Financial Analyst

Financial Analyst

The Financial Analyst will play a crucial role in supporting financial decision-making processes and generally supporting the home office finance team. This role will serve as an internal consultant to various departments, supporting the operations of Auberge Resorts Collection through ongoing analysis and reporting. Day-to-day responsibilities include evaluating, analyzing, and interpreting data to improve processes, cost models, forecasts, and revenue opportunities. This individual will lead and support home office and property leaders with comprehensive reporting and guidance to improve overall results and growth, including supporting new property openings and transitions.

Core Responsibilities

• Financial Planning & Analysis: Assist in the planning and preparation of annual operating budgets, monthly forecasts, and strategic long-range plans for both the corporate entity and individual hotel and residential properties.
• Financial Performance: Analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting and prepare concise and actionable executive summaries. Compare actual results against budgets and forecasts, providing detailed variance analysis and commentary to senior management.
• Performance Metrics: Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) unique to the hospitality industry, including Occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, GOP margins, and departmental profitability.
• Capital Expenditure (CapEx) Analysis: Support the analysis of proposed capital expenditures with ROI, IRR, and NPV analysis.
• Strategic Modeling: Build and maintain dynamic financial models to support long-term financial planning, new management contracts, and portfolio expansion initiatives.
• Balanced Scorecard: Analyze market penetration ("STR") reports, guest satisfaction, and employee engagement results with financial performance to create a balanced scorecard approach to evaluating performance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with property Home Office Leaders, General Managers, and property Directors of Finance to identify cost-saving initiatives and revenue-enhancing strategies. Conduct in-depth analysis of financial statements, market trends, and economic data to assess, benchmark, and identify potential areas for improvement
• Communication: Effectively communicate complex financial information to non-financial team members and stakeholders, promoting financial literacy across the organization.
• Prepare proposals, reports, and presentations for review by senior executives.
• Supporting opening and transitioning hotels and residences into the portfolio with modeling, benchmarking, and business evaluation, along with managing pre-opening budgets.
• Perform other relevant ad hoc assignments and duties as assigned.

Travel Requirements

• Ability to travel to hotels and resorts, as required.
• Occasional travel to industry conferences.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Real Estate, Hotel Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in accounting, finance, or financial planning and analysis, ideally with exposure to the hotel or real estate industry.
• Demonstrated proficiency in financial analysis, including expertise in developing spreadsheets, benchmarking, and forward-looking forecasts.
• Advanced analytical, problem-solving skills, and application of analytical tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Python, and AI applications.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, verbal and written.
• Well-developed time management/multitasking, and organizational skills.
• Ability to complete tasks and projects on time and without close supervision.
• Must possess good integrity and business judgment, team orientation, goal orientation, and high personal productivity skills.
• Ability to build relationships with internal and external contacts.
• Familiarity with the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry and industry performance metrics.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Team player with a positive attitude and a strong work ethic.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Work with a sense of urgency in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent organization skills with close attention to detail across multiple projects.
• Ability to work well under pressure and effectively balance multiple, concurrent demands and appropriately prioritize responsibilities, then communicate effectively to manage expectations.
• Ability to embrace a team-player role with other departments, demonstrate initiative, and ownership of projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to represent Auberge both internally and externally.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain complex analytical topics to a wide audience who may or may not be familiar with analytics or the subject matter.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office software, with advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Experience using Enterprise Resource Planning ("ERP") and financial reporting software.

This role may be based in Bethesda, MD

This role offers a base salary range of $85,000 to $120,000 plus a comprehensive medical, dental, vision and voluntary benefits, 401k employer match, employer paid life insurance, employee assistance program and a team member hotel stay program.