About the Company
Our client is a well-established hospitality group with a diversified portfolio of hotels, resorts, and hospitality assets across multiple markets. With a strong reputation for operational excellence and guest experience, the organisation is embarking on its next phase of growth through both organic expansion and strategic investments.
As part of its continued evolution, the company is seeking an accomplished Group Finance Director to provide strategic financial leadership, strengthen financial governance, and partner the executive leadership team in driving sustainable business growth and value creation.
The Role
The Group Finance Director will lead the Group Finance function across multiple geographies. This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for ensuring robust financial management while serving as a strategic business partner to support commercial decision-making, operational performance, and expansion initiatives.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in shaping the Group's financial strategy, enhancing reporting capabilities, improving business performance, and evaluating investment opportunities including acquisitions and new market expansion.
Key Responsibilities
Group Financial Leadership
- Lead the Group Finance function, providing strategic direction across financial reporting, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, treasury, tax, and financial controls.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and insightful financial and management reporting to the Board and executive leadership.
- Drive continuous improvements in financial governance, internal controls, policies, and reporting processes.
- Oversee annual budgeting, long-range planning, forecasting, and cash flow management across the Group.
Business Partnering & Value Creation
- Partner closely with business leaders to improve financial performance and drive operational excellence across the hospitality portfolio.
- Provide commercial and financial insights to support pricing strategies, profitability improvement, capital allocation, and investment decisions.
- Develop meaningful financial analytics and performance dashboards that enable informed strategic decision-making.
- Drive initiatives that enhance shareholder value through improved business performance and disciplined financial management.
Growth & Strategic Expansion
- Support the Group's expansion strategy by evaluating new business opportunities, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic partnerships.
- Lead financial due diligence, valuation analysis, investment modelling, and post-acquisition integration initiatives.
- Partner with the executive team in assessing organic growth opportunities across existing operations and new markets.
- Develop business cases and financial models to support strategic investment decisions.
Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing regional finance organisation.
- Build strong relationships with business leaders, investors, financial institutions, auditors, tax advisors, and external stakeholders.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and commercial partnership within the finance team.
Requirements
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline, with a recognised professional accounting qualification (CA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent).
- Extensive finance leadership experience gained within the hospitality sector, including hotels, hospitality management, or related asset-intensive businesses.
- Demonstrated experience leading finance at a Group or regional level across multiple international markets.
- Strong expertise in financial reporting, management reporting, planning, budgeting, treasury, and corporate finance.
- Proven ability to partner senior business leaders in driving business performance and strategic decision-making.
- Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, investment evaluation, and business expansion initiatives would be highly advantageous.
- Commercially astute with strong analytical, financial modelling, and business partnering capabilities.
- Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced, multi-country environment.
Why Apply
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a respected international hospitality group at an exciting stage of its growth journey. The role offers broad strategic exposure, the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide decision-making, and the chance to play a pivotal role in shaping the organisation's future through business transformation and expansion across global markets.
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