Month: July 2026

Assistant Director of Finance – Milan

Posted on by Katherine Wyles
We are seeking a detail-oriented and motivated Assistant Director of Finance to support the finance function within a prestigious five-star hospitality environment located in the heart of Milan. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic, luxury setting and contribute to high-level financial operations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the development and implementation of strategic plans, budgets, and key performance objectives
  • Assist in implementing and reviewing financial controls and policies
  • Analyse financial and management reports to support decision-making
  • Evaluate and improve internal control measures related to accounting procedures and systems
  • Ensure compliance with internal control procedures
  • Support internal and external audit processes
  • Assist with monthly account reconciliations and review processes
  • Provide administrative and financial support to management
  • Maintain accurate and timely financial and operational reporting
  • Monitor and control inventory, credit, disbursements, deposits, and remittances
  • Ensure adherence to corporate reporting deadlines

Candidate Profile

  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an accounting or finance role
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
  • Professional accounting qualification (e.g., Certified Accountant or equivalent)
  • Previous experience in the hospitality industry is an advantage
  • Fluent in Italian and English (both written and spoken)
  • Candidates must have a relevant EU work visa

What’ on Offer

  • A modern, supportive, and collaborative working environment
  • Personalised training and development opportunities
  • Career progression within an international luxury hospitality setting
  • Access to professional development support from an in-house learning specialist
  • Attractive staff benefits, including discounted accommodation within a global portfolio of luxury hotels

If you are passionate about finance and eager to grow your career in a high-end hospitality environment, we would love to hear from you.

Please contact Andrea at fm@fmrecruitment.co.uk or call on +44 208 600 1161

Assistant Director of Finance – Vienna

Posted on by Katherine Wyles
We are seeking a detail-oriented and motivated Assistant Director of Finance to support the finance function within a prestigious five-star hospitality environment located in the heart of Vienna. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic, luxury setting and contribute to high-level financial operations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the development and implementation of strategic plans, budgets, and key performance objectives
  • Assist in implementing and reviewing financial controls and policies
  • Analyse financial and management reports to support decision-making
  • Evaluate and improve internal control measures related to accounting procedures and systems
  • Ensure compliance with internal control procedures
  • Support internal and external audit processes
  • Assist with monthly account reconciliations and review processes
  • Provide administrative and financial support to management
  • Maintain accurate and timely financial and operational reporting
  • Monitor and control inventory, credit, disbursements, deposits, and remittances
  • Ensure adherence to corporate reporting deadlines

Candidate Profile

  • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in an accounting or finance role
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
  • Professional accounting qualification (e.g., Certified Accountant or equivalent)
  • Previous experience in the hospitality industry is an advantage
  • Fluent in German and English (both written and spoken)
  • Candidates must have a relevant EU work visa

What’ on Offer

  • A modern, supportive, and collaborative working environment
  • Personalised training and development opportunities
  • Career progression within an international luxury hospitality setting
  • Access to professional development support from an in-house learning specialist
  • Attractive staff benefits, including discounted accommodation within a global portfolio of luxury hotels

If you are passionate about finance and eager to grow your career in a high-end hospitality environment, we would love to hear from you.

Please contact Andrea at fm@fmrecruitment.co.uk or call on +44 208 600 1161

 

Hospitality Knows Its Next Guest. Does It Know Its Next Employee?

Posted on by Chris Denison Smith

Hospitality is brilliant at designing what guests experience. In this abridged version of an article originally written for HOSPA’s The Overview, we ask whether hospitality businesses give the same thought to what employees experience.

Hotel groups can describe a guest’s stay in forensic detail. Discovery, booking, arrival, checkout, review. Every touchpoint mapped, tested and improved.

Ask the same operator to describe a new starter’s first ninety days, and the detail often runs out fast.

That gap is worth examining. Not because hospitality has got something wrong, but because it has already proven, through guest experience, how much difference deliberate design makes. The same thinking rarely gets pointed at the people delivering that experience.

The research backs this up. Deloitte’s 2025 Gen Z and Millennial Survey found 89% of Gen Z and 92% of millennials rate a sense of purpose as important to job satisfaction. Gallup’s 2025 workplace research shows manager quality accounts for around 70% of the difference in team engagement, yet only 44% of managers have had formal training. Hospitality’s turnover sits at roughly 52%, more than three times the UK average, and Cornell’s hospitality research has linked rising turnover to falling guest satisfaction. Guest experience and employee experience, two conversations the industry tends to keep separate, turn out to be closely connected.

None of this means younger employees are hard to manage, or that hospitality needs to lower its standards. Every generation arrives with expectations shaped by its own moment. What has changed is how easily people can compare what an employer promises with what they actually experience.

Hospitality already holds real advantages. Genuine international mobility, fast progression, hands-on skills, constant human connection. Operators including Hilton and Whitbread’s Premier Inn have shown these strengths can be designed and communicated with real intent. For most businesses, the opportunity is not inventing new benefits. It is telling the story they already have with the same craft used in guest marketing.

