Accounts Payable Clerk-Corporate Office Uniondale, NY

Blue Sky Hospitality Solutions•Uniondale, NY

9d•Onsite

About The Position

The Accounts Payable Clerk assists with day-to-day finance operations and maintains accounting records for the hotel's financial activities. The role includes computing, recording, collecting, analyzing, and verifying numerical data, generating bills, and collecting revenue owed to the hotel accurately and on time in accordance with accounting policies and procedures. The clerk also supports the Finance Manager and Financial Controller with financial operations, reporting, reconciliations, audits, and related duties.

Requirements

Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
Ability to compile facts and figures.
Command of written and spoken English.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Excel and Word.
One to two years of work experience, including previous accounting office experience or experience in hotel or hospitality-related finance and accounting.

Nice To Haves

High school graduation, a Master of Commerce, or a Bachelor of Science in Accounting is preferred.
Experience with property management or finance systems such as Opera, Roommaster, Protel, Visual One, Delphi, Sun Finance, Oracle Finance, or SAP.

Responsibilities

Assist with managing revenues received and dispersed, including accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, audits, and General Ledger reporting.
Assist with monthly financial statement analysis and report variances to the relevant department heads.
Assist with financial and tax audits, tax returns, and corporate reporting requirements.
Support the Financial Controller with systems administration, General Ledger reconciliations, budget preparations, inventories, monthly closings, and profit-and-loss responsibilities.
Assist the Financial Controller with the year-end audit process.
Review and approve reconciliation and audit work papers.
Post city ledger payments in the property management system, reconcile city ledger accounts, and prepare bills for those accounts.
Follow up on billing and credit collection documentation and inform the Controller of potentially uncollected accounts.
Bill credit cards and maintain accurate, legible credit card logs.
Prepare credit card authorizations for American Express, Visa, MasterCard, Diners, and other cards, and send them to vendors.
Verify that credit card service charges are billed correctly for all credit card transactions.
Assist with reimbursable invoicing and reconciling open account status items.
Conduct rotating monthly inventory audits and enter final inventory totals into a spreadsheet.
Complete other job-related duties as assigned by the Financial Controller.