{"id":29874,"date":"2026-04-27T15:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/?p=29874"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:33:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:33:03","slug":"5-pressures-every-hospitality-cfo-is-feeling-and-the-fix-for-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/5-pressures-every-hospitality-cfo-is-feeling-and-the-fix-for-each\/","title":{"rendered":"5 pressures every hospitality CFO is feeling\u2014and the fix for each"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header has-dark-background-color entry-header--standard entry-header--has-illustration entry-header--has-illustration--standard\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-header__row row align-center\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col col-lg-7 col-xlg-6 entry-header__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"component component-single-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-header__misc text--subtitle text--uppercase text--small\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/category\/strategy-legal-operations\/\" class=\"entry-header__link\">Strategy, Legal &amp; Operations<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-title-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"entry-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t5 pressures every hospitality CFO is feeling\u2014and the fix for each\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"entry-header__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe hospitality CFO&#8217;s role has shifted from scorekeeper to strategic partner. Here are five pressures quietly squeezing finance leaders across hotels, resorts and restaurants.\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"single-post-details container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"posted-on \">Published <time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2026-04-27T15:33:01+01:00\">27 April, 2026<\/time><\/span><span class=\"reading-time\"> min read<\/span>\n\t\t<button\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"social-share-button button button--icon button--secondary js-social-share-button\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-title=\"5 pressures every hospitality CFO is feeling\u2014and the fix for each\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/5-pressures-every-hospitality-cfo-is-feeling-and-the-fix-for-each\/\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-text=\"Please read this interesting article\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__share-label\">Share<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__copy-label\" hidden>Copy Link<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__copy-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\" hidden>Copied<\/span>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author has-dark-background-color alignfull\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"co-authors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-author-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"entry-author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/author\/keirthomasbryant\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/06\/keir-short-hair-350x350.jpg\" class=\"entry-author__image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/06\/keir-short-hair-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/06\/keir-short-hair.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 40px) 100vw, 40px\" \/>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"entry-author__name\">Keir Thomas-Bryant<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If you lead finance for a hospitality business in 2026, you already know the role looks nothing like it did five years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The owners&#8217; meeting wants forward-looking insight, not a tidy retrospective. The lender wants covenant clarity by Friday. The operations director wants to know whether the new site can absorb another 4% on wages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And somewhere in the middle of all that, you&#8217;re still expected to close the books on time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this article we cover off five of the pressures you&#8217;re almost certainly feeling\u2014and the practical fix worth considering for each. Here&#8217;s what we discuss:<\/p>\n\n\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-table-of-contents yoast-table-of-contents\"><ul><li><a href=\"#h-1-your-portfolio-outgrew-the-spreadsheet-a-long-time-ago\" data-level=\"2\">1. Your portfolio outgrew the spreadsheet a long time ago<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-2-you-re-being-asked-to-do-more-with-a-finance-team-you-can-t-fully-staff\" data-level=\"2\">2. You&#8217;re being asked to do more with a finance team you can&#8217;t fully staff<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-3-monthly-reporting-is-too-slow-for-a-business-that-moves-daily\" data-level=\"2\">3. Monthly reporting is too slow for a business that moves daily<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-4-your-tech-stack-is-quietly-ageing-and-the-cracks-are-starting-to-show\" data-level=\"2\">4. Your tech stack is quietly ageing&mdash;and the cracks are starting to show<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-5-the-role-isn-t-really-cfo-it-s-strategic-partner-who-happens-to-run-finance\" data-level=\"2\">5. The role isn&#8217;t really &#8220;CFO&#8221;&mdash;it&#8217;s &#8220;strategic partner who happens to run finance&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-3-things-to-do-this-quarter\" data-level=\"2\">3 things to do this quarter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-final-thoughts\" data-level=\"2\">Final thoughts<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#h-frequently-asked-questions\" data-level=\"2\">Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-your-portfolio-outgrew-the-spreadsheet-a-long-time-ago\">1. Your portfolio outgrew the spreadsheet a long time ago<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The hospitality CFO has quietly become one of the most demanding seats in the C-suite. You&#8217;re balancing rising costs, thinner margins, more complex ownership structures and a workforce that&#8217;s harder than ever to staff\u2014all while being asked to act as a strategic partner to the business, not just its scorekeeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re running a single property with a single P&amp;L, this one isn&#8217;t for you. But you&#8217;re probably not. You&#8217;re consolidating across maybe half a dozen hotels, perhaps three restaurant brands, or two joint ventures and a franchised arm\u2014each with its own chart of