Hybrid Vice President, Accounting chez Avion Hospitality

Description

The Vice President of Accounting plays a critical leadership role in overseeing all corporate and hotel-level financial operations. This position ensures timely, accurate, and compliant financial reporting, leads a high-performing team, and partners closely with operations, ownership groups, and executive leadership to support strategic decision-making.

This role is ideal for a hands-on, forward-thinking leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to help shape the financial infrastructure of a growing organization.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Oversee the accounting function across all hotel and corporate entities, ensuring accurate monthly financial statements, reconciliations, and cash flow management.
• Partner with the SVP and executive leadership to support business growth, acquisition onboarding, and financial forecasting.
• Serve as the financial liaison with hotel ownership groups, private equity partners, and external stakeholders.
• Identify and implement scalable financial systems, process improvements, and internal controls to support rapid company growth.
• Lead financial due diligence for new acquisitions or transitions.

Team Management & Development

• Directly manage the Sr. Director of Accounting and indirectly oversee Accounting Managers and Staff Accountants.
• Provide coaching, mentorship, and performance management to foster a high-accountability, high-collaboration culture.
• Assess team structure regularly to align with company growth and complexity.

Compliance & Controls

• Ensure GAAP compliance, tax reporting accuracy, and adherence to internal control standards.
• Manage internal and external audits, working closely with auditors and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain policies and procedures that ensure data integrity, security, and regulatory compliance.

Operational Excellence

• Oversee month-end close processes across all hotel entities, including journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Lead the preparation and review of property-level and consolidated financial statements.
• Support the budgeting, forecasting, and capital planning processes across the portfolio.
• Collaborate with HR, IT, and Operations to ensure cross-functional alignment in financial data and reporting.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA preferred.
• Minimum of 10+ years of progressive accounting leadership, with at least 3 years in a VP or Controller role.
• Experience overseeing multi-entity hospitality operations (hotel management company or ownership group strongly preferred).
• Familiarity with hospitality-specific systems such as M3, ProfitSword, BirchStreet, and brand reporting platforms (e.g., Marriott, Hilton).
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting, audits, and internal controls.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high-performing teams through change and growth.
• Excellent communication skills, especially in presenting financials to ownership groups and executives.
• Hands-on, proactive leadership style with an ability to toggle between strategy and execution.