director financial planning & analysis

Are you an experienced finance leader ready to support the transition into a high-performing hotel management operator? You’ll collaborate with the executive stakeholders of the company to deliver strategic insights and enable data-driven decision making to make this a success.

This role combines financial leadership with influence and innovation. You’ll help co-create the finance strategy, strengthen performance, and contribute to a purpose-driven, inclusive culture.

With opportunities to grow in areas like sustainability, accounting, and corporate finance, this is more than a leadership role — it’s a platform for lasting impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide and support an engaged team responsible for finance business partnering and all financial planning activities of citizenM
• Ensure business performance is regularly reviewed and enhanced across key areas, including team strategy execution, monthly financial outcomes, and decision-making
• Collaborate on the shift to a more effective hotel management operating model by aligning financial strategy with operations, enhancing asset performance, and fostering financial awareness across the organization
• Provide actionable insights into financial and non-financial performance, clearly communicating business trends and implications to senior leadership
• Coordinate and manage the financial planning cycle, including performance analysis and identification of strategic risks and opportunities
• Develop business cases for innovation and growth initiatives, ensuring clear accountability and responsible resource use
• Advocate for data analytics and automation, leveraging tools like Tagetik and PowerBI
• Work with financial control teams to ensure a smooth and consistent month-end closing process
• Contribute to the ongoing development of citizenM’s finance strategy by identifying opportunities for improvement, standardization, and best practices

Qualifications / skills

• A Master’s degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or economics
• Solid experience in finance, business control, M&A, consulting, or accounting
• Proven experience as a people manager, with the flexibility to lead through change and build strong teams
• Highly analytical with strong problem-solving skills and a strategic approach
• Excellent communication skills — you’re able to translate insights for a wide range of stakeholders
• Ability to oversee consolidated performance and recognize strategic risks and opportunities
• Confident working with a range of internal and external contacts, including leadership and board members
• Able to lead key initiatives and support strategic planning
• Knowledge of change management and corporate finance
• A proactive, collaborative mindset and enthusiasm for developing effective solutions

What's in it for you?

• citizenM experience nights for you (and friends and family)
• Personal and professional development opportunities and programs
• Latest tech devices and all the tools you need to be successful in your role
• Commuting travel costs covered (by car or public transport)
• Pension and cycle-to-work scheme
• Subsidized fresh daily lunches at our support office
• Flexible public holidays
• Employee assistance program
• Varied team days and social events (from food trucks and quizzes at the office to parties on boats)
• Spacious office in a historic building surrounded by gardens

About citizenM

citizenM is an affordable luxury hotel chain for mobile citizens of the world. With a style that will knock your socks off, we offer citizens a real home from home, plus the world’s fluffiest pillows. Our typical guest is a frequent traveler who is quality and design-driven, and value-conscious. We currently have hotels in the Netherlands, France, UK, Switzerland, Denmark, USA, and Asia, with more to come soon. We are proud to put hospitality back into the hospitality industry and have received numerous awards for our groundbreaking approach. We like to do things differently. This means our hotels are not traditional… and neither are our support offices. We're open-minded, with kind hearts and global minds.

We actively seek applications from qualified individuals and groups who are under-represented in the workplace, whether in relation to religion, ethnicity, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability. We’re also happy to make accommodations in the interview process and beyond to best suit the needs and strengths of disabled people and neurodivergent individuals. If you require accommodations, please add a note in your application and we will work together to find the best solution possible.