Manager, Finance

Job title:

Manager, Finance

Company

Four Seasons Hotels

Job description

About Four Seasons:Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.About the location: Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.Manager, FinanceThis position is responsible for working directly with Senior leaders, external partners and cross functional teams on the Enterprise Performance Transformation project and other IT financial projects. This role coordinates the build, testing, delivery and adoption of new corporate systems. The position will play a key role in identifying opportunities to streamline and simplify processes, provide input on the design of new systems, and influence change management. In addition, the role will also be responsible for:

• Preparing management reporting packages/board requests as necessary.
• Process improvements and automation to drive forecasting speed and accuracy.
• Storytelling with data and numbers.
• Financial analysis on corporate and hotel P&Ls.

What You’ll Be Doing:Budgeting and Forecasting Process

• Manage end to end annual budgeting and rolling forecast process for IT related projects.
• Coordinate budget schedules and facilitate regular reviews with IT stakeholders.
• Collaborate with business to develop effective reporting that improves clarity and ownership of spend.
• Manage the forecasting process and coordinate submissions with P&L stakeholders.

Financial Reporting

• Own the monthly management reporting cycle and annual budgeting to drive informed decision-making with business leads and Senior Executives.
• Coordinate and ensure the delivery of Monthly P&L by sub department.
• Conduct regular meetings with cross functional teams to explain results and act as strategic advisor to the business.
• Engage with P&L stakeholders to ensure invoice processing is timely.

Financial Analysis

• Analyze data and provide value-added information to the business.
• Collaborate with business leads to assess and analyze spending requests that support company strategic initiatives.
• Analyze spend across GL accounts and P&L departments to identify opportunities for more efficient/effective spend.
• Analyze effectiveness of P&L departmental leaders in accurately projecting spend and provide ongoing measurement.
• Manage risks / opportunities to the Plan and provide line of sight to results.

Finance Transformation

• Provide input on design and build of financial systems for planning, forecasting, and reporting.
• Participate in SIT and UAT, by testing new systems for readiness and usability by the organization.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to streamline and simplify financial and business processes.
• Analyze and prepare financial and non-financial data for system readiness, including mapping of historical data to the new data model.
• Promote adoption of new systems in collaboration with the change management team.
• Develop financial reports that align with the new data model.

Special Projects/Ad-hoc

• Prepare financial modelling and provide business case support for strategic plan spend.
• Participate in other financial analysis as required.

What You Bring:

• University Degree – Focus in / finance / business / accounting.
• CPA, MBA, or equivalent finance / accounting experience.
• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis or Finance Business Partner role.
• Experience in finance business partner role with IT or Technology departments.
• Proficient in use of accounting software – D365, OneStream, Essbase, Power BI, FOCUS, Hyperion etc.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel/ Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Ability to learn and understand additional technical knowledge and skills as required.
• Strong accounting and financial modelling skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strategic, analytical and have solid business acumen.
• Good understanding of the hotel market, particularly the luxury segment.
• Strong research and fact-finding skills.
• Excellent analytical skills a must.
• Ability to work with confidential compensation information.

Who You Are:

• Team player with an excellent attitude and a strong work ethic
• Extremely proactive with the ability to handle new developments as they arise.
• Highly creative problem solver, able to access multiple information sources to solve problems.
• Ability to work under pressure and multi-task.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Professional maturity, initiative, and resourcefulness.

This role will be a Hybrid working model, which will require 4 days per week in the Four Seasons Corporate Office located at 1165 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario #LI-HybridFour Seasons is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.

Expected salary

Location

Toronto, ON

Job date

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 07:09:11 GMT

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