Sr. Director Finance & Strategy

Senior Director – Finance & Strategy

MISSION

Responsible for guiding the Company’s overall strategy and ensuring that objectives are clearly defined, communicated, and working to support the overall strategy.

Responsible for designing and establishing the Company’s overall control environment and overseeing production of timely, accurate financial statements that comply with generally accepted accounting principles and meet all constituents’ needs.

Responsible for overseeing short-term and long-term budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow planning for the Company’s events, as well as overhead and capital expenditures.

Responsible for overseeing pricing, inventory, and revenue management to maximize Company’s revenue and profit.

DESCRIPTORS

Proactive, Solution-Oriented, Strategic, Adaptable, Organized, Multi-Tasker, Analytical, Reliable, Versatile

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Proactively serve alongside the SDA team (Sixthman’s leadership team) to contribute to the Company’s overall mission, strategy, culture, and processes for world-class execution on- and off-board
  • Oversee the development of policies and procedures to ensure that financial statements are timely and accurate and conform to GAAP and SOX requirements as well as serving the evolving needs of the various business constituents (executive team, parent company, host partners, etc.)
  • Prepare or oversee weekly cash flow forecasts, ensuring that excess cash is transferred to Treasury while remaining cash balances are sufficient to cover expenditures
  • Interface with Norwegian finance, accounting, internal audit, tax, port operations and executive teams to answer questions, resolve problems, negotiate issues, etc.
  • Oversee the preparation of information needed for external and internal audit and implement IA recommendations
  • Review and certify all monthly balance sheet reconciliations
  • Own the short-term and long-term budgeting and forecasting process for annual budget / RF process including assimilation of necessary information, evaluation and assumption making, and primary point of contact for any variance explanations
  • Leverage existing reporting tools and develop new ones to facilitate financial and operational analysis of the business (dashboard, Sail Today, tools, surveys, etc.)
  • Review and approve Event Settlement statements at completion of events
  • Develop and oversee pricing, inventory and revenue management strategies for the Company’s on sale events and make and/or implement appropriate recommendations to maximize revenue and profit
  • Establish and track KPI’s and other financial metrics to analyze the business and to evaluate the degree to which strategic objectives are being met
  • Serve as the primary lead for driving certain Human Resources related projects or initiatives including:
    • Development and approval of annual Bonus Plan and targets
    • Oversight of the Company’s annual performance review / raise / promotion process (forms / timelines data / training / proposals etc.)
    • Consultation with managers on performance management and related issues
    • Understanding of benefit plans and communications to employees
  • Oversee the preparation of the charter allocation sign-off sheets and charter related documents (OBR template, charter invoice, etc.) and provide recommendations based on insights obtained related to ports, fuel, taxes, etc.
  • Prepare executive level presentations for company and Norwegian executive team as well as for presentations to support business development
  • Prepare or oversee the preparation of event budget templates as needed for various new event types or business model types
  • Develop and implement process and procedure improvements to support scalability of growth of the company into new segments and new geographical markets while maintaining adequate controls and accuracy
  • Continually evaluate financial and other systems to ensure capabilities of system are maximized and to recommend and modifications or enhancements needed and lead any implementations to other systems as needed
  • Additional projects and duties as assigned
  • Sail on several of the Company’s music festivals at sea annually and perform various duties onboard, often serving in onboard leadership roles (Charter CEO, Event Director) with the goal of delivering world class experience to guests, artists and partners

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance (experience in both is a major plus)
  • 10 years of accounting/finance experience, CPA strongly preferred
  • Peoplesoft Financials experience a plus
  • Demonstrated ability to guide strategy and execution
  • Hands-on experience with data analysis and modeling
  • Ability to keep information confidential required
  • Must have good verbal, written and interpersonal skills
  • Strong analytical and solution-oriented problem-solving skills
  • Detail oriented with high accuracy, strong organization skills, and ability to multitask
  • Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changes or challenges
  • Computer proficiency (Email, Word, and strong Excel skills)

WHO LEADS YOU

CEO of Sixthman

Apply Here: https://sixthman.bamboohr.com/careers/121?source=aWQ9MjQ%3D