Director of Finance

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

Picture yourself brightening someone’s day. When you join our Hotels team, that’s exactly what you’ll do every time you come to work! You are responsible for the overall management of the hotel’s accounting records and financial reports, ensuring compliance with company, owner, statutory, and fiscal requirements and timetables. As a Director of Finance, you’re not just overseeing all hotel financial operations – you’re spreading the light and warmth of hospitality by delivering memorable experiences that make the stay for every guest.

As the Director of Finance, you will be responsible for performing the following tasks to the highest standards:

Financial Accounting & Control: Best practice financial accounting processes in a robust control environment

• Overall management of the accounting records and financial reports of the hotel ensuring compliance with company, owner, statutory and fiscal requirements and timetables.

• Where applicable the above must include the accounts for Hilton International’s branch or subsidiary.

• Ensure that the balance sheet is a fair reflection of the assets and liabilities of the hotel. The balance sheet must be regularly reviewed, and reconciliations performed of all accounts.

• Ensure compliance with the Management agreement with Hilton International, and any Owner / Lease agreement.

• Maintain a focused system of internal controls, which will provide an effective and efficient control over the hotel assets, liabilities, revenue and costs, ensuring compliance with company policy.

• Maintain control over the hotel’s assets, liabilities, income and expenditure on behalf of both the Operator and Owner and provide management, leadership and accountability for the financial performance of the hotel.

• Ensure legal and tax compliance and that adequate insurance cover is maintained managing the pension scheme, where applicable, ensuring that adequate accounting, actuarial and legal controls are in place.

• Ensure valid permits and licenses have been obtained for such matters as importation, currency transfers and hotel operations (bars, clubs, casinos etc.).

• Take responsibility for the safekeeping and updating of all leases and contracts, which may affect the financial status of the hotel.

• Liaise and co-operate with both Internal and External Audit, ensuring that an effective programme of in-hotel audit is in place and that corrective action is promptly taken where required.

• Give particular emphasis to ensuring that all revenue is captured, making use of a monthly control checklist and conduct interim self-audits as required.

• Develop best practice financial accounting and control procedures, with continuous review and development with the aim of maximizing both impact and efficiency.

Management Reporting: Focused, innovative and balanced reporting that stimulates management action

• Develop high quality management information and performance measurement that is timely and accurate. Reporting should be thought provoking and action oriented.

• Implement reporting that incorporates benchmarking, identification and measurement of key performance indicators, and use of the balanced scorecard. Reporting should not only look to historical performance within the hotel, but also outward and forward.

• Ensure corporate reporting is timely and accurate, internally consistent and that, inter alia, Datalink report, Pro-plant system, management reports, trends of operation reports, incremental conversion reports, profit and loss statements, balance sheets and cash flow reports reconcile to the trial balance.  Maintain proof of such reconciliations which are conducted each month. https://efet.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/jobs/preview/208785