Director of Finance

The Director of Finance is a trusted advisor to the business, attracting and retaining best-in-class finance professionals, and developing their finance team to thrive. The role communicates with impact to all stakeholders, ensures a robust control and compliance environment, and enables the EMEA finance management company value proposition that is attractive to existing and new owners. The Director partners with our business to maximize profit for shareholders and owners and innovates to deliver an industry‑leading efficient finance organization.

The Director of Finance is accountable for the hotel in respect of understanding and driving financial performance and is responsible to perform all finance activities within the policy, regulatory and contractual framework. The role will business partner with the General Manager and has accountability for developing excellent working relationships across a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including within Hotel Finance, Commercial, IT, Procurement, Human Resources, Operations, Shared Service Centers (where applicable), Owners and Asset Managers as well as Regional Operations Finance.

The Director of Finance works closely with all Business Partners to develop best‑in‑class hotel Finance teams, including participation in all relevant Finance development programs. You will be familiar with the management agreement for the Hotel and implement processes and procedures to ensure the Hotel is operated in compliance with the management agreement, reporting issues of non‑compliance to your supervising manager.

Qualifications

• Strategic thinker with the ability to formulate effective goals, objectives and priorities with a long term perspective
• Strong communication and negotiation skills (all levels of management and external customers)
• Financial and operational analytical skills (operational analysis)
• Knowledge of departmental and hotel operations
• Ability to exercise judgment in evaluating situations and in making sound decisions
• Ability to analyze and interpret financial data
• Leadership and organizational skills (team orientation, flexible, adaptable)
• Ability to analyze large volume of complex financial information from many sources and create reports, forecasts projections
• Proficiency in MS Office suite applications (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)

Additional Preferences

• University degree in Accounting or Finance / Accounting certification (eg CIMA)
• Hotel level or industry experience

Work Locations

Conrad Riyadh Laysen Valley

Schedule

Full‑time

Brand

Conrad Hotels & Resorts

Job

Finance

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