A useful starting point for any operator is comparing what gets invested, in budget and senior time, in acquiring the next guest against developing the next employee. Few will find the two close. That is not a criticism. It is simply where the next gain is likely to sit.

This is the work FM Recruitment does with hospitality operators every day. Helping identify where roles, skills and leadership capability need support across an existing team, not just filling vacancies. If any of this sounds familiar in your business, we would welcome a conversation.

This is an abridged version of an article written for HOSPA’s The Overview. The full original article is available on HOSPA’s The Overview.

https://www.hospa.org/post/hospitality-knows-its-next-guest-does-it-knowits-next-employee

FM Recruitment works with hospitality operators on permanent and interim Finance, IT & Procurement positions. If you’d like to talk through how the current market is affecting your hiring approach, please get in touch and we can have that conversation.

 Chris Denison Smith, Managing Director – FM Recruitment

+44 7775 711923 / +44 20 8 600 1160 / chrisdenisonsmith@fmrecruitment.co.uk  

Group Financial Reporting Manager – London

Posted on by Katherine Wyles

Are you a technically strong finance professional looking for your next step within a high-growth international business?

We’re exclusively partnering with an ambitious, private equity-backed organisation that is expanding rapidly across Europe. As they continue to grow, they are seeking an experienced Group Financial Reporting Manager to join their high-performing finance team.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a qualified accountant who enjoys working in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment where you’ll have genuine exposure to senior leadership, strategic projects and business transformation.

This role is office based – Monday to Friday.

The Opportunity

Reporting directly to the VP Finance, you’ll play a key role in delivering accurate Group financial reporting, managing treasury activities, overseeing debt reporting and supporting the continued evolution of the finance function.

This is a broad and highly visible position, offering exposure across multiple entities and international operations while giving you the opportunity to influence processes and drive continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead Group treasury activities including cash management, forecasting and liquidity planning.
  • Manage lender reporting, loan covenant compliance and debt administration.
  • Prepare quarterly owner and shareholder reporting.
  • Oversee accounting for debt, interest, treasury transactions and hedging.
  • Manage intercompany funding and balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Support month-end and year-end reporting processes.
  • Act as the key contact for banking relationships and administration.
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders including auditors, legal advisers and senior management.
  • Lead and develop a Financial Accountant.
  • Drive finance process improvements and support business-critical transformation projects.

About You

You’ll be a qualified accountant from one of the big 10 accounting firms  (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with strong technical accounting expertise and experience working within a Group Finance environment.

You’ll also bring:

  • Strong knowledge of IFRS and financial reporting.
  • Experience within multi-entity or international organisations.
  • Treasury, debt or cash management experience.
  • Excellent analytical and Excel skills, with exposure to ERP systems such as NetSuite being advantageous.
  • A proactive approach with the confidence to challenge processes and identify improvements.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships across the business.
  • A hands-on attitude and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment.
  • Candidates should be eligible to work in the UK as sponsorship will not be provided.

Why Join?

  • Join a rapidly growing international organisation with exciting expansion plans.
  • Broad exposure across Group Finance, treasury and strategic projects.
  • Work closely with an experienced senior leadership team.
  • Genuine opportunities for career progression as the business continues to scale.
  • A collaborative, ambitious and supportive culture where your ideas will be valued.
  • Competitive salary, bonus and comprehensive benefits package.
  • Hybrid working with modern offices in London Bridge.

If you’re looking for a role that combines technical accounting, commercial exposure and the opportunity to make a real impact within a growing international business, we’d love to hear from you.

Contact Andrea at fm@fmrecruitment.co.uk or call on +44 20 8600 1161

Finance Manager – Western USA

Posted on by Katherine Wyles

We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to lead the hotel finance function and support the continued success of our client’s luxury resort. Surrounded by breathtaking alpine scenery and offering world-class hospitality, this is an exciting opportunity to combine career progression with an exceptional lifestyle.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will oversee the day-to-day operation of the finance department, leading Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Income Audit and the Finance Assistant Manager. You will be responsible for financial reporting, budgeting, reconciliations, compliance, audit support, cash flow management and driving financial performance across the property.

About You

You will have:

  • A degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline.
  • 3–5 years’ finance experience, ideally within hospitality.
  • Strong leadership and people management skills.
  • Excellent analytical and communication abilities.
  • Experience with hotel finance systems and advanced Excel skills.
  • Must be eligible to work in the US as sponsorship will not be provided.

Why Join?

  • Work within a luxury hospitality environment.
  • Be part of a collaborative and passionate team.
  • Enjoy outstanding recreational opportunities, including skiing, hiking, golf and mountain living.
  • Excellent opportunities for career development and growth.

If you’re a motivated finance professional looking for your next challenge in an exceptional destination, we’d love to hear from you.

Contact Andrea at fm@fmrecruitment.co.uk or call on +44 208 600 1161

Group Finance Manager – London

Posted on by Katherine Wyles

The Opportunity:

We are currently partnering with an incredibly prestigious, privately backed group that operates a portfolio of premium luxury wellness, boutique fitness, and high-end dining brands in Central London. With a combined turnover of circa £25m, around 300 employees, and 7 stunning sites across the capital, they represent the absolute pinnacle of premium hospitality and lifestyle.

