Vice President of Accounting

Vice President of Accounting

The Vice President of Accounting is a senior leadership role and key strategic partner to the CFO, responsible for overseeing all aspects of the accounting function and building a best-in-class financial organization supporting hospitality (HOA operations, vacation rentals, hotels). This individual will serve as a strong leader—someone who operates with independence, intellectual curiosity, and a proactive mindset.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who anticipates issues before they arise, asks thoughtful questions, challenges the status quo constructively, and drives continuous improvement across processes, controls, systems, and people. This role requires a hands‑on leader with strong emotional intelligence, the ability to inspire and motivate teams, and a demonstrated track record of strengthening internal controls and leading enterprise‑wide system implementations.

• Serve as a trusted thought partner to the Executive Committee, developing a strong partnership with the COO, to proactively identify risks, opportunities, and operational improvements.
• Lead with a hands‑on, roll‑up‑your‑sleeves approach while maintaining a strategic perspective.
• Build, mentor, and inspire a high‑performing accounting team with a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Lead Accounting team that reflects EWH’s culture of authentic hospitality, connections that matter, and care for place and people.
• Foster an environment that encourages curiosity, professional growth, and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Develop future leaders within the accounting organization through coaching, delegation, and succession planning.
• Drive a culture of strong internal controls, operational discipline, and ethical decision‑making.

• Lead preparation of accurate and timely financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
• Provide thoughtful analysis and insights that support strategic business decisions and drive long‑term financial sustainability.
• Monitor and interpret financial trends and variances and communicate findings to the Executive team.
• Lead the budgeting and planning process including annual operating plan.
• Prepare and present budgets, regular financial reviews, forecasts and other financial reports to company leadership, executives and ownership in a timely and accurate fashion.
• Achieve budget objectives by regularly analyzing and investigating variances as well as initiating and / or recommending corrective actions.
• Compare revenue, sales and profit projections to actual figures and budgeted expenses to actual expenses; make or oversee any necessary adjustments to future projections and budgets.
• Prepare, forecast, and monitor Cash Flow.
• Oversight of cash management ensuring sufficient yield on funds and proper collection protocols are in place.

• Design, implement, and continuously enhance a robust internal control environment to safeguard company assets and mitigate risk.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant accounting and tax standards, laws and regulations.
• Lead annual external and internal audit process for the company.
• Ensure timely reconciliation of balance sheet accounts for all companies and business units.
• Focus on digital transformations and improvements through reviews & analysis of existing systems and processes. Recommend and implement improvements to these systems and processes to assure full optimization of same.
• Evaluate and strengthen accounting processes to ensure scalability, efficiency, and compliance, including identifying opportunities for automation and championing best practices.
• Lead process documentation and standardization efforts to support growth and operational consistency.
• Identify automation opportunities and champion best practices in financial operations.

• Challenge assumptions constructively and present alternative perspectives backed by data.
• Partner cross‑functionally with operations, HR, IT, and executive leadership to improve business performance.
• Balance operational execution with long‑term strategic planning.
• Communicate financial…