FP&A Analyst

Summary

Join AvantStay, a rapidly growing tech-enabled hospitality company, as an Analyst. You will play a key liaison role between teams, turning analyses into actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making. Partner with functional teams on forecasting, reporting, and presentations for executives and the Board of Directors. Develop and maintain financial models and dashboards, contributing to the company's financial infrastructure. Work closely with various teams to identify risks and opportunities, build complex models for strategic decisions, and support the implementation of an enterprise planning solution. Analyze potential investments and perform acquisition due diligence. This role offers unique visibility across the company and exposure to world-class venture capital funds.

Requirements

• Experience: 3-5 years overall experience in public company and/or high-growth startup. FP&A, Strategic Finance, or other Corporate Finance roles. Experience in Hospitality or Real Estate is a plus
• Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Knowledge: You have a strong business acumen and know that problem-solving goes beyond the numbers. You can think through multiple scenarios and apply strategic judgment to assist with decision making
• Natural talent and energy: You are a self-starter and have a bias for action. You will have a unique opportunity to help implement enterprise-level financial infrastructure, create new analyses and cross-functional projects
• Excellence: 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
• Communication and trust: 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

• Partner effectively with functional teams to produce and prepare monthly, quarterly and annual forecasts / budgets, tracking them against actual performance, and delivering insights to management
• 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, which will provide you with exposure to world-class venture capital funds
• 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 FP&A, Accounting and Finance Operations Teams to identify risks and opportunities to property level P&Ls, and implement strategies to improve or resolve
• 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
• Support scoping and buildout of requirements for enterprise planning solution for the Corporate Finance function
• 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

• Systems Savvy: Experience with NetSuite and EPM tools such as Planful, Adaptive, or Hyperion preferred; exposure to SQL and complex data frameworks a plus
• Preferred 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

Benefits

• $3,000 USD monthly compensation
• 100% remote - work from anywhere