Strategic Finance Manager

Overview

This role involves serving as the Strategic Finance Manager for an international flexible accommodation operator. The organization operates and manages properties across multiple cities and countries and is expanding its global footprint.

The position focuses on building financial systems, controls, and management insights to support rapid growth. Work spans accounting, financial analysis, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and performance evaluation, with close collaboration across operations, revenue management, property teams, and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously strengthen day-to-day financial controls and reporting to ensure that all management figures are 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, confirming that 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 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 company budgets, forecasts, and financial models.
• Track cash flow and support management 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 property-level costs.
• 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 an uncompromising approach 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—beyond reporting figures, able to interpret meaning and implications for the wider business.
• Strong ownership, responsibility, and accountability.
• Confidence to work independently, find solutions, and navigate unfamiliar challenges.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Confidence to communicate and work directly with senior management.
• Interest in technology, automation, and AI, including 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.

What Success Will Look Like (First 6–12 Months)

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

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary together with performance-based incentives.

Location

• Not specified in the provided job description.