Finance Business Partner

Alexander Lloyd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Alexander Lloyd is seeking an experienced Finance Business Partner for a multi-site hospitality group in London. This role sits within the regional finance team, partnering with site leaders to drive planning, forecasting, and reporting.

You will analyse property performance, develop models for investment decisions and costs, and advise stakeholders to optimise value across the UK and Europe. Office-based in London, with strong collaboration across finance and operations.

Qualifications

• Hotel experience in a multi-site setting.
• Strong understanding of hospitality revenue streams and KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Review property-level P&Ls and provide variance analysis with action plans.
• Own annual business planning and monthly forecasting for property operations.
• Build decision models for investments, capex and cost optimisation.
• Act as trusted advisor to finance, operations and commercial stakeholders.

Skills

Excel modelling

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Education

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) or equivalent

Tools

NetSuite

MEWS

Opera

Job description

Finance Business Partner – Multi-Site Hospitality

Location: London 5 days office-based

The Opportunity

We are recruiting an experienced Finance Business Partner to join a leading European hospitality group with an extensive portfolio of properties across the UK and Europe.

JOB OVERVIEW

The Finance Business Partner is an exciting and critical role within a fast-paced, growing and dynamic environment sitting within the Regional finance team. The Regional finance team is structured horizontally into two geographical regions (UK & Europe) with responsibility for a number of sites. In addition, each team member also has vertical ownership over key performance categories. The role reports to a regional Head of Finance working closely with the central Finance team (c.40 employees) and business owners. A key element of the role is supporting financial planning, forecasting, reporting & analysis. The jobholder will act as a trusted advisor for the business enabling collaboration with internal stakeholders to achieve organisational goals. They will provide expertise through enabling data driven decision modelling to achieve favourable outcomes for the business.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Finance, you will join the Regional Finance team and take ownership of key performance areas across a number of sites. You will:

• Review property-level P&Ls to monthly close deadlines, providing variance analysis, commentary and turnaround action plans
• Own the annual business planning and monthly forecasting process for property operations, giving operations forward-looking insight on risks and opportunities
• Analyse financial and operational performance trends, benchmarking against internal and external data to identify where value can be added
• Build decision models for key property and operational decisions, including investment, capital spend and cost optimisation
• Act as a trusted advisor to finance, operations and commercial stakeholders, challenging assumptions with a curious, analytical mindset
• Support tenders, contract negotiations and supplier optimisation
• Drive improvements to reporting, forecasting and financial processes to give better visibility of performance

About You

• Hotel experience, ideally within a multi-site hotel company
• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent) preferred
• Strong understanding of hospitality revenue streams and KPIs (RevPAR, ADR, occupancy)
• Excellent Excel and modelling skills, with systems experience such as NetSuite, MEWS or Opera
• Commercial, curious and hands-on, able to challenge constructively and juggle priorities in a deadline-driven environment

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE FOR THIS ROLE

Experience:

• Hotel experience – previous work within multi-site hotel companies or equivalent
• Good understanding of operational finance and business partnering having dealt with different cross-cultural stakeholders and management team

Skills:

• Strong understanding of the hospitality and hotel industry, including revenue streams (rooms, F&B, events), cost structures, and KPIs (e.g. RevPAR, ADR, occupancy).
• Good system knowledge and excellent modelling skills (Excel, Business Modelling tools, NetSuite, MEWs, Opera or equivalent systems)