VP, Operations Finance

Description

Department: Asset Management

Reports to: SVP, Asset Management

Location: Chicago, IL or Nashville, TN

This role will be performed onsite in the Chicago or Nashville office.

Adventurous Journeys ("AJCP") Capital Partners is a vertically integrated real estate investment manager founded in 2008. The firm repositions real estate to build timeless, scalable businesses and brand platforms. We deliver returns on transformative real estate by applying placemaking, inspired design, and hospitality principles to spaces overlooked or undervalued by traditional investment firms. The firm’s current portfolio includes $5.3 billion of assets across 100+ properties and 50+ geographic markets.

With a mission to humanize hospitality through handcrafted projects made by people for people, AJCP delivers spaces that evoke emotional connections and become backdrops for enriching life experiences. Our headquarters are in Nashville, with offices in Chicago, London, and Miami. For more information on AJCP, please visit

The VP, Operations Finance will serve as a strategic finance leader supporting the operational, financial, and investment performance of AJCP’s hospitality, F&B, and residential assets, including Chief’s on Broadway, Field & Stream, Hotel 1928, Hotel Pontchartrain, Memoir Residential, Coral Sands, and additional platforms as the firm scales.

In this role, you will partner closely with the SVP, Asset Management and act as a strategic partner to the business for the portfolio they manage. The role will interface directly with a variety of groups within AJCP including Fund Accounting, Asset Management, Capital Markets, Portfolio Management and Investor Relations. You will oversee a team of AJ professionals and collaborate with third-party operating partners to drive operational efficiency and accurate financial reporting.

The portfolio includes complex real estate, hotel, restaurant, and residential operations providing leadership that elevates financial discipline, operational rigor, and value creation across the organization.

• Oversee all property-level and operational accounting for assigned assets, ensuring timely and accurate monthly close processes, financial statements, lender reporting, and internal reporting packages.
• Ensure the integrity of daily operational accounting data across Toast, Shopify, Tripleseat, Tixr, Sage Intacct, Yardi, Margin Edge, and other systems supporting hotel, F&B, and residential operations.
• Direct the preparation and review of reconciled balance sheets, P&Ls with variance analysis, statements of cash flows, and performance dashboards.
• Oversee compliance with GAAP, including revenue recognition, capitalization, allocations, and fair-value considerations.
• Manage relationships with third-party operators and coordinate oversight of their teams and the quality of reporting.
• Strengthen and scale internal controls, accounting policies, and reporting workflows across the operations finance ecosystem.

• Serve as the senior finance point of contact between AJCP and property management finance teams, setting priorities, resolving escalations, and driving alignment across operational stakeholders.
• Partner with Asset Management to review monthly performance, forecasts, flex/flow analyses, STR reports, PACE reports, and other operational analytics; identify trends and provide recommendations to enhance revenue, margin, and working capital efficiency.
• Oversee treasury and cash management activities across assets, including liquidity forecasting and lender reporting including loan covenant compliance.
• Collaborate with Investments and Capital Markets by providing sophisticated financial analysis and operational insights to support underwriting, diligence, equity raises, joint ventures, and loan originations/refinancings.
• Lead financial support for the closing of new acquisitions and capital markets transactions, including due diligence coordination, settlement statement reconciliations, onboarding, and alignment of acquired assets to AJCP’s financial standards.
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