Senior Accountant
October 8, 2024Litigations Support Analyst
October 8, 2024KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Job summary –
- Responsible for: overall management of all finance, accounting, purchasing and MIS functions, including, but not limited to safeguarding all assets, strategic planning/budgeting, and compliance with internal controls and procedures.
Essential Duties and Responsibility – (Key Activities)
The following are specific responsibilities and contributions critical to the successful performance of the position:
- Maintain complete knowledge of and comply with all departmental policies, service procedures and standards.
- Ensure that standards are maintained at a superior level on a daily basis.
- Responsible for preparation of financial information including, but not limited to forecasts, financial statements, variance analyses, and payroll/productivity studies.
- Prepare and maintain annual operating budget.
- Provide leadership and motivation to accounting staff. Evaluate staff. Recommend individuals for promotion, hiring and termination. Prepare and implement in-house training plans.
- Control and monitor payroll and expenditures for department.
- Administer and update hotel credit policy.
- Control and reduce accounts receivable.
- Plan and direct monthly credit meetings.
- Work closely with all Executive team members in achieving hotel's goals and objectives.
- Control, monitor and forecast cash flow.
- Enforce legal and fiscal obligations as mandated by government agencies in compliance with professional standards.
- Prepare, implement and maintain a departmental mission l statement. .
- Maintain a file for all original operating licenses and permits of the hotel. Responsible for a timely review and renewal of all operating licenses and permits.
- Establish and maintain objectives and guidelines for valuables which are lost/found with Director of Security & Safety.
- Maintain all monthly hotel operating inventories.
- Maintain property management system.
- Responsible for employee compliance with hotel policies and procedures. Initiate disciplinary action when appropriate.
- Support the hotel philosophy concerning hiring, employee relations, disciplinary action, training, counseling, evaluating, etc.
- Interact in courteous and professional manner with all guests, staff and community members.
- Respond to and resolve guest and staff difficulties in courteous, professional and prompt manner.
- Apply principles of logical thinking to a wide range of unstandardized intellectual and practical problems in order to perform and direct many varied and complex tasks.
- Interact with people beyond giving and receiving instructions, particularly interaction with supervisor, subordinates, co-workers, and guests in completing assignments, resolving staff and guest complaints.
- Interpret and comply with a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form.
- Perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
This list of essential functions is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary.
Other Standard Responsibilities –
Experience –
- A minimum of 5 years’ progressive hotel accounting experience with a luxury or ultra-luxury property.
General Skills –
- Must be able to perform job functions with attention to detail, speed and accuracy; prioritize, organize and follow-up; be a clear thinker, remaining calm and resolving problems using good judgment; follow directions thoroughly; understand a guest’s service needs; work cohesively with co-workers as part of a team; work with minimal supervision; maintain confidentiality of guest information and pertinent hotel data.
Technical Skills –
- Thorough knowledge of accounting/hotel operations, purchasing and MIS functions
- thorough knowledge of budgeting and generally accepted accounting principles
- ability to maintain technical competence in accounting, tax matters and emerging hotel industry innovations
- ability to direct and coordinate accounting functions
- ability to communicate verbally and in writing in English
- ability to train, motivate, evaluate, mentor and direct employees and managers to achieve desired results
- ability to access, input, analyze and retrieve information from computers; ability to maintain excellent relations with staff
- ability to maintain staff and guest confidentiality at all times
- ability to accept responsibility for actions of others
- ability to manage by example; exceptional oral communication skills to negotiate and persuade guests and staff to achieve results beneficial to operation of hotel
- ability to add and subtract three digit numbers
- ability to perform mathematical operations with units of measure including, but, not limited to percentages, dollars, cents, feet, inches, cups, pounds and ounces; ability to create, implement and monitor hotel and staff goals, strategies and policies
- ability to converse calmly with irate guests, superiors and subordinates in sometimes intense emotional situations
- ability to focus and maintain attention to performance of tasks despite frequent stressful, emergency, critical or unusual interruptions
- ability to memorize, recollect and quickly retrieve dates, names, times and other data
- ability to work and complete assignments on time despite frequent stressful, emergency, critical or unusual 'interruptions
- ability to participate in (and lead when necessary) all departmental and hotel-wide meetings.
Education or Certification –
- Four year college degree in Accounting