Manager, Finance NHOPs & Business Support - Thailand - 12 months contract

Introduction

Be at the heart of bringing new hotels to life across EAPAC, ensuring every opening launches with strong financial foundations, governance, and operational readiness. This role offers a unique blend of hotel openings, finance leadership, project management, and stakeholder engagement, giving you the opportunity to make a visible impact from pre-opening through to stabilisation. If you enjoy working in dynamic environments, partnering with hotel leaders and owners, and solving complex challenges, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the success of new hotels across the region.

Your day to day

• Lead financial readiness activities for new hotel openings and conversions, supporting budgets, cash flow planning, funding requirements, and financial compliance to ensure hotels are prepared for a successful launch.
• Provide hands-on finance leadership during hotel openings, partnering with hotel teams to establish reporting processes, financial controls, payment procedures, and operational finance capabilities from day one.
• Implement governance frameworks, risk controls, and compliance processes to ensure strong financial discipline, accurate reporting, and a smooth transition into stable operations.
• Lead finance systems implementation and readiness activities, coordinating testing, configuration, go-live support, and process adoption across multiple hotel openings and projects.
• Partner closely with owners, General Managers, hotel finance leaders, and regional stakeholders to provide clear financial guidance, resolve issues, build capability, and support hotels through their post-opening stabilisation phase

What we need from you

• Significant finance experience, ideally gained within hospitality, hotel openings, operations finance, audit, or multi-unit business environments, with a strong understanding of financial controls and governance.
• Proven ability to lead projects and manage multiple stakeholders, with experience driving financial readiness, systems implementation, or operational improvement initiatives.
• Strong commercial and operational mindset, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on execution in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to partner with owners, hotel leadership teams, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or a related discipline, supported by extensive experience in finance leadership, hotel operations, or project-based environments.