Your day to day
People
- Manage everyday activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
- Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals - recognize good performance
- Train your team to make sure they deliver with compliance, to our standards and have the tools they need to work efficiently
- Recommend or initiate any HR elated actions where needed
- Direct the team on how decision-making impacts profits
Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive – connect departments to create sense of one team
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Responsible Business
- Implement and maintain acceptable accounting practices as required by company policy and procedures
- Ensure financial control procedures and systems are ethical and legal
- Participate in local recognized professional and industry organizations
- Manage hotel contracts (example: vendor leases and/or service contracts)
Other ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done
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Financial
- Use financial analysis, data trends and market information to anticipate needs, identify operating/financial issues, and recommend actions to maximize financial return
- Create the annual operating budget for the property and provide analytical support during budget reviews to identify cost saving and productivity opportunities for department heads
- Ensure all accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis and oversee the process of credit extension and collection of overdue accounts
- Review rates and recommend rate strategy to the General Manager; participate in sales strategymeetings
- Manage accounts payable to balance cash flow and reputation with suppliers
- Analyze ROI for capital projects prior to committing funds and, upon completion, determine if anticipated results were achieved
- Maximize cash flow performance of the hotel through controls on inventory (avoid excessive supply),credit and collection, disbursements, deposits and remittances
Guest Experience
- Help guests - you’ll be happy to help if someone needs assistance with a request or complaint
- Ensure accounting practices, support the guest experience through payment options (e.g. credit card systems, room charges), inventory controls and financial dispute resolution
Accountabilities
This is the top Accounting job in a large, luxury, or resort hotel. Typically supervises clerical accounting employees in a full range of functions such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit/Collections, Purchasing, Audit, Payroll, and/or Accounting Operations.
What we need from you
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Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification / equivalent in Accounting and Finance
- 10-12years’ experience in hotel accounting or audit with at least one year in an Assistant Controller or similar supervisory role, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
- Knowledge of accounting management duties e.g. negotiating hotel space and tenant leases; processing payroll; performing asset management duties; providing business projections, displacement analysis, preparing government reports, filing tax returns etc
- Professional accounting or finance designation or certification preferred.
Must speak local language(s). Other languages preferred
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