Chief Accountant

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

• 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

Financial

• Use financial analysis, data trends and market information to anticipate needs, identify operating/financial issues, and recommend actions to maximize financial return

• Supporting HODs to 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 monthly and oversee the process of credit extension and collection of overdue accounts

• Manage accounts payable to balance cash flow and reputation with suppliers

• 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

• Ensure maintain good relationship with our suppliers and contractors 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

• 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

• Competitive salary package.
• Other perks in accordance with the company's policies and the state regulations. 

What we need from you:

• Strong communication skills

• Strong organizational skills, problem-solving skills, analytical skills, negotiation skills

• 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

• Pre-opening projects and residential experience are an advantage

• Professional accounting or finance designation or certification preferred.