Financial Controller

As the Finance Administrator, you are responsible for all activities relating to the financial aspects of the hotel in compliance with the Company SOP's, including revenue control, sales ledger, processing supplier payments and banking control.,

• Daily input of Revenue to required spreadsheets/systems
• Daily reconciliation of revenues, bankings, credit cards and ledgers, ensuring any cancelation and no shows have been charged
• Review F&B Voids & No sales
• Ensure Credit Card Refunds are checked, logged and signed by AGM/BEM
• Deal and defend any chargebacks - as and when they happen
• Review guest ledger, high balance & deposit report weekly
• Ensuring control of the hotels sales ledger, ensuring that all invoices, receipts, BACS payments etc. are correctly posted to the system and debts are chased in a timely manner
• Ensure the bank reconciliation is updated every week
• Emails - to be dealt with daily and cleared as necessary
• Processing of supplier invoices - Complete weekly and ensure compliance for authorising
• Checking all travel agent commission claims with reservations and resolve any queries with the agent concerned
• Producing of any reports that may be requested by General Manager
• Act as Hotel PCI/GDPR guardian
• Completion of Hotel month end Finance pack and sending to HO.
• Responsible for the integrity and accuracy of the hotels Profit Forecast
• Building relationships with departmental heads and using your expertise to supporting with decision making
• Completing comprehensive analytical review of hotel results and providing commentary to support findings and recommendations.
• Challenge hotel teams on their views to ensure the correct and most profitable decisions are being made
• Maintaining a thorough understanding of hotel process' and operations e.g. the business mix, ensuring you really get behind the numbers
• Overseeing the production of your hotel P&L's to ensure its timely completion to expectation
• Supporting with the hotel budgeting process; ensuring the completion of accurate and professional budgets, where any variances can easily be explained.
• Supporting the hotel teams to identify strategies to drive profitability
• Maintaining and monitoring a rigorous internal controls system
• Resolving problems such as margin and overspend issues, challenging the hotels to ensure they meet agreed targets and expectations
  
  Experience in a Administer role (ideally in a hotel environment)
• Demonstrable success in processing finance transactions
• Numerate
• IT skills including Excel