Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You
Picture yourself brightening someone’s day. When you join our Hotels team, that’s exactly what you’ll do every time you come to work! As a Director of Finance, you’re not just overseeing all hotel financial operations – you’re spreading the light and warmth of hospitality by delivering memorable experiences that make the stay for every guest.
Here's what you'll do during a typical day:
- Drive financial strategy: Oversee all financial operations, ensuring alignment with the hotel’s strategic goals to optimize profitability and efficiency
- Oversee financial planning and analysis: Direct the preparation of annual plans, projections, and budgets, providing financial insights to support business decisions
- Advise hotel leadership: Serve as the primary financial advisor to hotel management, ownership, and department heads, offering data-driven recommendations to enhance financial performance
- Ensure financial compliance: Uphold adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and safeguard hotel assets through strong financial controls
- Optimize financial reporting: Oversee systems and processes to drive accuracy, efficiency, and transparency in financial reporting.
- Monitor and approve financial transactions: Oversee and authorize hotel sales, purchases, salaries, and expenses to maintain fiscal responsibility and operational efficiency
- Cultivate a high-performing team: Drive engagement and retention through performance management, professional development, and recognition programs
In addition, this role requires the following minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field; a Master’s degree in Finance, Business Administration (MBA), or a related specialization is preferred.
• Minimum of 5–7 years of progressive experience in finance roles, preferably within luxury or Upper Upscale hotel operations.
• Previous experience as a Director of Finance, Assistant Director of Finance, or equivalent financial leadership role.
• Extensive knowledge of budgeting, financial forecasting, financial analysis, internal controls, and hotel accounting operations.
• Proficiency in financial systems, Microsoft Office, and advanced Excel skills.
• Advanced English proficiency.
• Strong leadership and analytical skills, with the ability to act as a strategic business partner.
What It Takes to Make the Stay
At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:
A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality. Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership. A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now, bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.