Director, Financial Analysis

**JOB SUMMARY**

As part of the APEC Finance organization, the Director, Financial Analysis & Strategic Planning will coordinate with and support multiple stakeholders including regional and corporate leadership and discipline teams (e.g. Development, Asset Management, GDAP, Project Finance, Consumer Operations, Treasury, Tax) and external stakeholders. She/he must be adept at tapping diverse sources of information, anticipating challenges, and devising and executing approaches to deliver against current and future business priorities, thereby strengthening Marriott’s competitive advantage through excellence in financial management.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience
- Baccalaureate degree in Finance, Accounting or related discipline preferred.
- Minimum 10 years’ relevant work experience including complex data analysis and financial modeling.
- Demonstrated success leading and developing others in a complex, service-intensive, deadline-driven environment.
- Previous financial / corporate / investment advisory experience would be highly valued.
- Lodging/ hospitality industry experience a plus, but not a requirement.

**Skills and Competencies**
- Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills with proven understanding of economic valuation theories and processes; ability to take large volumes of complex information and present it in a clear and concise manner appropriate for senior management decision-making; uses data and a cogent problem solving methodology in decision making and impact assessment.
- Strong analytical skills, particularly in analyzing financial statements.
- Strong speadsheet (macro development, complex formulas), word processing, and presentation software skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills; able to maintain effective relationships with internal and external customers.
- Communicates effectively, both orally and in writing; listens to others and effectively comprehends information; creates an environment allowing timely information flows throughout the organization.
- Responsive; ability to integrate and balance priorities, work activities and resources for the benefit of multiple key stakeholders.
- Results oriented; delivers results under difficult conditions and demonstrates balanced judgment under pressure. Ability to assess, plan and get “the right priorities” done, on time and budget, at high quality levels; ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to consistently make decisions in a timely manner sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure; comfortable challenging organizational norms and accepted thinking to improve effectiveness.
- Solid leader of people; ability translate business priorities into actionable goals and objectives for staff; ability to motivate and develop staff.
- Ability to sell ideas persuasively; settles differences and wins concessions without damaging relationships; can be both direct and forceful while remaining diplomatic.
- Operates with a collaborative mindset to ensure that key stakeholders are considered, eliminating the need for duplicate systems; builds strong relationships to leverage information and insights to anticipate and respond to project risks; communicates well with project and other leaders; openly shares and does not withhold information.

**CORE WORK ACTIVITIES**
- Provide financial leadership over the business analysis and development finance discipline areas.
- Ensure strong functional and strategic analysis expertise to enable the organization to make optimal business decisions.
- Oversee the financial analysis and valuation work associated with new development projects, contract workout resolutions and major asset re-positioning’s.
- Lead the business analysis of key strategic initiatives in support of the Continent’s Long Range Plan.
- Partner with Global counterparts (HQ and the Continents) to ensure consistency in methodology, tools and approach for business cases and analyses.
- Plays a lead role in the evaluation of potential new hotel development projects, financial analyses and valuations of proposed transactions and presenting to senior executives. Represents the department at Hotel Development Committee.
- Leads and/ or supports the evaluation of the financial impact of alternative proposals/ workout resolutions including accurate pro forma generation, financial valuation, contract summarization, and situational analysis on portfolios. Represents the department at Asset Management Advisory Committee.
- Monitors and interprets Regional performance against the Region’s Long Range Plan in consultation with APEC Finance and other market leaders. Supports development of actionable financial/ business recommendations and responses to optimize performance and drive growth and profitability. Contributes to the development of KPIs to create early warning system of business changes and risks.
- Leads and/ or supports development of analyses for the Region’