Director, Finance – Yacht Operations
Four Seasons
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Job summary
Four Seasons Miami seeks a seasoned Director of Finance, Yacht Operations, to lead all financial aspects of the yacht division. You will guide budgeting, forecasting, treasury, and governance while partnering with ownership and corporate teams to drive profitability and strategic investments.
The role emphasizes strategic leadership, robust analytics, and collaboration across executive stakeholders to ensure sustainable growth and compliant financial practices within a luxury hospitality context.
Qualifications
- Significant finance leadership experience in luxury hospitality, travel, maritime, cruise, or service-based organizations.
- Strong experience in financial planning, forecasting, performance management, treasury, financial reporting, and analytics.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior finance business partner to Yacht Operations leadership, GMs, Ownership, MHCH and Corporate stakeholders.
- Lead the annual budget process, rolling forecasts, and long-range planning across the Yacht business.
- Oversee treasury, cash flow management, liquidity planning, and reserve governance.
- Ensure GAAP compliance, internal controls, and timely month-end/year-end close.
- Provide financial modeling and scenario analysis to support growth initiatives and strategic decisions.
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Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.
Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 130 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.
The Director of Finance, Yacht Operations serves as the senior finance leader for Four Seasons Yacht Operations and is accountable for driving business performance, financial governance, reporting, planning, forecasting, analytics, and compliance across the Yacht business.
Working in partnership with Yacht Operations leadership, Yacht General Managers, Ownership, Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings Ltd. (MHCH), and Corporate stakeholders, this role provides financial leadership that supports operational excellence, long-term value creation, and the achievement of strategic business objectives.
The Director leads performance management, financial planning and analysis, forecasting, financial governance, treasury management, debt and covenant reporting, reserve oversight, Management Agreement compliance, and business analytics across the Yacht business. This role serves as a key advisor on future fleet planning, yacht development initiatives, business expansion opportunities, margin enhancement strategies, and enterprise decision-making while ensuring alignment between Four Seasons and Ownership financial processes.
Through strategic leadership and hands‑on execution, the Director helps optimize financial performance, strengthen governance, manage risk, and support the sustainable growth of the Yacht business.
- Serve as the senior finance business partner to Yacht Operations leadership, Yacht General Managers, Ownership, MHCH, and Corporate stakeholders.
- Participate as a member of the Yacht Leadership Team, contributing to strategic planning, operational reviews, and key business decisions.
- Develop and execute financial strategies that support business objectives and long-term value creation.
- Build trusted relationships with Ownership representatives, board members, lenders, and associated entities.
- Present financial performance, forecasts, budgets, risks, and recommendations to leadership, Ownership, and Corporate stakeholders.
- Lead performance management and business analytics activities across the Yacht business, establishing key financial and operational performance metrics and driving accountability against approved plans and forecasts.
- Serve as the executive owner of forecast accuracy across the Yacht business, ensuring accountability, consistency, and alignment between operational and financial planning assumptions.
- Partner with operational leaders to identify opportunities and develop recommendations that improve revenue, labor productivity, expense management, cash flow, profitability, margin expansion, and long-term growth.
- Drive data-based decision making through meaningful analysis, benchmarking, forecasting, and business insights.
- Lead the annual budget process, rolling forecasts, and long-range financial planning activities.
- Own the end-to-end forecasting process, ensuring alignment between Four Seasons and MHCH methodologies, reporting requirements, and planning timetables.
- Review monthly financial results and ensure reporting accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with corporate and ownership requirements.
- Ensure delivery of all required financial, covenant, and financing-related reporting, including P&L statements, cash flow reporting, forecasts, debt reporting, and Facility Agreement compliance reporting.
- Serve as the primary financial steward of Management Agreement compliance and governance, ensuring all reporting obligations, fee calculations, reserve funding requirements, cost recovery provisions, contractual commitments, and financial approval requirements are administered and fulfilled in accordance with agreement terms.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of Four Seasons Accounting & Finance policies, standards, management agreements, and applicable ownership governance requirements.
- Maintain a strong internal control environment and ensure compliance with GAAP, company policies, ownership requirements, and regulatory obligations.
- Provide oversight and governance of month-end and year-end close activities, driving alignment, standardization, and continuous improvement between Four Seasons and MHCH reporting processes to enhance accuracy, transparency, consistency, and timeliness.
- Ensure accurate tracking, reconciliation, reporting, and recovery of all amounts payable to Four Seasons, including management fees, program fees, reimbursable expenses, shared services charges, and other contractual obligations.
- Lead internal and external audits and ensure timely resolution of audit findings.
- Oversee financial governance related to guest deposits, advance deposits, and related payment administration processes, ensuring controls, accessibility, and compliance with business and ownership requirements.
- Oversee treasury operations, cash flow management, liquidity planning, banking relationships, funding strategies, and working capital performance.
- Monitor payment practices and liquidity positions to ensure timely settlement of obligations and proactively identify risks to vendor relationships, operational continuity, Four Seasons reputation, and service delivery standards.
- Oversee governance, funding, reporting, adequacy assessments, and utilization strategies associated with FF&E Reserves, Dry Dock Reserves, Cash Reserves, and other ownership-mandated reserve accounts.
- Oversee capital expenditure approvals, reporting, and compliance with reserve funding requirements.
- Support the implementation, budgeting, funding, and administration of mandatory Four Seasons programs and initiatives.
- Partner with Corporate stakeholders to ensure program-related funding obligations are appropriately forecasted, recorded, communicated, and recovered in accordance with applicable agreements.
- Partner with MHCH and Corporate stakeholders on fleet planning initiatives, including new vessel development, Yacht expansion projects, and long-range business planning activities.
- Support strategic investment decisions through financial evaluation, risk assessment, and operational readiness planning.
- Provide financial modeling, scenario planning, investment analysis, and business case development to support future growth initiatives.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Hospitality Management, or a related discipline.
- Professional accounting designation (CPA, CA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) preferred.
- Significant finance leadership experience within luxury hospitality, travel, maritime, cruise, or service-based organizations.
- Strong experience in financial planning and analysis, forecasting, performance management, treasury, financial reporting, and business analytics.
- Experience managing ownership relationships, management agreements, financing arrangements, covenant reporting, and reserve governance.
- Proven ability to leverage financial and operational data to improve business performance and support strategic decision-making.
- Experience supporting growth initiatives, development projects, vessel openings, integrations, or other complex multi-stakeholder initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of GAAP, internal controls, compliance standards, and hospitality finance practices.
- Advanced proficiency with financial systems, business intelligence tools, and Microsoft Office applications.
- Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- A strategic and analytical leader with strong business acumen and a results-oriented mindset.
- An inspiring and collaborative leader who fosters trust, accountability, and transparency.
- A champion of continuous improvement who embraces innovation and drives operational excellence.
- Skilled at building relationships and influencing stakeholders across functions and levels of the organization.
- An effective communicator who clearly articulates priorities, expectations, and business objectives.
- Demonstrates the highest levels of integrity, professionalism, and ethical decision-making.
- Adaptable and resilient, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
- A role model for Four Seasons values and sound business practices.
This role will be a Hybrid working model, which will require 3 days per week in the Miami Four Seasons Corporate Office (3 days per week) located at 1441 Brickell Avenue, Suite 1007, Miami, Florida.
Four Seasons is an Equal Opportunity, affirmative action employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. To access the 'EEOC is The Law' Information poster please visit this website - https://www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal
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