Director of Finance (Fort Worth, TX)

OUR COMPANY 
Auberge Resorts Collection is a portfolio of extraordinary hotels, resorts, residences, and private clubs. While each property is unique, all share a crafted approach to luxury and bring the soul of the locale to life through captivating design, exceptional cuisine and spas, and gracious yet unobtrusive service. With hotels and resorts across three continents, Auberge invites guests to create unforgettable stories in some of the world’s most desirable destinations. Please visit aubergeresorts.com to learn more about our Collection. Follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Linkedin, Facebook and Pinterest: @AubergeResorts and #AlwaysAuberge.

Our mission is to be the best-loved operator of one-of-a-kind luxury properties and experiences. Auberge is a family of intimate, one-of-kind hotels and resorts that define an approachable style of luxury in both product and service that resonates with the curious modern traveler. Passionately local, experience-led, romantic, and stylish, these hotels hum with a vibrancy that is both refined and relevant.

OUR PROPERTY
Bowie House, Auberge Resorts is an imaginative and bold new urban retreat that draws visitors to a place whose history is built on tales of frontier valor and adventure. An exciting gathering space for locals and visitors alike, the four-story, 106-room boutique hotel will feature 88 rooms and 18 suites, including a 2,250 square foot signature suite. Luxurious spaces weave together details from Western culture and style like boot jacks and hat racks with contemporary furnishings, lighting and artwork creating feelings of welcome and warmth.
A social hub for locals and visitors, Bowie House offers numerous spaces for visitors to enjoy the conviviality and camaraderie that have distinguished the location for so many years. Visitors can sip cocktails in the library lounge, visit the signature restaurant with views of the enchanting outdoor terraces or relax in cabanas on the second story outdoor infinity pool overlooking a peaceful garden oasis.

ROLE SUMMARY
 Join our team as Director of Finance at Bowie House in Fort Worth TX, reporting to the General Manager with a dotted reporting line to SVP, Finance Operations.  You will be responsible for leading and building our finance discipline by deepening ownership trust and confidence, building the team, setting up protocols, oversight of multiple budgets and post opening, driving strong financial performance. We look to the person in this position to deliver superior financial performance, ensure operational efficiencies, implement effective financial controls, and put in place practical, non-bureaucratic policies and procedures.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the financial input into the formulation and implementation of the Hotel Strategic Plan and Budget, and any other key strategic planning exercises

• Maximize cash flow performance of the hotel

• Establish and maintain adequate controls for all revenues and expenses and protection of assets

• Deal honestly and fairly with clients, customers, suppliers, and financial partners

• Maintain accurate and timely financial information and provide analysis interpretations and projections

• Take responsibility for the professional development of all team members by identifying training needs and supporting the funding of necessary training

• Maintain an awareness of and adherence to all applicable laws, rules, and regulations

• Ensure safe and proper storage and tracking for all contracts, leases and other financial records

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline

• Prior experience as a property finance leader

• Excellent understanding of the Uniform System of Accounts

• Total proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and accounting software

• Deep experience with hotel financial reporting systems, policies and procedures, and management agreements and collective bargaining agreements

• Experience with operating and financial agreements; demonstrated success in evaluating risks and developing proactive strategies and plans to mitigate business issues

• Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills; ability to take large volumes of complex information and present in a clear and concise manner to senior management and owners

• Ability to develop and implement strategic plans to grow our revenue streams

• Ability to understand business issues and operations in terms of revenue, costs, profit, customer and service expectations

• Ability to create Proformas and ROI’s to build the business and improve YOY revenue growth

• Ability to build, maintain, and proactively communicate cash flow statements

• Pragmatic, “problem-solving” approach when dealing with challenges, coupled with the ability to evolve thinking

• Demonstrates guest centric/market focus and the capacity to create and lead the implementation of strategic, creative and fiscally sound programs that drive business results through performance marketing and positioning

• Strong stakeholder management skills at a senior level

• Ability to manage sizable teams and budgets and is relentlessly focused on results

• Experience leading change and preferably integration in entrepreneurial, brand-led hospitality businesses; able to bring alignment behind an initiative, keep it on track and lead it through to successful execution

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A proven leader of multi-channel teams, with experience of managing through multiple time zones and across geographies and putting in place rigorous KPIs and processes to generate measurable business results and driving revenues

• Passionate about building, developing and mentoring highly successful teams in a high pressure, fast moving environment

• Ability to influence and communicate in a succinct manner

OUR STORY
At Auberge, we are passionate about our mission to be the best-loved operator of one-of-a-kind luxury properties and experiences.  We are storytellers and story-makers, delivering simple pleasures and creating unforgettable memories.  Born in Napa and inspired by the most relaxing places in the world, we prize simplicity, comfort, and beauty.  Whatever role we play in Auberge, and wherever we work, we all live by the view that our core purpose is to enrich people’s lives. If you feel that our approach is aligned with your own passions and beliefs, then please share with us why you want to become part of our collection.

Auberge Resorts LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V. Auberge Resorts LLC provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all team members and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Auberge Resorts LLC complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
 

Department: Finance
This is a full time position