Aspire Lifestyles
Website:
aspirelifestyles.com
Job details:
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Finance Leadership
- Lead the finance function supporting travel, concierge, and lifestyle service programs, ensuring financial performance aligns with organizational objectives and client program requirements.
- Provide strategic financial insights to senior leadership, supporting decision-making on supplier partnerships, pricing models, and client program profitability.
- Oversee financial governance across travel and leisure service operations, ensuring compliance with global accounting standards, contractual obligations, and internal control frameworks.
Finance Operations & Travel Industry Accounting
- Direct end-to-end finance operations including accounts payable, receivable, payroll oversight, and cash flow management related to travel bookings, concierge services, and lifestyle program fulfilment.
- Manage Merchant of Record (MOR) and Non-MOR transaction accounting, ensuring proper revenue recognition, cost allocation, and financial reporting aligned with client and supplier contracts.
- Oversee airline settlement processes including BSP/ARC reconciliation, ensuring accurate tracking of ticket sales, refunds, supplier invoices, and booking system records.
- Supervise supplier settlement processes with airlines, hotels, destination management companies (DMCs), transport providers, and lifestyle partners.
- Ensure accurate tracking and accounting of supplier commissions, incentives, mark-ups, rebates, and service fees arising from travel and concierge transactions.
Financial Planning & Performance Management
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning for travel and lifestyle service programs, incorporating seasonal travel demand and client engagement trends.
- Monitor program profitability, revenue streams, and operational cost drivers, identifying opportunities for margin improvement and cost optimisation.
- Develop financial dashboards and management reports highlighting KPIs such as booking volumes, supplier costs, program profitability, and service delivery expenses.
Stakeholder & Client Program Management
- Partner with operations, supplier management, and client relationship teams to provide financial oversight across travel fulfilment and concierge service delivery.
- Support commercial teams in supplier negotiations and pricing discussions, ensuring financially sustainable agreements.
- Act as a key finance liaison with regional and global leadership, ensuring alignment between financial performance and operational strategy.
Team Leadership & Process Transformation
- Lead and mentor a high-performing finance team, driving professional development and strong financial governance.
- Champion automation and digital transformation initiatives across finance processes such as reconciliation, supplier settlements, and reporting.
- Strengthen internal financial controls and compliance frameworks to mitigate operational and financial risks within travel and concierge service operations.
Required Skills
- Strong communication and analytical skill
- Strong influencing, and negotiating skills, is a team player who can drive problems/issues through to a solution and has excellent commercial judgment
- Excellent interpersonal skills to work in the team – with business-focus mentality
Required Competencies
- Ability and mindset to balance the demands of sales with business requirements and guidelines, in a timely manner.
- Ability to work in multi-tasking and high speed environment
- Able to work under pressure and deliver results to deadlines
Required Work Experience
- Multinational company experience in a fast-paced environment preferable
- Around 10-15 years’ working experience gained in Finance or business analysis experience.
- Experience in service, healthcare or assistance industry is a plus
Required Qualifications
- University degree in finance, economics, or business administration
- MBA- Finance/ CA Intermediate / CWA Intermediate/ CA Finalist (Not appearing for CA Exams)
Required Languages
- Fluent in both written and oral English
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