About the Role
As a Cluster Finance Manager, you will play a vital role in enhancing the hospitality experience for every guest by overseeing all hotel financial operations. Your expertise will ensure that financial strategies align with the hotels' strategic goals, ultimately optimizing profitability and efficiency.
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Responsibilities
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.
Qualifications
What It Takes to Make the Stay
At the company, 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.
- A focus on the Now, bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.
Join an Award-Winning Workplace Culture
At the company, we don’t just deliver exceptional experiences for our guests—we build an exceptional workplace for the Team Members who make it all possible. As a global leader in hospitality, we’ve welcomed more than 3 billion guests worldwide, staying true to our founding vision: to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality. Our award-winning culture has earned us repeated recognition on the World’s Best Workplaces list by Great Place to Work and Fortune. With our suite of world-class brands and a commitment to providing the best stay for every guest, we’re setting new standards for the future of travel. Whether you’re starting your career or exploring something new, the company supports your journey every step of the way. Come for the job, stay for the career—and help us make every stay a little more magical.
