Director of Hotel Accounting San Luis Resort

Overview

The Director of Hotel Accounting will oversee and perform the basic bookkeeping for the Galveston properties from recording journal entries to the timely and accurate preparation of the financial statements. Ensure the assets are safeguarded and minimum recording keeping requirements are established and maintained. The Director of Hotel Accounting will assist in the supervision of the accounts payable function, general cashier and payroll function for those entities. The Direcdtor of Hotel Accounting will also reconcile intercompany accounts and supervise the reconcilation of other balance sheet accounts.

Responsibilities

Essential:

• Ensure compliance of all policies and Code of Conduct as specified in the Associate Handbook.
• Maximize productivity, identify problem areas and assist in finding and implementing solutions.
• Analyze financial data and operations in order to advise management and to assist in achieving and maintaining the hotel’s financial objectives.
• Review and approve the income audit daily and ensure that critical operational procedures are accomplished on a daily basis to include credit card reconciliation and transmission, daily deposits, cash handling, disbursements, inventories, hotel assets, payroll and records retention.
• Monitor the accurate production of the hotel daily revenue report.
• Hire, train, supervise and develop staff; including coaching, counseling and discipline.
• Ensure compliance with contracts, legal agreements and the proper execution of all operational taxes. This includes analysis of franchise fees and group/event contracts.
• Ensure that all balance sheet accounts, including bank reconciliations are properly reconciled per Landry’s standards on a timely basis.
• Monitor and/or prepare financial reports in accordance with Landry’s requirements meeting various due dates and deadlines, i.e.
  
  

Daily

Review cash reports (over & short)

Review Income Journal

Review Daily Revenue Report

Review Labor Report

Weekly

Review Receivables Reports

Monthly

Complete Revenue Results Reporting

Complete Financial Statements

Complete Balance Sheet Reconciliations

Complete Forecasting

Annually

Complete Budgets

Marginal

• Attend meetings/training as required by management.
• Perform other duties as requested by management.
  
  

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• A minimum of 4 years of progressive experience in hotel accounting or related field; or a
  
  

4-year college degree with an accounting/finance concentration and a minimum of 2 years of related progressive experience; or a 2-year college degree and a minimum of 4 years of related progressive experience.

Physical Requirements

• Long hours sometimes required.
• Sedentary work - exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
  
  

Mental Requirements

• Must be able to convey information and ideas clearly.
• Must be able to multi task.
• Must be effective in handling problems in the workplace, including anticipating, preventing, identifying and solving problems as necessary.
• Must have the ability to assimilate complex information, data, etc., from disparate sources and consider, adjust or modify to meet the constraints of the particular need.
• Must be effective at listening to, understanding, and clarifying the concerns and issues raised by co-workers and guests.
• Must be able to work with, understand and interpret financial information, hotel operations data, and basic arithmetic functions.
• Must be able to prioritize regional, or hotel, or departmental functions in order to meet all deadlines.