Strategic Finance Manager
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The Strategic Finance Manager will build financial systems, controls, and insights for a rapidly growing global business.
The role works with founders and leadership to evaluate performance and improve financial decision-making.
Responsibilities span accounting, financial analysis, management reporting, payment reconciliation, budgeting, and business performance.
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About The Flex
The Flex operates and manages flexible accommodation properties across multiple cities and countries.
The business combines hospitality, technology, and operational excellence to make renting a home as effortless as booking a hotel.
Role Overview
The Strategic Finance Manager will build financial systems, controls, and insights for a rapidly growing global business.
The role works with founders and leadership to evaluate performance and improve financial decision-making.
Responsibilities span accounting, financial analysis, management reporting, payment reconciliation, budgeting, and business performance.
Financial Ownership
- Lead financial controls and reporting and ensure management information is accurate, complete, validated, and evidence-supported.
- Automate repetitive finance processes with engineering teams.
- Reconcile booking-platform, distribution-partner, bank, and incoming transactions and resolve discrepancies.
- Monitor accounts payable and receivable and review supplier invoices and company expenses.
- Oversee statutory filings and corporate compliance across several jurisdictions.
- Coordinate with external accountants, tax advisers, auditors, and banking partners.
- Develop dashboards and evaluate performance across properties, cities, countries, and business units.
- Create budgets, forecasts, financial models, and cash-flow plans.
- Identify risks, revenue leakage, cost-reduction opportunities, and margin improvements.
- Support financial due diligence for acquisitions, investments, and expansion.
What We Are Looking For
- Strong analytical ability, attention to detail, and commitment to financial accuracy are required.
- Strong understanding of accounting concepts and financial principles is required.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets is required.
- Experience with financial reconciliation, controls, and problem-solving is required.
- Commercial mindset and ability to interpret financial results for the wider business are required.
- Ownership, accountability, independent problem-solving, and adaptability are required.
- Excellent communication skills and confidence working with senior management are required.
- Interest in technology, automation, and AI is required.
- Relevant experience in accounting, audit, investment banking, private equity, FP&A, consulting, hospitality, real estate, or a high-growth startup is highly valuable.
- A relevant finance, business, mathematics, or analytical degree is preferred.
Career Scope
- The role offers a potential progression path toward Head of Finance or a CFO-track position as the company grows.
First 6–12 Months
- Develop a detailed understanding of financial performance across major business areas.
- Establish dependable monthly management reporting.
- Ensure booking-platform and commercial-partner payments are fully reconciled.
- Improve visibility into cash flow, profitability, and unit economics.
- Automate finance processes and identify cost and margin opportunities.
- Become a trusted financial partner to founders and management.
Why Join The Flex
- Work with founders and senior leaders in an international real estate, hospitality, and technology business.
- Gain hands-on exposure to finance across multiple countries and influence strategic commercial decisions.
- Help build the finance function and apply technology and AI to modernize finance operations.
- Receive a competitive salary with performance-based incentives and long-term career progression.
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