Manager, Finance Business Partner

About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.

At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location:

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company's commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.

Manager, Finance Business Partner

The Manager, Finance Business Partner will act as a strategic advisor to the Commercial and Sales organizations, driving financial insights and enabling data-driven decisions. This role is critical in supporting the company's Performance Transformation initiatives, including the transition to the D365 and OneStream financial systems, and delivering actionable insights to optimize business results across corporate and hotel spend.

What You'll Be Doing:

Performance Transformation & System Transition

• Lead the migration and adoption by programs owners of marketing programs into the OneStream platform, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency.
• Participate in UAT testing to validate historical data and functionality where required.
• Act as a change champion for adoption of the new D365 accounting system across Commercial and Sales organizations, providing assistance and training as required.
• Contribute thought leadership throughout Performance Transformation journey as it pertains to Commercial and Sales organization.

Commercial Insights & Spend Optimization

• Deliver key insights into commercial and sales performance by integrating corporate-level and hotel-level spend data. Advance and leverage PowerBI dashboards to enhance visibility into vendor, agency, and hotel spend.
• Lead quarterly Funds reporting packages for senior leadership, providing transparency on T&E and co-marketing funds. Monitor adoption and compliance of new budgeting and ROI templates.

Sales Partnership & ROI Analysis

• Partner with Sales to quantify ROI for tradeshows and sales events, leveraging standardized budget and ROI templates.
• Deliver post-event reports and insights to support data-driven decisions.
• Create stream-lined reporting, leveraging Power BI or OneStream reporting to recommend program changes, optimization etc.

Special Projects/Ad-hoc

• Prepare financial modelling and provide business case support for strategic plan spend.
• Collaborate with regional and commercial business partner to analyze hotel budgets, and actual spend to support the required outcomes of the Commercial organization.
• Participate in other financial analysis as required.

What You Bring:

• Minimum 7 years of progressive finance experience, including business partnering roles.
• Experience with financial systems; OneStream knowledge is an asset.
• CPA, MBA, or equivalent finance / accounting experience.
• University Degree – focus in finance/business/accounting.
• Proficient in use of accounting software – such as Microsoft D365, Essbase.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint.
• Experience with financial planning systems (OneStream preferred).

Key Skills/Who you Are:

• Team player with an excellent attitude and a strong work ethic.
• Extremely proactive with the ability to handle new developments as they arise.
• Highly creative problem solver, able to access multiple information sources to solve problems.
• Strong accounting and financial modelling skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strategic, analytical and have solid business acumen.
• Good understanding of the hotel market, particularly the luxury segment.
• Strong research and fact-finding skills.
• Excellent analytical skills a must.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Professional maturity, initiative, and resourcefulness.

This role will be a Hybrid working model, which will require 3 days per week in the Four Seasons Corporate Office located at 1165 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario #LI-Hybrid

Four Seasons is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.