General Manager Finance for Regional Resorts

Inviting applications for a General Manager Finance – West Region Resorts for a leading hospitality group. Client is a premium hotel chain with top rated hotels and resorts across India.

Job Profile:
Leadership role for the Finance Vertical of Resorts Business for a region in India, controlling around 7-9 resorts in the region.
Responsibilities include Business Partnering with the Resort Operations team at Resorts & Region and includes heading the controlling, accounting, receivables, payables, and MIS consolidation function for the resorts in the region. Financial Performance of the resorts as budgeted would be the key deliverable in the role and would include Capex Planning and Execution, and expansion of resort and room capacities.
Role includes overall liaison building with the owners of leased properties and owners of managed contract properties with periodic reconciliations and settlements.
Works closely with the Resorts’ operations team and corporate finance team.
People Development involving the team members at resorts
Establish a strong and stable team at the resorts to carry out the controlling, accounting and MIS function at the resorts, and control the overall business and consolidate results for review
Support the Statutory and Internal Audit teams at the resorts and the region relating to the Resorts Business
Set operating plans and budgets for the resorts business, with a view to align the same with the overall company’s goals
Set up efficient R2R process, thru controlling the receivables at resorts and adherence to company credit policy for guest & corporate bookings at the resorts and ensure effective controls and minimise risks. Automation of processes and deployment of Digital process would be encouraged
Liaison with owners of Leased Resorts and Managed Resorts, and set up a cordial relationship with the finance team and provide periodic reconciliations and settlements
Project planning and execution of expansion requirements of the company, especially in the resorts vertical. Expansion could include expansion of rooms in current resorts, or greenfield projects, modification of existing rooms in our resorts. This would involve Capex Budgeting, ROI and other KPI’s.
Support the destinations & sourcing team in contracting new resort properties, with estimates, returns, ROI and other deliverables.
Work closely with the HR teams, Purchase, Tax and other cross functional members at corporate and carry out their objectives at the resorts.
Develop analytical tools to be used to assess cost saving opportunities within various spend categories taking into account product costs and service costs.
Development of staff (training, coaching, performance management and problem resolution)

Requirements:
10-12 Years of Regional Finance experience
Graduate / Post Graduate in Finance
Financial and Management Accounting
Analytical Skills – MIS, Consolidation, Reports.
Working knowledge of GST
Working on ERP based environment
Budgeting, Forecasting, Analysing using various Models & KPI’s
Audits Internal and Statutory
Conducting periodic reviews with presentations
Leadership skills: Team Management
Excellent Cross Functional Working skills
Negotiation & Communication Skills
Analytical skills
Interpersonal skills
Decision Making