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About the Role
As Assistant Director of Finance, you will establish and maintain the Finance function for Cambridge House, a new luxury hotel in Mayfair. This role involves protecting business integrity, providing financial insights, and ensuring sound financial foundations.
Responsibilities
- Support the Regional Director of Finance in establishing and maintaining robust financial controls, procedures, and reporting standards.
- Oversee the day-to-day finance function, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and organization.
- Support and develop finance team members.
- Lead the month-end process, including journals, accruals, reconciliations, balance sheet reviews, and management accounts.
- Implement financial systems, processes, controls, and reporting for pre-opening.
- Contribute to pre-opening financial planning, expenditure controls, asset management, and operational readiness.
- Serve as a finance point of contact, making financial information clear and accessible.
- Monitor performance, manage costs, and ensure accurate revenue reporting with various departments.
- Maintain effective controls across purchasing, accounts payable, credit control, payroll, cash handling, stock, and inventory.
- Review daily revenue reports and reconciliations across PMS, POS, and other financial systems.
- Support payroll processes, including journals, TRONC, and commissions.
- Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations.
- Support VAT, tax, and statutory reporting requirements.
- Liaise with external auditors and professional advisers.
- Deputize for the Regional Director of Finance when required.
Requirements
- Previous experience in an Assistant Director of Finance, Finance Manager, or equivalent role within a hospitality environment.
- Strong understanding of hotel finance, including month-end reporting, budgeting, forecasting, reconciliations, revenue, payroll, purchasing, and internal controls.
- Previous experience in a pre-opening environment is highly desirable.
- A naturally collaborative approach.
- Confidence to explain financial information clearly and thoughtfully.
- Sound judgement, discretion, and integrity.
- A genuine enjoyment of hospitality and an appreciation for exceptional guest experiences.
Skills
- Financial controls
- Financial procedures
- Reporting standards
- Month-end process
- Financial systems implementation
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Reconciliations
- Revenue management
- Payroll processing
- Purchasing controls
- Internal controls
- VAT
- Tax reporting
- Statutory reporting
- Auditing
- Commercial awareness
Location
- Mayfair
Work Type
- Management
Experience Level
- Assistant Director
- Finance Manager
Education Level
- Accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) or equivalent professional qualification is advantageous
About the Company
- Cambridge House is a historic Mayfair townhouse reawakening in 2026 as a luxury hotel.
- The property has welcomed tastemakers and world shapers throughout its history.
- It will be a vibrant gathering place and experience-driven luxury hotel.
- The imaginative renewal captures the spirit of London.
- The 18th Century Georgian mansion will be reimagined as a 102-room hotel.
- It preserves heritage while blending private and social spaces.
- Features include unique dining destinations, an Auberge spa, and an exclusive members club.
- Auberge Collection is a portfolio of extraordinary hotels, resorts, residences, and private clubs.
- Auberge properties offer a crafted approach to luxury and bring the soul of the locale to life.