Job Details
Job Responsibilities
- Drive insightful, data-driven analyses to yield key insights and make recommendations
- Partner with business unit leadership to establish reasonable financial targets and ensure accountability towards achievement of those financial targets
- Deliver timely, accurate and effective analyses and reporting of financial and operational performance metrics to management for decision making purposes
- Prepare monthly reporting packages for presentation to senior leadership to drive continual improvement in the monthly close process and budget and forecasting processes
- Actively participate in senior leadership meetings, preparing and presenting relevant documents, reports and plans in a timely manner
- Assist senior leadership in financial models and analysis to support strategic partnerships and initiatives
- Develop and implement plans/projects to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness within areas of oversight
- Establish and monitor performance metrics to ensure that transactions are processed accurately and efficiently, and reporting meets stakeholder needs
- Work on a variety of company wide initiatives on the company’s current and future profitability
- Responsible for day-to-day management, strategic leadership and routine problem solving
- Evaluate capital expenditures in order to support cash management
- Provide robust ROI computations for proposed projects to allow us to make informed investment decisions
- Direct management of Accounting and Finance team, including the Assistant Director of Finance
- Direct management of in-house bookkeeper and financial processes
- Understand overall company balance sheet, profit and loss reporting and operating expenses
- Present monthly financial reports that provide short- and long-range financial reporting
- Documentation, contribution and maintenance of the Finance Department Operations Manual
- Liaison with the Operations team for pricing, accounts payable and trip operating budgets
- Support company vision
- Help develop and execute short-term and long-term plans
- Develop and articulate our brand strategy to support the vision
- Hiring and development of staff and succession planning
- Communicate goals, objectives, accountabilities, priorities, and authority parameters to assigned staff
- Develop leaders through mentoring and coaching of direct reports
- Inspire, lead, mentor, measure and appraise the finance team to ensure stellar capabilities at all levels as well as driving a culture of financial accuracy and accountability
- High integrity, including maintenance of confidential information
- Design and implement business growth strategies and operational efficiencies
- Must be able to exercise good judgment and positively influence others in a team environment, including handling confrontations with poise and efficiency
- Reinforce and champion our distinct corporate culture
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
- 6+ years of relevant experience in Accounting or Financial Analysis
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong project management skills and an ability to function independently and effectively in a self-directed environment
- Strong financial background, with full understanding and experience with financial models and analyses
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, a strong work ethic and demonstrated teamwork skills.
- Ambitious, intellectually curious, self-starter
- Strong Excel skills required
- Experience with QuickBooks Online
- Capable of performing detailed financial analyses including financial modeling, profitability analysis, monitoring business issues and impact to bottom line