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 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 reporting is accurate, validated, complete, and supported by reliable evidence.
• Identify repetitive and manual finance tasks; create 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 company expenses.
• 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 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 and 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 senior management.

Requirements

• Highly analytical, comfortable working with numbers.
• Exceptional attention to detail and 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: understand the meaning and business implications of financial results.
• Strong sense of ownership, responsibility, and accountability.
• Confidence working independently, finding solutions, and navigating unfamiliar challenges.
• Ability to perform in a fast-paced environment where priorities may evolve quickly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Confidence to communicate and work directly 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 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.

What Success Will Look Like

During your first 6–12 months, you will have:

• Developed a detailed understanding of financial performance across every major area.
• Established dependable monthly management reporting across the organization.
• Ensured that payments from booking platforms and commercial partners are fully reconciled and that all expected funds are received.
• Significantly improved visibility into cash flow, profitability, and unit economics.
• Uncovered meaningful opportunities to lower costs and improve margins.
• Automated several finance processes that were previously completed manually.
• Established yourself as a trusted financial partner to founders and management.
• Taken responsibility for increasingly important areas of the finance function.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary together with performance-based incentives.
• Exceptional long-term career progression as the business continues international expansion.

Location

Not specified. The organization operates and manages properties across multiple cities and countries.