accounts, ownership quirks and reporting cadence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manual consolidation in that environment is a bit like assembling a jigsaw where the pieces keep changing shape. It works, until it doesn&#8217;t\u2014and the moment it doesn&#8217;t is usually the moment a lender asks for a portfolio-wide view by Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The fix:<\/strong> A finance platform that handles multi-entity consolidation natively, so portfolio-level visibility is something you have, not something you have to construct from scratch each month. It also makes the next acquisition far less painful to onboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-you-re-being-asked-to-do-more-with-a-finance-team-you-can-t-fully-staff\">2. You&#8217;re being asked to do more with a finance team you can&#8217;t fully staff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Labour pressure isn&#8217;t only a front-of-house problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same tightness that&#8217;s making it hard to keep restaurant managers and night auditors is also affecting your AP clerks, management accountants and group reporting team. And every wage rise that lands across the business lands on your margin first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, much of what your finance team does day to day\u2014approvals, invoice coding, journal entries, month-end checks\u2014is exactly the kind of work that should have been automated years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The fix:<\/strong> Automate the repeatable. Your finance team&#8217;s value has never been from keying in invoices. It&#8217;s in interpreting what the numbers mean for the business. Don&#8217;t see automation as a cost-cutting exercise. See it as how you free skilled people to do the work that actually moves the dial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-monthly-reporting-is-too-slow-for-a-business-that-moves-daily\">3. Monthly reporting is too slow for a business that moves daily<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospitality is a daily business. Covers, Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR), labour ratios, wet-to-dry split, food cost percentages\u2014they shift hour by hour, never mind month by month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, when your reporting cycle delivers insight three weeks after the fact, you&#8217;re effectively driving by looking in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A pricing decision made in week one of the month, against data from the previous quarter, is a guess in a suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The fix:<\/strong> You desperately need real-time financial visibility, where revenue, margin, labour cost and cash position update as the business operates, not when the books close. No, this isn&#8217;t faster reporting for its own sake. It&#8217;s adding in a superpower: the ability to act on a softening week before it becomes a missed quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4-your-tech-stack-is-quietly-ageing-and-the-cracks-are-starting-to-show\">4. Your tech stack is quietly ageing\u2014and the cracks are starting to show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Most hospitality finance functions weren&#8217;t designed. They arose out of necessity, like the streets in an old town. Well-worn paths, that work\u2014but are unlikely to be efficient, or optimised for modern life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A POS for the restaurants. A different one for the spa. A workforce management tool the operations team chose. An accounting system bought when the group had three sites instead of thirty. A procurement platform that nobody quite owns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of those tools probably does its job in isolation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is the gaps between them\u2014the manual exports, the reconciliations, the data that doesn&#8217;t quite tie out, the audit trail that takes a week to reconstruct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The fix:<\/strong> Treat your finance technology as infrastructure, not a collection of apps. A modern, integrated finance platform that talks to your operational systems removes the silos, sharpens the audit trail, and\u2014crucially\u2014makes it far easier to bolt on a new acquisition without spending six months wiring it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-the-role-isn-t-really-cfo-it-s-strategic-partner-who-happens-to-run-finance\">5. The role isn&#8217;t really &#8220;CFO&#8221;\u2014it&#8217;s &#8220;strategic partner who happens to run finance&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Owners, investors, and boards are no longer satisfied with a clean set of accounts. They want scenario planning. They want to understand the cash impact of opening three new sites. They want to know which restaurants in the group are subsidising which, and what happens to group Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortisation (EBITDA) if labour costs rise another 5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expectation has shifted from explaining what happened to shaping what happens next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The fix:<\/strong> Get the foundation right: clean data, automated processing, real-time visibility. Then the strategic work becomes possible. You can&#8217;t be a forward-looking partner to the business if you&#8217;re still spending three weeks every month looking backward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-things-to-do-this-quarter\">3 things to do this quarter<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These five pressures rarely arrive one at a time. They compound. So a few pieces of takeaway advice as you think about the months ahead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Audit your tech stack honestly.<\/strong> Map every system the finance function touches, and every place data has to be moved by hand. The list will be longer than you expect, and it&#8217;ll tell you exactly where the pressure is building.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pick one process to automate fully\u2014not partially.<\/strong> Half-automation creates more work, not less. Choose AP, or month-end close, or consolidation, and get it properly done before moving to the next.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Set the cadence for strategic work.<\/strong> Block time, with the team, every month, for forward-looking analysis. If it isn&#8217;t on the calendar, the urgent will keep eating the important.