Following significant recent investment into their flagship locations, they are looking to hire a sharp, commercially minded Group Finance Manager.

This is a brilliant, hands-on opportunity reporting directly to a dynamic Group Finance Director. You will take full ownership of the day-to-day finance operations across multiple trading entities, making it the perfect move for a qualified accountant who thrives in a fast-paced environment and loves building strong partnerships with operational teams.

Key Responsibilities:

As Group Finance Manager, you will lead a small team and act as the financial linchpin for the group’s diverse portfolio:

  • Financial Management: Deliver comprehensive monthly management accounts, variance analysis, and commentary, supported by your team.
  • Commercial Business Partnering: Produce weekly flash trade reports and collaborate directly with General Managers and Heads of Department to spot trends, manage costs, and drive efficiency.
  • Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and develop a dedicated team of three accounts assistants.
  • Group Consolidation: Oversee intercompany reconciliations, recharges, and consolidation across multiple luxury brands.
  • Operational Cash Flow & Core Finance: Maintain weekly cash flow forecasts and provide oversight for all AP, cash takings, and balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Payroll & Tronc Oversight: Supervise group payroll processing (via an outsourced provider, Fourth) and coordinate with an external troncmaster to ensure accurate distribution compliance.
  • Compliance & Audit: Manage statutory compliance (VAT returns, PAYE) and prepare schedules for the year-end audit.

About you:

This role requires someone who loves a vibrant, face-to-face team culture and possesses the communication skills to translate financial data into actionable insights for non-finance teams.

  • Qualifications: You must be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or CIMA).
  • Experience: A proven background working with similar SME businesses—either in-house or making your first move out of practice. Prior experience in the hospitality, food & beverage (F&B), or leisure sector is a massive advantage.
  • Leadership: Demonstrated experience managing and developing junior finance staff.
  • Technical Savvy: Strong Excel skills (XLOOKUPs, pivot tables) are essential. Experience with Xero and exposure to EPOS systems will put you at a distinct advantage.
  • Work Style: A collaborative, proactive approach with the ability to confidently challenge department heads when discussing site budgets.

Why Apply?

If you are tired of dry, corporate finance roles and want to work with brands that are genuinely exciting, this is it. You will get direct exposure to senior leadership, high-level project work (like labour efficiency and cost analysis), and the chance to truly influence the financial direction of an expanding luxury portfolio.

For more information or to apply, please contact Tairona at fm@fmrecruitment.co.uk or call on +44 20 8600 1164

Director of Finance – London

Posted on by Katherine Wyles

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an accomplished Director of Finance to join one of London’s most prestigious luxury hotels.

Consistently recognised among the world’s finest hotels, this iconic property is renowned for delivering exceptional guest experiences, outstanding service, and timeless British elegance. As part of an internationally respected luxury hotel collection, the hotel offers an environment where excellence, innovation, and attention to detail are at the heart of everything we do.

Reporting directly to the Managing Director and serving as a key member of the Executive Committee, you will provide strategic financial leadership across the business, driving commercial performance while ensuring the highest standards of financial governance and operational excellence.

The Role

This is a highly visible leadership position, responsible for the overall financial management of the hotel. You will partner closely with senior leadership, ownership, and the management company to shape business strategy, maximise profitability, and support continued operational success.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading all aspects of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting
  • Delivering insightful financial analysis to support strategic decision-making
  • Managing financial reporting, cash flow, balance sheet and P&L performance
  • Ensuring robust financial controls, governance and statutory compliance
  • Driving commercial initiatives, cost optimisation and operational efficiencies
  • Overseeing purchasing and procurement functions
  • Building strong relationships with ownership, auditors and external stakeholders
  • Leading, mentoring and developing a high-performing finance team
  • Championing a culture of excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement

About You

We are seeking an experienced finance leader with a proven track record within luxury hospitality.

You will bring:

  • Previous experience as a Director of Finance or Head of Finance within a luxury hotel environment
  • Strong commercial acumen and strategic thinking
  • Outstanding leadership and stakeholder management skills
  • Excellent analytical and financial planning capabilities
  • Experience managing complex financial operations and reporting
  • Advanced knowledge of financial systems and reporting tools
  • Professional accounting qualifications are preferred, although exceptional experience will also be considered
  • Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK as sponsorship will not be provided

Why Join?

This is an opportunity to become part of one of London’s most distinguished luxury hospitality destinations, celebrated for its personalised service, award-winning dining, and commitment to excellence. The hotel is internationally recognised for its exceptional standards, including Forbes Five-Star recognition, and continues to set benchmarks within the global luxury hospitality sector.

If you are an inspiring financial leader looking to make a significant impact within an iconic luxury hotel, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Apply now to be part of a world-class leadership team where excellence is not just expected—it is celebrated.

For more information or to apply, please contact Chris at fm@fmrecruitment.co.uk or call on +44 20 8600 1162

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