Senior Finance Manager

Key Accountabilities:

• Financial Controller for the hotel portfolio responsible for managing hotel finance operations, supervising the hotel finance team and ensuring compliance with SOPs and audits.
• Coordinate with Center of Excellence (Shared Service Center) for monthly book closure.
• Monthly MIS preparation and reporting to various stakeholders.
• Preparation and presentation of the monthly/ quarterly board review presentation and presentation for different JV partners.
• Responsible for preparation of annual/long term budgets (3/5 year plans), periodic forecast, monthly performance and all kinds of variance analysis.
• Make presentations for Board meetings.
• Reviewing the results and identification of reasons for variances, conducting discussions with all hotel GMs and department heads for course corrections.
• Conduct reviews and evaluations for cost-reduction opportunities. Driving cost saving initiatives.
• Review of the KBI targets and achievement.
• Responsible for fund management including cashflow preparation.
• Analyze costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results and the company’s actual performance compared to the business plans.
• Building financial models and scenario analysis for decision making
• Reviewing and ensuring a clean Balance Sheet and healthy Finance Assurance Report
• Review Capex proposals including feasibility preparation for Board approval
• Approval for all purchase orders and ensuring budgetary control of all kinds of spends
• Liaise with internal auditors to ensure appropriate monitoring of company finances.
• Correspond with various other departments, discussing company plans and agreeing on future paths to be taken.
• Ad -hoc management analysis and reports
• Participate in the management decision making process by providing analytical business inputs.
• Supervising the hotel finance team, setting goals and reviewing performance.

Mandatory Requirement:

Qualified Chartered Accountant from India with 8- 10-years of post-qualification experience of which minimum 3 years should be as finance controller with a cluster of hotels

• Must be very strong in MS Excel skills and Power-point presentation skills
• Minimum 5 years’ experience of working in business planning, business partnering and analysis role
• Ability to multi-task and work in a challenging fast paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Should have a good orientation around process and controls
• Should be able to manage and supervise team
• Strong presence with the ability to interact with Senior Leadership.

Preferred additional requirement:

Prior experience in business partnering role

• Prior experience of working with B4
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Having working knowledge of Power BI tools will be an advantage