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-final-thoughts\">Final thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The hospitality businesses that come through this period strongest won&#8217;t necessarily be the ones with the most sites or the deepest pockets. They&#8217;ll be the ones whose finance function gave the rest of the business a clearer view of the road ahead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intelligent and applied use of modern, AI-enabled technology is central. Put it at the heart of your planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"single-cta\">\n\t<div class=\"single-cta__positioner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"single-cta__wrapper has-dark-background-color\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"single-cta__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"single-cta__title h3\">Sage Intacct cloud accounting for hospitality<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"single-cta__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Drive revenue and growth using AI-powered, high performance finance software. Perfect for hotels and resorts, restaurants, entertainment venues, and other hospitality businesses.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/sage-business-cloud\/intacct\/industries\/hospitality\/#gate-08063761-ebb2-4fcd-b90d-cb3b78c323ba\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"single-cta__button button button--primary\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tid=\"cta-id-29877\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-button-location=\"cta_box\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t>Take a product tour<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1215\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-1403277131-1215x810.jpg\" class=\"single-cta__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-1403277131-1215x810.jpg 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 48em) 33vw, 100vw\" \/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-frequently-asked-questions\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"schema-faq wp-block-yoast-faq-block\"><div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1777286224217\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>How can I tell if our current finance system is genuinely holding us back?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">A few honest signals: month-end takes longer than ten working days, consolidating across entities is a manual exercise, integrating a new site after an acquisition takes months rather than weeks, and your team spends more time gathering data than analysing it. Any two of those are usually enough to start the conversation.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1777286247060\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Is real-time financial visibility realistic for a hospitality group, or is it more of a pipe dream?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">It&#8217;s realistic, provided your systems integrate. Real-time means dashboards that pull from the operational systems already running your sites, not waiting for someone to build a manual report each week. The barrier is almost always integration, not the underlying technology.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1777286270548\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>We&#8217;re a multi-brand group with mixed ownership structures. Is consolidation always going to be painful?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">It doesn&#8217;t have to be. Modern finance platforms handle multi-entity, multi-currency and multi-ownership-structure consolidation natively. The pain usually comes from forcing complex group structures into systems that weren&#8217;t built for them.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1777286294309\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>How do I make the case for finance technology investment when margins are already tight?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Frame it operationally, not as IT spend. The return sits in faster decisions, cleaner audits, easier acquisitions and finance time redirected from manual work to strategic support\u2014all of which are far easier to quantify than &#8220;better systems&#8221;.<\/p> <\/div> <div class=\"schema-faq-section\" id=\"faq-question-1777286306126\"><strong class=\"schema-faq-question\"><strong>Where does Sage Intacct fit into the picture of hospitality finance?<\/strong><\/strong> <p class=\"schema-faq-answer\">Sage Intacct is built around exactly the realities of multi-entity consolidation, real-time visibility, integration with operational systems, and the automation needed to support a lean finance team. It&#8217;s one of the platforms hospitality finance leaders turn to when they need their systems to match the complexity of the business.<\/p> <\/div> <\/div>\n\n<section class=\"more-topics alignfull has-grey-light-background-color wp-block-sage-post-topics\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col col-12 col-lg-4\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"more-topics__title h2\">Browse more topics from this article<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col col-12 col-lg-8\">\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"post-tags__list\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"post-tags__item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/tag\/business-finances\/\" class=\"post-tags__link button button--secondary\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBusiness finances\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"post-tags__item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/tag\/business-performance\/\" class=\"post-tags__link button 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\/>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"card-post__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-post__label\">Recommended<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-post__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"card-post__meta-text\"><span class=\"posted-on \"><time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2026-06-02T16:58:53+01:00\">2 June, 2026<\/time><\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"card-post__meta-text\"><span class=\"reading-time\">11 min read<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t<p class=\"card-post__title h3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"card-post__title-link\"\n\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/what-is-ap-automation\/\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tAccounts payable automation: How it works, key benefits, and why your business needs it\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"card-post__description\">\n\t\t\t\tLearn how AI-powered 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