Director, Finance Transformation

City Experiences is seeking a Director, Finance Transformation for our Finance operations in Orlando

About You:

This person will be adaptable, dynamic, and embody City Experiences' RESPECT Service System.

About the Opportunity:

The Director of Finance Transformation is responsible for driving finance transformation and insight of the company's value creation plan.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Oversee and coordinate tracking and reporting for the Company's value creation plan, including reporting to the Company's private equity owner.
• Ensure alignment between value creation planning, reporting and execution, to understand any value leakage.
• Analyze and understand value creation strategy and ensure Finance and IT can support the organization in its transformation
• Develop, implement, and maintain robust analytical capabilities to drive new insights around the business and performance management that is accretive to the Company's strategy.
• Understand areas of opportunity based on recognizing how historical financial results and patterns will influence future performance and earnings.
• Manage initiatives with internal teams as well as external consultants to drive the development of foundational processes and tools.
• Drive completion of projects in a timely manner to drive step changes within the organization.
• Collaborate with the CFO, VP FP&A, and department heads to consistently refresh the value creation planand connect operating performance to planned performance.
• Establish KPI dashboards and work cross-functionally to track and manage project costs, budget, and performance.
• Monitor actual value creation performance against the budget, analyze variances, and provide insights to support decision-making.
• Provide financial leadership in long-term planning and strategic financial initiatives.

Requirements & Qualifications:

• 8+ years' experience in professional services preferred.
• Masters or Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or related area of study.
• High EQ, enabling strong relationships and effective communication.
• Experience delivering to middle-market Private Equity Sponsors and their portfolio companies.
• Experience working with and delivering for senior executive leaders (e.g., Operating Partners, Portfolio Support Teams, CFO, Controller).
• Experience leading and solving end-to-end transformation across people, process, and technology.
• Extensive experience in working with transactions and related integration activities.
• Understanding of end-to-end Office of CFO (FP&A, Accounting, etc.)
• Technology adept and experience managing large data sets and data visualization tools.
• Big 4 experience.
• CPA, CFA a plus.

About Us:

City Experiences' passion is to provide amazing experiences on land and water. Our 40-year success through organic growth and acquisitions has resulted in a portfolio of over 25+ brands that welcome upwards of 30 million guests/riders annually. If you're an enthusiastic team player who thrives in an environment where communication, creativity, and cooperation are encouraged, this may just be the opportunity for you.

The RESPECT Service System embodies City Experiences' mission, vision, values and operating principles. By creating a company culture that puts RESPECT at its core, we believe it will drive us to achieve our goal of becoming a Global Experiences and Transportation Leader.

The Company is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment against any applicants or employees based upon their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mental or physical disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics prohibited by applicable law.

Additionally, we encourage all qualified applicants including those with past arrest or conviction records to apply. The Company participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations.

We encourage qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records to apply.