Strategic Finance Manager
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Role Overview
The Flex operates and manages flexible accommodation properties across multiple cities and countries.
The Strategic Finance Manager will build financial systems, controls, and insights for a rapidly growing global business.
The role works directly with founders and leadership and spans accounting, analysis, reporting, reconciliations, budgeting, and business performance.
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Role Overview
The Flex operates and manages flexible accommodation properties across multiple cities and countries.
The Strategic Finance Manager will build financial systems, controls, and insights for a rapidly growing global business.
The role works directly with founders and leadership and spans accounting, analysis, reporting, reconciliations, budgeting, and business performance.
What You Will Own
- Lead day-to-day financial controls and reporting and ensure management information is accurate, complete, validated, and evidence-based.
- Automate repetitive and manual finance processes in collaboration with engineering teams.
- Reconcile payments from booking platforms, commercial partners, and direct reservations.
- Reconcile bank accounts and incoming transactions and resolve discrepancies.
- Manage accounts payable and receivable and review supplier invoices and expenses.
- Oversee statutory filings and corporate compliance across several jurisdictions.
- Coordinate with accountants, tax advisers, auditors, and banking partners.
- Prepare landlord and property-owner financial statements when required.
- Develop dashboards and reporting tools for real-time company performance visibility.
- Evaluate performance across properties, cities, countries, and business units.
- Maintain budgets, forecasts, financial models, and cash-flow planning.
- Identify financial risks, revenue leakage, cost reduction, and margin improvement opportunities.
What We Are Looking For
- Strong analytical ability, confidence with numbers, and exceptional attention to detail.
- Strong understanding of accounting concepts and financial principles.
- Ability to work with significant volumes of financial and operational data.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets.
- Strong financial reconciliation, controls, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Commercial mindset and ability to interpret financial results and implications.
- Ownership, responsibility, accountability, and ability to work independently.
- Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and confidence with senior management.
- Interest in technology, automation, and AI for improving finance processes.
- Relevant experience in accounting, audit, investment banking, private equity, FP&A, consulting, hospitality, real estate, or high-growth startups is highly valuable.
- A degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Mathematics, or another analytical discipline is preferred.
Expected Results in 6–12 Months
- Develop a detailed understanding of financial performance across major areas of The Flex.
- Establish dependable monthly management reporting.
- Fully reconcile booking-platform and commercial-partner payments.
- Improve visibility into cash flow, profitability, and unit economics.
- Identify opportunities to lower costs and improve margins.
- Automate finance processes previously completed manually.
- Become a trusted financial partner to founders and management.
- Assume responsibility for increasingly important areas of the finance function.
Why Join The Flex
- Work in an international business at the intersection of real estate, hospitality, and technology.
- Work directly with founders and senior leaders and influence profitability and strategic decisions.
- Gain hands-on exposure to financial operations across multiple countries.
- Help build the finance function and apply technology and AI to modernize it.
- Receive a competitive salary with performance-based incentives and long-term career progression.
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