Director of Finance AEMEA - New Hotel Openings (Raffles & Fairmont)

About the role

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, part of Accor, is recruiting a Director of Finance covering the AEMEA region, with a focus on new hotel openings at Raffles and Fairmont properties. The role provides day-to-day finance support and guidance to hotel Directors of Finance and acts as a subject-matter expert on hotel finance processes, systems and USALI, including Sun and Opera.

Key responsibilities

• Provide flexible on-site support across the region based on hotel, business and corporate priorities.
• Support new hotel openings, takeovers and integrations, ensuring finance readiness and effective transition.
• Oversee the quality and accuracy of budgeting, forecasting, accrual and reporting processes.
• Drive consistent onboarding of hotel Finance Directors/Managers through structured tools, SOPs and training.
• Provide interim finance leadership during periods of absence and deliver targeted training on financial, operational and reporting topics.
• Review hotel financial performance, challenge key assumptions and identify improvements.
• Support review of Management and Hotel Agreements and related financial obligations, and support internal audit remediation actions.
• Contribute to regional and global finance projects and the rollout of Raffles, Fairmont and Accor policies and procedures.
• Lead trading reviews using KPIs and benchmarking, prepare regional financial analysis and reporting, and monitor compliance with Management Agreements.
• Monitor hotel and Accor receivables, ensuring timely collection and follow-up of delinquent balances.

Required profile

• Minimum 10 years of relevant business experience, including team leadership.
• Significant experience as a hotel Finance Director / Area Finance Director in an international hospitality environment.
• Proven project management experience in a matrix organisation and across multiple business units.
• Experience in an international or global organisation.
• Degree qualified or equivalent in Economics, Accounting/Business or MBA.
• Willingness and ability to travel across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa; experience supporting new hotel openings is desirable.

Required skills

• Strong knowledge of the leisure and hospitality industry, hotel operations and corporate finance.
• Knowledge of BI platforms such as Tableau/Power BI.
• Fluent English; French and/or Arabic desirable.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, strong analytical and numerical capability, and strong interpersonal, negotiation and problem-solving skills.