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Are you ready to lead the financial operations of one of Fiji’s premier luxury resorts? We are seeking an accomplished Director of Finance to join our client’s world-class team at our client’s island resort. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the financial future of a renowned hospitality destination.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Technical
- Financial Leadership: Provide strategic leadership over the resort's financial operations, ensuring accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of all financial reporting, forecasting, and statutory obligations.
- Financial Reporting & Insights: Ensure high-quality financial reporting frameworks are in place to deliver meaningful insights that support executive and Board decision-making.
- Forecasting & Cashflow Management: Lead Group-wide forecasting, reforecasting, and cashflow management processes to support operational planning, capital allocation, and long-term sustainability.
- Balance Sheet Governance: Maintain executive oversight of balance sheet integrity, with strong emphasis on fixed asset management (including capitalization, depreciation, and work-in-progress), inventory management, and related party transactions, ensuring appropriate controls, reconciliations, and governance frameworks support reliable financial outcomes.
- Systems & Data Integrity: Retain strategic ownership of financial systems and data integrity in partnership with Group IT, ensuring systems support commercial, operational, and governance requirements.
Leadership/Team
- Executive Leadership: Provide leadership for the resort finance function, setting clear direction, expectations, and performance standards across finance managers and specialist finance teams.
- Capability and Succession: Lead the development of finance capability through mentoring, coaching, and succession planning, ensuring the function has the depth and resilience to support current and future business needs.
- Performance Culture: Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture that promotes accountability, ownership, continuous improvement, and professional excellence.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with head office finance leaders and resort management to ensure an integrated, consistent, and effective finance operation across the Group.
- Strategic Partnership: Act as a trusted financial advisor to senior leadership and HODs, providing insight, challenge, and guidance to support strategic, commercial, and operational initiatives.
Operational & Business Support:
- Business Partnership: Partner with operational and executive leadership to ensure financial controls, processes, and reporting frameworks effectively support operational excellence and commercial outcomes.
- Risk Identification and Mitigation: Proactively identify financial, operational, and system risks, ensuring appropriate controls, procedures, and mitigation strategies are designed and implemented.
- Policy and Process Governance: Oversee the development, review, and maintenance of finance policies, procedures, and standard operating practices to promote consistency, efficiency, and compliance across the Group.
- Transaction Assurance: Maintain rigorous oversight and assurance of supplier payment and payroll transactions, ensuring detailed cross-checking is undertaken to confirm accuracy, completeness, and timeliness, and that all transactions fully comply with internal controls, policies, and external regulatory requirements.
- Functional Effectiveness: Undertake other reasonable executive responsibilities to maximise the effectiveness, capability, and overall performance of the finance function.
Profit & Loss
- Executive Accountability: Provide executive accountability for the timely delivery of monthly Profit and Loss results, ensuring reporting deadlines are met and information is decision-ready for executive and Board review.
- Commercial Performance Insight: Deliver high-quality financial insights and commentary that clearly articulate commercial performance, key value drivers, material variances, emerging risks, and opportunities for optimisation.
- Strategic Forecasting: Lead rigorous Profit and Loss forecasting and reforecasting processes to support strategic planning, capital allocation, and informed operational decision-making.
- Financial Integrity: Ensure balance sheet controls are applied consistently so that Profit and Loss results are accurate, complete, and reliable for executive and Board reporting.
- Systems Ownership: Maintain strategic ownership of the SAGE financial system in partnership with the Group IT Manager, ensuring appropriate financial controls, data integrity, and reporting capability to support commercial and governance requirements.
Compliance, Health and Safety
- Executive Oversight: Provide leadership and oversight of compliance and health and safety requirements through clear policies and operating procedures that meet statutory obligations, accounting standards and minimizing risk where necessary.
- Policy and Control Frameworks: Ensure robust financial and company policies, procedures, and internal control frameworks are established, maintained, and periodically reviewed to support regulatory compliance and effective risk management.
- Assurance and Audit Readiness: Maintain assurance over compliance performance through appropriate monitoring, reporting, and audit readiness, ensuring accurate record-keeping and timely remediation of identified issues or breaches.
- Business Continuity and Resilience: Implement and maintain finance-specific business continuity and emergency response procedures at property level, aligned to Group frameworks, to ensure continuity of critical financial processes and controls.
- Culture and Ethical Standards: Champion a safe, ethical, and compliant workplace culture, reinforcing accountability, integrity, and responsible environmental and sustainability practices.
REQUIREMENTS:
- At least 5 years’ to 7 years of experience in a senior finance management, essential. With accountability for financial reporting
forecasting, balance sheet governance, and compliance.
- Extensive hotel or resort exposure in a senior finance position
- Bachelor of Commerce Degree – from a recognised University, essential
- CPA or CA preferably
- Maintains high attention to detail and accuracy, ensuring work meets or exceeds required quality benchmarks
- Promotes a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging feedback, learning, and refinement
- Able to build and maintain strong, professional internal and external relationships
- Approachable and supportive, providing guidance where necessary regarding regulations, compliance or operational matters
- Manages multiple projects or responsibilities simultaneously, effectively balancing expectations of colleagues and stakeholder
- Effectively forecasts, plans, and prioritizes tasks by recognizing dependencies and critical deadlines, allocating time and resources to meet business objectives.
- Demonstrated experience operating at executive or senior leadership level, providing financial insight and advice to support strategic and commercial decision-making.
- Proven experience leading and developing high-performing finance teams, including capability building, succession planning, and performance management.
- Strong experience working within complex, multi-entity or multi-site organisations, with sound governance and control frameworks.
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