Director Of Finance Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school graduate or equivalent required.
• At least five years of full-service accounting experience.
• Hospitality experience required.

Nice To Haves

• College degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily hotel accounting functions, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Income Audit, General Cashier, and other assigned activities; directly supervise the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Cashier, and Staff Accountant positions.
• Manage and execute month-end closing, ensuring journal entries, accruals, prepaid expenses, reconciliations, allocations, and supporting schedules are accurate and completed on time.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, research unusual or outstanding items, and ensure reconciling items are resolved promptly.
• Review daily revenue activity and ensure revenues, taxes, service charges, credit card activity, deposits, and other transactions are recorded and reconciled to applicable hotel systems.
• Maintain General Ledger integrity through journal entries, account analysis, reclassifications, corrections, and supporting documentation.
• Oversee Accounts Payable, ensuring invoices are approved, coded, supported, recorded, and processed according to policy and payment schedules.
• Oversee Accounts Receivable and credit activities, including billing, collections, aging review, payment application, group accounts, direct billing, and resolution of outstanding balances.
• Perform and/or review bank, credit card, cash, and merchant reconciliations; investigate discrepancies and document and resolve outstanding items.
• Maintain cash-handling controls, including oversight of house banks, deposits, petty cash, cashier activity, and other hotel cash-control procedures.
• Assist with preparing and reviewing monthly financial statements and supporting schedules to ensure results are complete, accurate, and supported.
• Assist the Director of Finance with P&L review and variance research, providing accounting detail and explanations for significant variances.
• Provide historical financial information to support forecasting, budgeting, and financial planning.
• Partner with hotel department leaders to research accounting discrepancies, correct coding issues, obtain missing documentation, and record expenses and revenues in the appropriate accounting period.
• Monitor compliance with internal controls, segregation of duties, accounting policies, brand standards, ownership requirements, and GAAP.
• Maintain organized, complete, audit-ready accounting records, including reconciliations, journal entry support, invoices, approvals, contracts, and tax documentation.
• Support internal, external, ownership, brand, and regulatory audits by preparing requested documentation and helping resolve findings promptly.
• Assist with applicable tax, license, regulatory, and financial reporting requirements and maintain supporting documentation and schedules.
• Supervise, train, develop, and direct assigned accounting team members, clearly communicating responsibilities, deadlines, and performance expectations.
• Review team members' work for accuracy, completeness, authorization, and compliance with procedures.
• Build effective working relationships with hotel operations, corporate accounting, ownership representatives, banking partners, vendors, and other business partners.
• Identify accounting discrepancies, control weaknesses, process inefficiencies, and recurring issues; recommend corrective actions and process improvements to Finance leadership.
• Protect the confidentiality and security of hotel financial, employee, guest, banking, and other sensitive information.
• Serve as a resource on hotel accounting policies, procedures, systems, and financial controls.
• Provide accounting and operational support to the Director of Finance and perform other finance-related duties consistent with the position.