Finance Manager
The Usual Hotels
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Job summary
The Usual Hotels in Amsterdam is seeking a hands-on Finance Manager to enhance the company’s finance function. You'll partner with leadership to ensure accurate reporting and strategic insights.
This multi-faceted role involves financial planning, governance, and team leadership, requiring a chartered accountant with over 10 years in the hospitality sector. A competitive salary, pension contributions, and various perks including travel allowances are part of this opportunity.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of industry experience in financial and management accounting, preferably hospitality.
- Proficiency in English required; Dutch preferred.
- Strong attention to detail and hands-on mentality.
Responsibilities
- Lead a finance team of 2 while ensuring deliverables are met.
- Manage month-end closing processes and financial reporting.
- Ensure compliance with taxation and statutory regulations.
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Job description
Welcome to The Usual, an innovative, Pan‑European hotel group that is committed to transforming the hospitality industry into positive experiences for our guests and local communities. We are looking for a hands‑on Finance Manager to join our hotel management company who will strengthen the finance function of both the hotel management company and the hotel portfolio it manages, acting as a strategic financial partner to the leadership team and shareholders. In this role you will bring structure to reporting, provide strategic insights and help guide the business through its next phase of expansion.
This role combines conventional accounting and finance activities with strategic financial insight and analysis for both the hotel management company and its hotel portfolio, making it a true business‑partnering position. As Senior Financial Controller you will ensure accurate reporting, maintain governance and compliance, and provide our leadership team and shareholders with clear financial insights to support strategic decision‑making.
- Lead a finance team of 2 to ensure deliverables are met within deadlines and to a high standard.
- Support and mentor team members to promote professional development.
- Manage month‑end closing processes including accruals and supporting reconciliations to ensure a high level of accuracy and compliance.
- Manage periodic reporting processes to ensure internal and external stakeholders receive accurate and meaningful reporting within deadlines, including budget vs actual analysis, cashflow projections and consolidated financial statements in line with IFRS.
- Manage the annual audit process to ensure completion within agreed deadlines.
- Support the preparation of annual budgets, including presentations to stakeholders to achieve sign‑off within agreed timeframes.
- Manage payment processes, including invoice approvals, coordinating payment runs, releasing payments in bank accounts and supporting payroll review and approval.
- Provide ad‑hoc financial analysis for internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure all group entities remain compliant with local statutory reporting and filing regulations.
- Oversee tax compliance, ensuring filings and payments are made within deadlines across all entities.
- Ensure debt and equity structures are correctly implemented and maintained.
- Hold key banking relationships, ensure robust internal controls are implemented and maintained, and oversee user access rights.
- Ensure compliance with external facility agreements and support refinancing activities, including reviewing interest and fee calculations.
- Manage liquidity, coordinating drawdowns and repayments on external debt facilities, shareholder capital calls and distributions, and debtor and creditor management.
- Provide support on hotel acquisitions and disposals, including setting up accounting and finance systems and processes for new hotel openings and acquisitions, and supporting transition activities for hotel disposals.
- Assist the development and operations teams with finance‑related aspects of hotel refurbishments and pre‑opening activities.
- Review and improve financial processes and controls to ensure efficiencies and a high level of governance is maintained.
- A proven background (10+ years of industry experience) in financial and management accounting, including experience in the hospitality industry.
- Chartered accountancy qualification is required.
- Knowledge of both local European GAAP and IFRS is required.
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications, in particular Excel. Experience with Exact and Lucanet accounting software or similar is preferable.
- Experience leading finance teams.
- A confident personality with strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
- A hands‑on mentality and an analytical mindset with strong attention to detail.
- Fluency in English is required and Dutch is preferred.
- You are legally allowed to work in the Netherlands.
- Yearly gross salary up to €120,000 including holiday allowance and excluding discretionary bonus.
- 25 holidays to relax and unwind throughout the year.
- Pension contribution to take care of your old days.
- Travel allowance for commuting (max 100 km per day).
- Personal Alleo monthly budget (€40 to be used for fun‑stuff: culture, education, well‑being and more).
- Get‑togethers with colleagues, including food and beverages.
- Discount for you and family while enjoying time off in our hotels.
- Extra time off to volunteer with our charities.
Do you have any questions about this position? You can reach out to our People & Culture team at people@theusual.com.
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