Finance Director | Luxury Hospitality & Resort Operations

CareerSteps Consulting; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CareerSteps Consulting is seeking a Finance Director for a luxury resort in Dublin. You will partner with the General Manager and Board to shape financial strategy and drive long-term asset stewardship across hospitality operations.

The role requires a fully qualified accountant with extensive commercial experience in hotels, a collaborative leadership style, and the ability to translate financial data into strategic decisions that support growth and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant with strong, extensive commercial experience in hotels, hospitality or resort operations.
• Proven ability to partner with the General Manager, Board and Senior Leadership to shape strategy.
• Track record of delivering financial performance, governance and asset stewardship.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the General Manager, Board and Senior Leadership Team to shape long-term business strategy.
• Provide commercial insight that supports key business decisions.
• Influence investment priorities, expansion and growth.
• Act as trusted advisor to GM and Board on financial, commercial and strategic matters.
• Own budgeting, forecasting and financial planning across the resort and company.
• Develop KPIs and dashboards to monitor operational performance.
• Analyse profitability across products, markets and units.
• Lead finance and purchasing teams and strengthen systems.

Skills

Financial leadership

Commercial acumen

Strategic planning

Team leadership

Education

Fully qualified accountant

Job description

Finance Director | Luxury Hospitality & Resort Operations

• (Dublin | Full- Time On-Site)
• REF: EO277
• Commutable from Dublin, Meath, Kildare, Louth

We are seeking a commercially astute, hands-on Finance Director to work closely with the General Manager and Board and departments of a luxury resort.

We are looking for a Finance Director who leads by example: commercially sharp, decisive, and you will combine technical authority with the emotional intelligence to bring colleagues with you, not just instruct them.

A credible leader who earns trust at every level, from the Board to the finance team.

May also suit someone at Assistant Financial Director level or equivalent, ready and looking to make a step up.

PERSON & OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a fully qualified accountant with strong, extensive commercial experience in hotels, hospitality, or resort operations.

A broad leadership opportunity for someone who wants to understand the entire business, build trusted relationships across its departments and take ownership of financial performance and long-term asset stewardship.

Our client is seeking a pragmatic, solutions focussed finance leader who enjoys collaborating with various teams in the resort.

Requirements/Scope:

Partner with the General Manager, Board of Directors and Senior Leadership Team to shape long-term business strategy.

• Provide commercial insight that supports key business decisions
• Influence investment priorities, business expansion, and organisational growth.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the General Manager, Board of Directors on financial, commercial, and strategic matters.

Financial Strategy & Commercial Leadership

• Develop and execute financial strategy.
• Drive profitable growth, revenue growth while maintaining financial discipline.
• Lead long-term financial planning and business forecasting.
• Provide meaningful insight that helps the business make better decisions.
• Ensure production of accurate, timely, relevant, and reliable financial information to translate financial data into actionable insights for the board & management teams
• Ensure accurate, timely and compliant financial reporting.
• Lead statutory reporting, audits and regulatory compliance.
• Strengthen governance, financial controls of fixed assets, stock, debtors & creditors and identify risk exposure, risk management frameworks.
• Ensure the finance function supports future international growth.

Business Performance & Planning

• Own budgeting, forecasting and financial planning across the resort and company.
• Develop KPIs and reporting dashboards that support operational performance.
• Analyse profitability across products, markets and business units.
• Partner with department leaders to improve commercial performance.

Key responsibilities include:

Overall responsibility and control for all financial aspects of the company strategy and to analyse results and implement recommendations to ensure the best outcome.

Embedding a culture of strong cost and budgetary control and visibility throughout the business.

Working with the General Manager/Senior Management Team to grow the business with relevant strategies.

• Financial oversight, internal controls, budgeting, cashflow, forecasting and Board reporting.
• Improving margins, payroll productivity, purchasing and profitability across food and beverage, weddings, events, golf and wider resort operations.
• Financial oversight of assets, estate and land interests, protecting value and planning for future requirements.
• Evaluating capital investment, challenging project assumptions, monitoring expenditure and tracking returns.
• Looking around corners: identifying emerging risks, future costs and opportunities early, and acting before issues escalated.
• Leading the Finance and Purchasing teams, strengthening systems and getting stuck in wherever the business needs support. Lead performance and development: Set clear goals, hold team members accountable, and provide constructive coaching, fair appraisals and ongoing technical training to support operational excellence and succession planning.
• Experience of asset management, capital projects and estate or land interests will be valuable.

Personal qualities matter:

Important to the role and the company – the individual will be collaborative, have low ego, high emotional intelligence, and a common-sense approach. Someone honest and transparent, discreet, trustworthy, and loyal to the business and its people. A leader who handles confidential matters carefully, challenges constructively and takes responsibility. Builds trusted relationships across the business and influences without relying on hierarchy. Creates an environment where people feel able to speak up, question assumptions and bring ideas.

Excellent Package on offer to reflect the seniority of the opportunity to the successful candidate.