Director, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis
Fort Lauderdale, FL - USA
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Job Summary
Join Vacatia and Shape the Financial Strategy Behind Our Growth
Location: Fort Lauderdale Florida On-Site
Vacatia is an innovative hospitality company reinventing the vacation rental and ownership experience across discovery booking and stay. Were building the next generation of travel lifestyle products blending technology hospitality and design to create smarter more connected experiences for guests owners and partners.
Were looking for a strategic hands-on Director of Corporate FP&A to lead our Financial Planning and Analysis function from end to end. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer this leader will oversee budgeting long-range planning forecasting financial modeling and executive and board-level reporting across our portfolio of approximately 15 properties and corporate operations.
Youll serve as a strategic finance partner to the President and leaders across Sales Operations Legal People & Culture Asset Management and other key functions. Youll also build and develop the Corporate FP&A team establish scalable financial processes and translate complex financial and operational information into clear recommendations that guide business decisions.
If youre an experienced finance leader who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on analysis and enjoys building teams systems and processes this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on Vacatias continued growth.
Why Youll Love It Here
- Partner directly with the CFO President executive leadership and ownership on high-impact business decisions.
- Lead financial planning and strategy across a growing portfolio of approximately 15 properties.
- Build and develop the Corporate FP&A team and establish the foundation for a scalable finance function.
- Influence capital allocation acquisitions revenue initiatives financing structures and other strategic priorities.
- Create the models dashboards reporting and processes that will shape how Vacatia measures performance and plans for growth.
Your Impact
- Lead annual budgeting long-range planning and quarterly reforecasting across Vacatias property portfolio and corporate operations.
- Own executive and board-level reporting translating property-level performance KPI trends and financial variances into a clear strategic narrative.
- Partner with the President and CFO on capital allocation competitive benchmarking acquisitions revenue opportunities and other strategic initiatives.
- Oversee financial analysis of Vacatias in-house financing and collections portfolio including portfolio risk delinquency default credit and macroeconomic trends.
- Build and continuously improve the FP&A function through team development reporting automation dashboarding data extraction and scalable planning processes.
What You Bring
- Eight to twelve years of progressive experience in FP&A corporate finance investment banking private equity or a related financial discipline.
- At least two to three years of experience leading teams developing finance professionals or building an FP&A function.
- Experience in hospitality vacation ownership multi-site real estate or another asset-heavy portfolio-based organization.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities with demonstrated experience building reporting infrastructure and FP&A processes from the ground up; Python or SQL experience is a meaningful advantage.
- Strong executive presence and the ability to communicate complex financial information clearly and credibly to senior leaders board members and ownership.
- A bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics Business or a related field is required. An MBA CFA or CPA designation and familiarity with consumer finance concepts including securitization advance rates FICO-based underwriting and collections analytics are preferred but not required.
Join Us
At Vacatia youll have the opportunity to build a critical finance function influence portfolio-wide strategy and help leadership make confident data-driven decisions. If youre ready to combine financial expertise executive partnership and team leadership to support the next stage of our growth wed love to hear from you.
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About Company
Vacatia is the resort marketplace for vacationing families. Instantly book resort residences with the space of a home + services of a hotel, perfect for family travel.