FP&A Analyst

Summary

Join AvantStay, a rapidly growing tech-enabled hospitality company, as an Analyst. You will play a key role in supporting the FP&A team and senior leadership, providing strategic financial analysis and insights. Your responsibilities will include preparing reports and presentations for executives and the Board of Directors, developing financial models, and working cross-functionally to identify risks and opportunities. This role requires 3-5 years of experience in a public company or high-growth startup, a Bachelor's degree, and advanced Excel skills. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the company's financial infrastructure and work in a fast-paced, remote environment.

Requirements

• 3-5 years overall experience in public company and/or high-growth startup. FP&A, Strategic Finance, or other Corporate Finance roles
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Strong business acumen and problem-solving skills beyond numbers
• Ability to think through multiple scenarios and apply strategic judgment to assist with decision making
• Self-starter with a bias for action
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Demonstrated ability to perform quantitative and qualitative analysis of assets using financial modeling techniques
• Demonstrated ability to effectively define and resolve problems that balance multiple needs and interests
• Excellent communication and people skills and an ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth company
• Proven ability to build strong working relationships with business partners and are seen as a trusted advisor

Responsibilities

• Support the FP&A team and senior leadership on ongoing functional planning, analysis, and reporting needs
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports and presentations, including work to be presented to company executives and the Board of Directors, and assist with the fundraising process
• Develop and maintain department-specific financial models and dashboards to provide business leaders and managers with insights into their KPIs
• Maintain company operating model and work with executive team for raising equity and debt capital through various rounds of complex financing
• Work closely with the Real Estate, FP&A, Accounting and Finance Operations Teams to identify risks and opportunities to property level P&Ls, and implement strategies to improve or resolve
• Improve financial insights by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; and recommending actions to management
• Assist in analyzing potential investments including market and financial analyses
• Perform acquisition due diligence including the review of leases, financial conditions, historical property operating results, financial assumptions and other information

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Hospitality or Real Estate
• Experience with NetSuite and EPM tools such as Planful, Adaptive, or Hyperion
• Exposure to SQL and complex data frameworks
• Working knowledge of real estate and/or hospitality investment analysis, financial modeling, valuation, and metrics
• Capability of building complicated lending, equity/ownership, operating performance, GP/LP waterfall structures, sensitivity tables, and scenario analyses
• Knowledge of IRR, NPV, cash flow, ROI, levered/unlevered yield, cash-on-cash, yield-on-cost, NOI, cap rate, ADR, occupancy, etc

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• 100% remote - work from anywhere