Description

Job Purpose:

The Corporate Director of Finance & Accounting plays a dual-impact role within the organization, serving as a strategic finance partner to the Home Office/Corporate leadership team while maintaining direct accounting oversight for a defined group of properties. This position bridges high-level financial planning, analysis, and governance with hands-on operational accounting, ensuring both corporate and property-level financial integrity, consistency, and insight.

This leader balances strategic financial oversight with hands-on execution, operating comfortably at the enterprise level while maintaining direct involvement in close processes, journal entry review, and real-time support of property teams.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Corporate Finance & Strategic Leadership
• Partner with executive leadership to support enterprise-wide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range modeling.
• Prepare and analyze consolidated financial results, identifying trends, risks, and opportunities across the portfolio.
• Develop financial models and business cases to support growth initiatives, acquisitions, renovations, capital investments, and operational decisions.
• Translate financial data into clear, actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders.
• Support lender, investor, and ownership reporting, including ad hoc analysis and presentation materials as needed.

Property Accounting Oversight
• Maintain direct accounting responsibility for a designated portfolio of properties, serving as the primary finance partner to on-property leadership.
• Oversee month-end and year-end close processes for assigned properties, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with company standards.
• Review and approve journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, and financial statements.
• Ensure proper revenue recognition, expense classification, and adherence to internal controls.
• Support property leaders with budgeting, forecasting, labor analysis, and operational financial questions.

Financial Operations & Controls
• Ensure consistent accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls across corporate and property operations.
• Partner with Accounts Payable, Payroll, and shared services teams to ensure accurate and efficient financial workflows.
• Support annual audits, tax filings, and regulatory requirements, acting as a key liaison with external auditors and advisors.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve systems utilization, and enhance financial reporting accuracy.

Team Leadership & Collaboration
• Mentor and support property-level accounting managers and finance team members, providing guidance, structure, and development.
• Serve as a collaborative bridge between corporate finance and on-property operations, fostering trust, accountability, and shared understanding.
• Contribute to building scalable finance and accounting infrastructure as the organization grows.

Other Responsibilities:
• Review monthly balance sheet reconciliations prepared by the accounting staff. Balance sheets must have appropriate supporting documentation and narratives to explain the account changes.
• Prepare monthly cash flow statements, and work with Home Office staff on rolling calendar cash forecasts.
• Respond to governmental inquiries upon receipt.
• Attendance at meetings/training as required by management.
• Perform other duties as requested by management.

Education & Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required; CPA or MBA strongly preferred.
• 8-12+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, including both corporate and operational/property-level responsibilities.
• Hospitality, real estate, or multi-unit operating experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic financial leadership with detailed, hands-on accounting work.
• Strong understanding of GAAP, financial controls, and audit processes.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial systems; experience with multi-entity environments required.
• Exceptional analytical, organizational, and communication skills.

Professional Characteristics:
• Work with and understand financial information, data, and complex arithmetic functions.
• Ability to clearly convey information and ideas.
• Maintain composure and objectivity under pressure.
• Effectively handle problems in the workplace, including anticipating, preventing, identifying, and solving problems as necessary.
• Work with and understand financial information, data, and complex arithmetic functions.
• Willing to listen, understand, clarify and resolve the concerns or issues raised by co-workers, vendors and hotel staff associates and customers.
• Ability to prioritize job functions to meet established deadlines.

Physical Requirements:
• Flexible and long hours sometimes required.
• Sedentary work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

Work Authorization: Must be eligible to work in the United States.

I have read and understand the job description as stated above and accept that any of the tasks may be modified or changed. I accept responsibility for knowing the modifications and/or changes in the job description. I can perform the essential functions of this job as listed above, with or without reasonable accommodation.