Head of FP&A (Global, Remote)

Who we are...

AvantStay delivers exceptional, unique stays for group travelers. The company has built a tech-enabled millennial hospitality brand to be the new standard for group experience. We are venture funded and growing rapidly in the explosive $100+ billion dollar STR industry.

What we are looking for…

As the head of the FP&A team at AvantStay, you will have unique visibility across the entire company and serve as a key liaison between our teams. You will turn your analyses into deep insights, communicate these insights to key stakeholders and executives, and drive strategic decision making. You will work cross-functionally and empower leaders across the company by delivering strategic analyses and actionable insights.

As the Head of FP&A, you will lead all financial planning processes, develop scalable forecasting models, and deliver insights that guide operational and strategic decisions. This role requires someone with deep analytical expertise, strong business acumen, and a solid understanding of marketplace dynamics such as occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, channel mix, seasonality, and property-level economics. You will partner closely with Operations, Revenue Management, Growth, and Executive Leadership to drive financial performance.

What you’ll do…

• Develop and maintain department-specific financial models and dashboards to provide business leaders and managers with insights into their KPIs.
• Build complex models that support the implementation, execution and progress, of innovative and strategic decisions
• Improve financial insights by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; and recommending actions to management
• Oversee preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual forecasts / budgets, tracking them against actual performance, and delivering insights to management
• Oversee potential investment & acquisition due diligence including the review of leases, financial conditions, historical property operating results, financial assumptions and other information
• Maintain company operating model and work with executive team for raising equity and debt capital through various rounds of complex financing
• Partner with Accounting and Finance Operations leadership to identify risks and opportunities to property level P&Ls, and implement strategies to improve or resolve

Requirements

What you’ll bring…

• 8–12+ years of progressive FP&A or strategic finance experience; experience in hospitality, prop-tech, vacation rentals, marketplace businesses, or multi-unit operations strongly preferred.
• Experience working in high-growth or private equity–backed environments a plus.
• Exceptional analytical, communication, and storytelling abilities.
• Ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in a fast-paced environment.
• Working knowledge of real estate and/or hospitality investment analysis, financial modeling, valuation, and metrics, including but not limited to:
• Financial modeling: capability of building complicated lending, equity/ownership, operating performance, GP/LP waterfall structures, sensitivity tables, and scenario analyses
• Metrics: IRR, NPV, cash flow, ROI, levered/unlevered yield, cash-on-cash, yield-on-cost, NOI, cap rate, ADR, occupancy, etc.
• Expertise with BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI), SQL, and advanced Excel/Sheets.

Benefits

• $70,000-100,000 annual salary
• Performance bonus & equity
• 100% remote - work from anywhere
• Opportunity to lead a function and shape the financial strategy of a rapidly growing hospitality tech company