Reporting to the Director of Finance & Performance, and based in Orient Espress Sailing Yachts’ headquarter in Paris, the Operation finance controller will contribute on:
- Working closely with onboard finance officers and HQ teams to monitor and challenge cruise-by-cruise performance across all revenue streams and cost categories for both vessels, ensuring accurate reporting and actionable insights
- Actively contribute to the drafting, implementation and updates of operational reporting (in the PMS), and ensuring the proper communication of figures from the PMS to the corporate ERP
- Strong involvement in the annual budget process, the variance analysis between actuals and budget, and the preparation of regular reforecasts throughout the year, relying on interactions with operational teams
- Participating in monthly closings, including posting accruals, and reviewing commissions
- Analyzing, anticipating, and regularly communicating on the vessel’s financial situation
- Drafting, updating and ensuring proper application of operational finance procedures between the vessels and the HQ (reporting, accounting principles, etc.)
- Drafting, updating and ensuring proper application of onboard operational control / internal audit procedures: inventory audit, cash registers, safes audits, complimentary items, deductions
- Actively contribute to ensuring compliance with internal control rules at HQ
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support financial initiatives and projects, and ensure a transversal function between the vessels and the HQ
- Supporting operational departments by providing various financial analyses
- Involvement, and active participation in achieving the GOP and the financial targets of the vessels
- Monitoring paymasters and various debtors in connection with departments, including follow-ups
- Monitoring agency commissions, OTAs, and other distribution-related commissions
- Monitoring cash flow projections, in direct collaboration with the accounting team