Director of Finance & Business Support

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

• 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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