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About the Role
Join our Hotels team as a Senior Accountant, where your focus is to brighten guests' days through exceptional hospitality. In this role, you will oversee financial operations across the hotel portfolio, aligning with strategic goals to optimize profitability and efficiency while delivering memorable experiences for every guest.
Responsibilities
In a typical day, you will:
- Drive financial strategy: Oversee all financial operations across the hotel portfolio, ensuring alignment with the hotels’ strategic goals to optimize profitability and efficiency.
- Oversee financial planning and analysis: Direct the preparation of annual plans, projections, and budgets, providing financial insights to support business decisions.
- Advise leadership and key stakeholders: Act as the primary financial advisor to hotel management, Area/Cluster General Managers, Owners, and Asset Managers by offering data-driven recommendations to enhance financial performance.
- Build cross-functional partnerships: Develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, including Hotel Finance, Commercial, IT, Procurement, Human Resources, Operations, Shared Service Centres, and Regional Operations Finance.
- Ensure financial compliance: Uphold adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and hotel policies, safeguarding hotel assets through strong financial controls while performing all finance activities within policy, regulatory, and contractual framework.
- Optimize financial reporting: Oversee systems and processes to drive accuracy, efficiency, and transparency in financial reporting.
- Monitor and approve financial transactions: Oversee and authorize hotel sales, purchases, salaries, and expenses to maintain fiscal responsibility and operational efficiency.
- Cultivate a high-performing team: Drive engagement and retention through performance management, professional development, and recognition programs.
Qualifications
What It Takes to Make the Stay
To succeed in this role, the core values include:
- A passion for spreading the light and warmth of Hospitality.
- Acting with Integrity and always doing the right thing.
- Inspiring others through Leadership.
- A belief that Teamwork drives the best outcomes.
- A sense of Ownership and accountability.
- A focus on the Now, bringing urgency and discipline to every moment, knowing it can make a lasting impact.
Join an Award-Winning Workplace Culture
Become part of a global leader in hospitality that not only delivers exceptional experiences to guests but also fosters an exceptional workplace for the team members. The award-winning culture has garnered recognition on the World’s Best Workplaces list by Great Place to Work and Fortune. With a commitment to providing the best stay for every guest, it’s an opportunity to start your career or explore something new while making every stay a little more magical.
