Elite Havens Finance & Admin Director
About Elite Havens
For 25 years, Elite Havens has been offering discerning travelers a respite from everyday life.
Today, we offer over 300 private luxury villas and chalets across Asia's most awe-inspiring locations, including Bali, Nusa Lembongan, Lombok, Phuket, Koh Samui, Niseko, India, Sri Lanka and Maldives.
From beautiful spaces and cultural adventure to exquisite service and fine dining, every carefully considered moment creates the space for guests to reconnect with what's really important; the extraordinary experience of life.
Our diverse team, located across multiple locations, draws on extensive experience to put the needs of our guests first during every stage of their journey, from booking through to check in and beyond. We delight in the details, taking pleasure in the small things, across all areas of our business, that collectively make a real difference.
To learn more about Elite Havens, please visit www.elitehavens.com.
About the role
Leadership
- As a member of the leadership team, the Finance Director works with the CEO and head of departments to set the company vision, roadmap, and growth plans.
- The Finance Director is accountable for monitoring Elite Havens overall P&L and shared KPIs.
- Manages and leads all activities of all Finance and Accounting staff across the region and all financial entities for Elite Havens Group
- Provides leadership and coaches for the Finance team across all Elite Havens Groups offices.
- Lead a high-performing finance team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and talent development.
Strategy
- Provide the CEO and executives with meaningful insights and advice to assist decision making, enabling the achievement of key strategic objectives.
- Leads the development of strategy roadmap and growth ambitions.
- Lead acquisition and integration projects
- Provide commercial support and data analytics to business to enable better decision making.
Finance operations
- Accountable for all financial planning and reporting cycles across the year with input from the CEO and the leadership team.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual comparisons of actual results to budget and forecasts on the agreed timetable.
- Prepare monthly cashflow statements and ensure proper cash management.
- Oversee the implementation and management and operations of accounting teams across the region.
- Owns the relationship with third party suppliers; payment gateways, banks, and finance specific vendors.
- Supports Upgrade systems, procedures, governance & controls.
- Ensures Finance and Accounting compliance with regulatory bodies in all jurisdictions.
- Work with the IT director to establish a data and analytics function to foster fact-based decision making.
- Manages the relationship with Dusit group finance team.
Manila Office Administration
- Oversee general administration management of the Manila office.
- Handle all Philippines government and legal interactions.
- Oversee all contracts pertinent to Philippines operations.
- Act as a brand ambassador for the company and its various affiliates.
- These responsibilities will be modified and expanded overtime in discussions with the CEO.
About you
- Proven people leader with a track record of achievement at Director/CFO level.
- Must be CA or CPA qualified, CMA highly desirable.
- Experience leading a finance function within a diverse team across multiple locations.
- Experience in leading change projects and business transformation.
- Proven communication, commercial acumen, and strategic thinking.
- Strategic planning and modelling capability and experience.
- M&A experience desirable.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to liaise with a wide range of stakeholders.
