required.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools to provide real-time visibility into company performance.
• Evaluate financial results across individual properties, cities, countries, and business units.
• Create and maintain 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 company’s 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 management.

Requirements

• Highly analytical with strong comfort working with numbers.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a 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 to understand meaning and implications for the wider business.
• Strong sense of ownership, responsibility, and accountability.
• Confidence to work independently, find solutions, and navigate unfamiliar challenges.
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment where priorities may evolve quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Confidence communicating and working directly with senior management.
• Genuine interest in technology, automation, and AI, with the ability to identify opportunities to improve and automate finance processes.
• Ambition to grow quickly and assume 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.

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.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary plus performance-based incentives.

Location

• International role supporting operations across multiple cities and countries.