Director of Finance - Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort
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Description
Here's what you'll do during a typical day:
- Drive financial strategy: Oversee all financial operations, ensuring alignment with the hotel’s strategic goals to optimize profitability and efficiency
- Oversee financial planning and analysis: Direct the preparation of annual plans, projections, and budgets, providing financial insights to support business decisions
- Advise hotel leadership: Serve as the primary financial advisor to hotel management, ownership, and department heads, offering data-driven recommendations to enhance financial performance
- Ensure financial compliance: Uphold adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and safeguard hotel assets through strong financial controls
- Optimize financial reporting: Oversee systems and processes to drive accuracy, efficiency, and transparency in financial reporting.
- Monitor and approve financial transactions: Oversee and authorize hotel sales, purchases, salaries, and expenses to maintain fiscal responsibility and operational efficiency
- Cultivate a high-performing team: Drive engagement and retention through performance management, professional development, and recognition programs
Qualifications
What It Takes to Make the Stay
At Hilton, our core values define what it takes to succeed here and guide the qualities we look for in every team member:
A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality. Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing. Inspiring others through Leadership. A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes. A sense of Ownership and accountability. And a focus on the Now, bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.
Benefits
- professional development
About this role
Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort is seeking a Director of Finance to lead all financial operations for the property. In this role, you'll drive financial strategy aligned with the hotel's goals, oversee budgeting and financial planning, and serve as the primary financial advisor to hotel leadership and ownership. You'll ensure compliance with GAAP, maintain strong financial controls, and optimize reporting systems while monitoring and approving all major financial transactions across sales, purchases, payroll, and expenses.
Beyond the numbers, you'll build and develop a high-performing finance team, focusing on engagement, professional development, and retention. This is an in-office, full-time position based in Santa Barbara that requires someone with strong financial acumen, leadership capability, and the ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations. Hilton emphasizes integrity, teamwork, ownership, and a hospitality-first mindset—qualities the company actively cultivates across its award-winning workplace culture.
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