Vice President, Finance - Year Round

Deer Valley Resort • Deer Valley, UT

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The VP of Finance leads the resort Finance function and serves as the primary financial strategist and business partner to the Resort President and Senior Leadership Team. The role is accountable for connecting financial insight to operational action, supporting resort profitability, strengthening forecast discipline, and ensuring financial decisions align with resort priorities, regional direction, and enterprise expectations. The VP of Finance reports directly to the Resort President and maintains Finance functional accountability to the Regional VP of Finance for finance standards, forecasting cadence, risks and opportunities, regional performance narrative, benchmarking, capital planning expectations, process discipline, and finance talent development. The role is expected to move the resort Finance function beyond reporting results by helping identify root causes, frame options, support decisions, and drive measurable action plans. The VP of Finance should ensure Finance informs and challenges business decisions. The VP of Finance leads finance team members who support day-to-day financial operations, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, analysis, and business partnership across resort operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field.
• MBA, CPA, or equivalent experience preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive financial leadership experience (10+ years overall) in hospitality, resort operations, real estate development, or a similarly complex operating environment.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a strategic business partner to senior operating leaders and translate financial results into business actions.
• Proven ability to lead financial strategy, forecasting, risks and opportunities, capital planning, investment analysis, and operational action planning.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a matrixed environment with accountability to both resort leadership and regional / corporate Finance leadership.
• Strong ability to influence operating leaders and support decision-making without overstepping functional ownership.
• Experience building financial narratives, capital business cases, ROI analysis, benchmarking insights, and measurable action plans.
• Experience working with ownership groups, corporate finance teams, real estate partners, shared service teams, and external stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of financial governance, internal controls, risk mitigation, compliance, working capital management, and standard accounting processes.
• Ability to develop Finance talent and build stronger resort Finance capability.
• Comfort working through ambiguity while reinforcing process discipline, decision rights, trust-based accountability, and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary strategic Finance advisor and partner to the Resort President and Senior Leadership Team, providing financial leadership, business insight, and operational context to drive profitability, support enterprise priorities, and improve overall resort performance
• Lead the development and execution of the resort’s financial strategy, partnering with regional and corporate Finance leaders to align planning, forecasting, capital investment, performance management, and long-term financial objectives with region and enterprise expectations
• Translate financial results and operations data into actionable business recommendations by identifying performance drivers, evaluating risks and opportunities, informing key decisions, and ensuring clear accountability for measurable outcomes and sustained business improvement.
• Serve as the resort Finance lead for financial performance management, ensuring results, forecasts, risks, and opportunities are clearly understood and connected to measurable action plans.
• Partner with resort leaders and enterprise stakeholders to evaluate strategic initiatives, investments, operating model changes, and to support long-range planning, annual planning, major investment decisions, new revenue opportunities, partnerships, guest experience investments, and operating model changes by assessing financial return, risk, labor impact, capital requirements, and long-term enterprise value.
• Translate resort, operation, and commercial objectives into financial targets, performance metrics, and decision-support frameworks that enable informed business planning while reinforcing accountability among functional leaders for execution and results
• Lead the resort forecasting process in partnership with resort, regional, and corporate leadership and support monthly and in-season business reviews with analysis that leads to decisions, owners, timelines, and measurable outcomes.
• Own the resort risks and opportunities process, ensuring financial impacts are clearly quantified, tied to operational drivers, and supported by actionable mitigation or capture plans.
• Develop clear financial narratives for monthly business reviews, forecasts, annual planning, long-range planning, and other regional or enterprise review forums.
• Partner with the Regional VP of Finance to identify cross-resort trends, performance gaps, benchmarking insights, and opportunities that may have broader regional or enterprise application.
• Lead long-term capital planning oversight for the resort, ensuring alignment between development projects, maintenance capital, operational capital investment, return expectations, and long-term financial strategy.
• Provide financial oversight for investment return diligence, including assessment of risks, opportunities, strategic rationale, financial return, operating impact, guest impact, and labor implications.
• Support development of business cases that clearly identify strategic rationale, financial return, operating impact, guest impact, labor implications, and risks while partnering with the Regional VP of Finance to ensure capital requests are evaluated consistently across the region and aligned with regional and enterprise capital planning expectations.
• Partner with the Finance Team to monitor resort maintenance capital, assess large capital requests, and track post-approval performance of major capital investments against original business case assumptions.
• Collaborate with corporate development, real estate, treasury, accounting, shared services, and other enterprise partners on resort development projects, acquisitions, new builds, expansion opportunities, and major strategic initiatives.
• Oversee financial governance, internal controls, and regulatory compliance across resort financial operations.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, SOX, corporate financial policies, and all applicable regulatory financial standards.
• Reinforce standard Finance and Accounting processes, ensuring the resort does not rely on informal workarounds or relationship-based exceptions.
• Develop working capital optimization strategies in coordination with Corporate Treasury.
• Help shift Finance from reactionary reporting to proactive business partnership that is structured, prioritized, and connected to measurable business outcomes.
• Support meeting discipline by helping identify decisions, owners, due dates, risks, dependencies, and communication needs.
• Reinforce clear decision rights between the Resort President, SLT leaders, Finance, Regional Finance, and corporate partners.
• Create trust-based accountability through clear expectations, policies, guardrails, follow-up, and measurable outcomes.
• Develop the finance and analyst teams into stronger business partners with operational curiosity, root cause orientation, and action-based support.
• Support Lodging and resort leadership with financial analysis, reporting, controls, and transparency related to owner, HOA, and lodging-managed services, as appropriate.
• Partner with Lodging, Accounting, Shared Services, and other stakeholders to ensure HOA-related financial activity is managed in alignment with applicable agreements, reporting expectations, and enterprise standards.
• Provide financial support for owner- or HOA-related matters where they intersect with resort financial planning, risk assessment, or enterprise reporting.
• Serve as the primary resort Finance partner to the Regional VP of Finance, Corporate FP&A, Accounting, Treasury, Development, Shared Services, auditors, and regulatory authorities.
• Partner with the Regional VP of Finance on regional performance reviews, benchmarking, financial storytelling, and escalation of resort-level risks and opportunities.
• Ensure the Resort President and SLT understand regional and enterprise Finance expectations.
• Help translate corporate and regional Finance direction into practical resort-level actions.
• Work with Alterra’s corporate finance, development, real estate, treasury, accounting, and shared services teams on financial planning, reporting, funding strategies, and strategic initiatives.

Benefits

• Ski perks (vary based on employment status) may include Deer Valley season pass, free skiing or riding at other Alterra Resorts and select local Utah resorts
• Friends and family ski discounts
• Free staff ski lessons and discounted rentals (winter staff only)
• Subsidized meals at Employee Dining Rooms offered for staff while on shift
• Subsidized housing options available for seasonal full-time staff
• Discounts for staff members at restaurants, shops, and service providers in Park City
• Healthcare options are available for staff members
• 401k plan with company match

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive