Sr. Analyst, Portfolio & Asset Management at Vacatia in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Job description

• Join Vacatia and Help Drive the Performance of Our Resort Portfolio
• Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL (On-Site/Hybrid)
• Own Real Assets
• Take meaningful ownership of a portfolio of resorts and develop a deep understanding of their performance and business plans.
• Work Directly With Leadership
• Partner closely with senior Asset Management leaders, General Managers, and the President to influence property-level decisions.
• Turn Data Into Action
• Go beyond financial reporting to identify trends, challenge results, and recommend actions that improve performance.
• Build Your Hospitality Expertise
• Gain exposure to hotel operations, revenue strategy, capital planning, acquisitions, repositioning, and portfolio performance.
• Make a Visible Impact
• Your analysis and recommendations will directly influence how Vacatia operates and invests in its growing resort portfolio.
• Join Vacatia and help shape the performance of a growing portfolio of resorts. As our Senior Analyst, Portfolio & Asset Management, you'll have the opportunity to work directly with senior leadership, develop deep hospitality expertise, and see your analysis translate into real decisions across the portfolio.
• If you're ready to move beyond traditional financial analysis and take ownership of real assets and business outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Own a sub-portfolio of Vacatia properties and serve as a primary internal asset management contact
• Review property-level P&Ls, occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, guest satisfaction, and other key hospitality metrics
• Identify performance trends and variances and partner with Asset Management leaders and GMs to drive action
• Support the annual business planning process, including revenue strategy, cost initiatives, and capital priorities
• Own and continuously improve the GM Weekly Report, translating operational and guest feedback into clear portfolio insights
• Benchmark property performance against industry peers and relevant market data
• Develop recommendations related to repositioning, renovations, revenue opportunities, cost initiatives, and operational improvements
• Support acquisition, development, and repositioning evaluations
• Partner with Corporate FP&A on portfolio forecasting and financial analysis
• Periodically travel to assigned properties to conduct performance reviews with GMs and operations leadership

Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in institutional hotel asset management, hospitality investment/private equity, or hotel operations finance
• Experience taking ownership of property or portfolio performance rather than focusing solely on financial modeling
• Strong understanding of hospitality KPIs including RevPAR, ADR, occupancy, GOP flow-through, and guest satisfaction
• Advanced Excel skills and strong analytical capabilities
• Ability to communicate confidently with property leaders and senior stakeholders
• Strong business judgment with the ability to turn data into clear recommendations
• High attention to detail, ownership, and curiosity about how hospitality businesses operate
• Willingness to travel periodically to assigned properties
• Experience with institutional hospitality investment managers or hotel asset management platforms
• Experience with Blackstone Real Estate, Noble Investment Group, Host Hotels, Ashford, Watermark, or similar organizations
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or comparable reporting tools
• Background in hospitality, hotel operations, vacation ownership, or resort management

Skills

Required

• Advanced Excel
• Strong analytical capabilities
• Business judgment
• Attention to detail
• Ownership
• Curiosity about hospitality businesses
• Willingness to travel

Preferred

• Power BI
• Tableau