Assistant Commercial Finance Manager

Waldorf Astoria London - Admiralty Arch is seeking an Assistant Commercial Manager to join the pre-opening team for this highly anticipated new luxury hotel opening later this year.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced luxury hospitality leader to join the founding team and help shape the guest experience at this landmark hotel.

Located at the end of The Mall opposite Buckingham Palace, Waldorf Astoria London – Admiralty Arch will feature 100 elegant rooms and suites and 17,500 sqft of private residences. The hotel will open with two signature restaurants - Coreus by Clare Smyth and Café Boulud by Daniel Boulud - bringing together two of the world’s most celebrated Michelin-starred chefs. Guests will also enjoy a world-class spa, state-of-the-art fitness facilities, and a collection of grand event spaces, including a ballroom for up to 320 guests.

Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts is Hilton’s flagship luxury brand, known for its timeless elegance, iconic properties, and sincerely elevated service that delivers bespoke, once-in-a-lifetime experiences in the world’s most sought-after destinations.

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A World of Rewards

• Complimentary, nourishing meals provided while on duty
• Exceptional development programmes, designed to support and accelerate your growth at every stage
• Opportunities to make a meaningful impact through our industry ‑ leading Corporate Responsibility initiatives
• Team Member Travel Programme, offering exclusive discounted stays and 50% off food & beverage
• High street savings through Perks at Work
• 28 days’ holiday, including bank holidays, rising to 33 days with length of service

Here's what you'll do during a typical day

The Assistant Commercial Finance Manager is responsible for supporting the Director of Finance in driving financial performance and ensuring challenge and insight across their hotel. The role has accountability for developing excellent working relationships across a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including within Operations Finance, Hotel Operations, Commercial VPs, Central Functional leadership, Leaseholders, Owners and Asset Managers and the broader commercial finance team.

They will have responsibility for identifying emerging risks and opportunities, providing robust and appropriate financial advice on commercial activities and making suitable recommendations to drive value.

The Assistant Commercial Finance Manager will also support the Director of Finance as the Operations Finance interface to key stakeholders and will be tasked with presenting consistent and effective information to support their requirements and maximise returns.

The role will work closely with the FP&A team to challenge and provide insight on performance. The Assistant Commercial Finance Manager will use this analysis to build action plans to maximize profitability for the hotel.

The role holder must be comfortable influencing at Senior level and combine the ability to think strategically with a positive hands-on attitude. Key stakeholders will include FP&A team, UK&I Hotel Exec Leadership, Hotel Commercial Leadership, Hotel General Managers, Owners, Asset Managers, Corporate Functional Leads.

The role will also be responsible for driving a high performing team culture.

What will I be doing?

• Assist Director of Finance in their role as internal asset manager for Hilton and lead Operations Finance to drive performance and maximise profitability.
• Partner with the FP&A team to ensure that forecasts are robust and challenge the Hotels performance.
• Use variance analysis provided by FP&A team to explain commercial reason for variances and develop & implement action plans to improve negative variances.
• Partner with Central Corporate Functions to identify areas of opportunity to increase revenues or reduce costs across the estate.
• Manage development of commercial finance analysis (value chain analysis, financial modelling, opportunity assessment, return on investment analysis, cash flow analysis and other financial tools) to develop recommendation to business leads and strategy assessments to support decision making.
• Review, provide input, approve and present completed analyses that require expert knowledge of financial models and application of strategic and operational measures to assess economic and commercial viability of proposed business decisions.
• Communicate and interpret findings across brand, distribution channel and economic trends based on financial analysis that provides additional perspectives on implications, risk, opportunity and trends.
• Partner with Corporate Functions to identify commercial opportunities for the Hotel estate (cost savings; revenue initiatives; working capital improvements).
• Serve as a business partner and financial advisor to hotel management and ownership, area management and corporate offices.
• Assist and advise team heads in the interpretation and analysis of financial data, recommending courses of action to maximize hotel profitability.
• Ensure hotels are in compliance with Corporate Policies (SPI’s) and governmental rules and regulations. Report irregularities and non-compliant situations as required by corporate guidelines.
• Ensure that the best interest of the hotels, HHC and owners are protected.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills (all levels of management and external customers).

What are we looking for?

• Ability to analyze large volume of complex financial information from many sources and create reports, forecasts, and projections
• Strong problem solving skills, including the ability to effectively address any issue in collaboration with others as appropriate
• Ability to proactively identify and prevent potential problems
• Ability to help develop problem solving skills among direct reports and other team members as appropriate
• Ability to take initiative to identify, prioritize and implement all elements required for team to fulfill responsibilities
• Ability to manage and develop staff
• Detail oriented and organized
• Ability to develop presentations and effectively present to all levels of company, hotels & owners
• Strong communication and negotiation skills (all levels of management and external customers
• Proficient in MS Excel, Word and Outlook with the ability to quickly learn new programs when required

Additional preferences

University degree in Accounting or Finance

What It Takes to Make the Stay

At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:

A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality . Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership . A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now , bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.