Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You
The role aims to be recognized as trusted advisors to the business. This role supports their finance leader to develop their finance team and enables them to Thrive. The role communicates with impact to all stakeholders, ensures a robust control and compliance environment and is aware of the EMEA finance management company value proposition, which is attractive to existing and new owners. The role partners with our business to maximize profit for our shareholders and owners and supports the finance leader to innovate and to deliver an industry leading efficient finance organization.
Picture yourself brightening someone’s day. When you join our hotels team, that’s exactly what you’ll do every time you come to work! As a Finance Manager , you’re not just overseeing all hotel financial operations – you’re spreading the light and warmth of hospitality by delivering memorable experiences that make the stay for every guest.
Here's what you'll do during a typical day:
- Drive financial strategy: Oversee all financial operations across the hotel portfolio, ensuring alignment with the hotels’ strategic goals to optimize profitability and efficiency
- Oversee financial planning and analysis: Direct the preparation of annual plans, projections, and budgets, providing financial insights to support business decisions
- Advise leadership and key stakeholders: Act as the primary financial advisor to hotel management, Area/Cluster General Managers, Owners, and Asset Managers, offering data-driven recommendations to enhance financial performance
- Build cross-functional partnerships: Develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders including Hotel Finance, Commercial, IT, Procurement, Human Resources, Operations, Shared Service Centres, and Regional Operations Finance
- Ensure financial compliance: Uphold adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and hotel policies, safeguarding hotel assets through strong financial controls while performing all finance activities within the policy, regulatory, and contractual framework
- Optimize financial reporting: Oversee systems and processes to drive accuracy, efficiency, and transparency in financial reporting.
- Monitor and approve financial transactions: Oversee and authorize hotel sales, purchases, salaries, and expenses to maintain fiscal responsibility and operational efficiency
- Cultivate a high-performing team: Drive engagement and retention through performance management, professional development, and recognition programs.
- Ability to analyze large volume of complex financial information from many sources and create reports, forecasts, and projections
- Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to effectively address any issue in collaboration with others as appropriate.
- Ability to proactively identify and prevent potential problems.
- Ability to help develop problem solving skills among direct reports and other team members as appropriate.
- Ability to take initiative to identify, prioritize and implement all elements required for team to fulfill responsibilities.
- Ability to manage and develop staff, Detail oriented and organized.
- Ability to develop presentations and effectively present to all levels of company, hotels & owners.
Strong communication and negotiation skills (all levels of management and external customers).
Proficient in MS Excel, Word and Outlook with the ability to quickly learn new programs when required.
Additional preferences:
- Master’s or bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 3-5 years of finance leadership experience, preferably within the hospitality industry.
- Strong knowledge of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
- Experience in managing financial controls, compliance, and audit processes.
- Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and business partnering skills.
What It Takes to Make the Stay
At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:
A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality . Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership . A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now , bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.
