Staff Accountant

Compensation

Compensation Type Hourly Highgate Hotels

Located on the seam of Belltown and the retail core, the 97-room Kimpton Palladian Hotel is within walking distance of landmarks like Pike Place Market, the waterfront, and Seattle’s best new restaurants, live music venues, cafés, and boutiques. When you’re not exploring, your home base is a 1910 landmark reinvented in a masculine-chic style with luxe amenities, edgy design elements, and contemporary furnishings that reflect Belltown’s hip heritage.

You’ll also find a heralded seafood restaurant in Shaker + Spear, a speakeasy-style social lounge called Pennyroyal, and a lobby you won’t soon forget. The Palladian beckons today’s tech titans and taste makers.

The Staff Accountant is responsible for assisting the Director of Finance and Assistant Director of Finance in maintaining accurate and timely financial resporting; ensuring acceptable levels of internal control; ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations and Highgate Hotels Standard Operating Procedures; and safeguarding owners/investors assets. For this role, the emphais is placed on the management of Accounts Payable processing and General Cashier.

27.81/hr

• In addition to travel discounts at our hotels, Highgate offers competitive benefits, including three pricing tiers of medical coverage as well as Dental and Vision to full-time associates. Retirement 401k Program is open to both full-time and part- time staff who qualify.

Applications will be accepted until 3/1/26

• Monitor, prepare, and communicate financial reports in accordance with Highgate Hotels required due dates.
• Create purchase orders for recurring contract expense
• Monitor accounts payable email communications and verify invoice details and purchase orders
• Prepare a daily invoice upload package
• Prepare and process check runs, ACH payments, and wire transfers
• Reconcile vendor statements and resolve discrepancies, skipped invoices, or delivery variances
• Communicate with vendors regarding payment status, missing invoices, or billing issues
• Assist with month-end closing tasks, including accruals and AP aging reports
• Monitor/reconcile accounts to ensure timely payments and avoid late fees
• Monitor payment requirements on groups or functions and process deposits.
• Approve or decline credit requests.
• Complete collection calls on each appropriate outstanding accounts and maintain collection files on each outstanding issue.
• Handle customer inquries in a professional and timely manner, provide customers with accurate invoices, statements, and schedules.
• Process returned checks and credit card chargebacks.
• Conduct monthly credit meetings and maintain minutes (including returned checks/chargeback logs, credit trace reports, write-off, bad debt allowances, etc.)
• Collect, count, and verify daily cash envelopes
• Prepare daily bank deposits
• Reconcile cash receipts with system-generated reports
• Investigate and resolve cash discrepancies
• Prepare daily cashier summaries and reconciliation reports
• Ensure compliance with hotel cash‑handling policies and audit standards
• Provide change funds and maintain house bank
• Securely store cash, checks, and financial documents
• Update daily revenue reports both for internal distribution and corporate distribution.
• Keep management aware of any unusual operation or financial occurances and/or significant deviations.
• Reconcile invoices against ledgers or schedules to ensure accuracy of invoicing.
• Assist in the monthly close process by posting journal entries that are related to daily/monthly responsibilities.
• Ensure overall guest satisfaction by attentive listening and then immediately resolving guest issues or elevating to the Director of Finance or General Manager.
• Cross-Train in other areas within the Accounting Department including accounts receivable.
• Ability to identify root causes of issues that may affect staff or guests and provide actionable and measurable solutions to improve efficiency, overall work environment, and/or guest experience

• College courses in an associated orrelated fieldand/or related experience in an Hotel or Hospitality environment
• Must…