Finance Manager Hotel Operations

Company Description

We are Accor.  We are a worldwide Augmented Hospitality leader. We are more than 230,000 hospitality experts placing people at the heart of what we do, creating new connections & emotions for our guests, nurturing real passion for service and achievement beyond limits.

We’re so much more than hotels — we’re creating innovative lifestyle experiences , whether you live, work or play. Blaze your own trail from 40+ hotel brands, restaurants, nightclubs, spas, co-working spaces, and tech start-ups .

Building on the strength of our teams and our strong holistic ecosystem of brands & solutions, we are breaking new ground to shape the hospitality of tomorrow and inspire new ways to experience the world.

About The Role :

The position is responsible for providing inputs on Financial and regulatory parameters to ‘Director Finance Hotel Operations’ to enable him take key financial decisions. The position is also responsible for managing the financial reporting process for India and South Asia along with preparation and dissemination of Hotel KPIs, managing the hotel budgeting process, and assisting the Corporate leadership in Business analysis of the hotels.

Enabling Senior Management to make data-backed business decisions by providing monthly inputs on Key Financial indicators.

Ensuring forecast accuracy is within acceptable norms & seeking reasons for variances, tracking no significant variances in long-term forecasting trends.

Ensuring hotels are compliant with various major regulatory.Develop and circulate memo /notes to guide hotels. Ensuring compliance through reviews

Resolution of technical queries on accounting at hotels raised by owners’ Statutory / Internal Auditors when referred by the management.

Managing hotel finance reporting by coordinating closely with hotel Finance Heads to ensure timely month-end closures, accurate month-end uploads through review of uploads and guiding hotels in case of any errors. The role also involves guiding hotels to ensure repetitive issues in monthly closing are not repeated.

Provide desired information; resolve queries and coordinate with the Regional Office.

Providing hotels with key presentation decks to be used for their – Owner's review & mid-year review.

Qualifications

Chartered Accountant / MBA with 5-6 years of experience in Hospitality Accounting System

Expert Knowledge of Indian Accounting Standards, USALI Direct & Indirect Taxes, data analysis, MIS etc.

Knowledge of Macros / VBAs

Proficient in MS Excel & PowerPoint

Additional Information

Adaptive to organization changes and needs. Flexible and able to embrace and respond to change effectively.

Self-motivated, energetic, independent; ready to do things herself/himself, which could not be done otherwise; Self-starter and ready to go extra mile to deliver the output. Ability to work independently and has good initiative under dynamic environment.

Analytical ability.

Good interpersonal & team working skills with ability to communicate with all levels of employees.

Good presentation and influencing skills – both lateral and vertical.

Ability to plan in a structured manner along with team players and deliver as per agreed timelines.

Quick understanding of problems and post detailed analysis & consultation, to come up with solutions