Director of Finance

Overview

POSITION OBJECTIVE
Plan, direct and manage the provision of accurate, timely and objective financial data from which informed management decisions can be made. Recommend remedial action when and where necessary. Safeguard owner assets by creating and maintaining sound internal control systems. Participate in total hotel management as a member of the Executive Committee. This position is performed on-site at the hotel.

• Direct preparation of annual budgets and monthly forecasts; establish or recommend to management major economic objectives and policies for the hotel.
• Support Managing Director and hotel financial goals by direct preparation of monthly and annual reports summarizing and forecasting the hotel’s revenues, expenses, and earnings based on past, present and expected operations.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and procedures and all applicable laws.
• Negotiate and monitor contracts with hotel’s vendors.
• Ensure the collection and payment of applicable local, state and federal taxes.
• Advise management of desirable operational adjustments due to tax code revisions.
• Arrange for audits of hotel’s accounts.
• Prepare reports required by regulatory agencies.
• Manage, coach and develop the finance team, purchasing and IT departments.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
• Four to six years related experience, including at least four years of supervisory experience.
• Must be able to speak, read, write and understand the primary languages used in the workplace.
• Must be able to read and write to facilitate the communication process.
• Requires good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Most tasks are performed in a team environment with the employee acting as a team leader. There is minimal direct supervision.
• Must be able to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or government regulations.
• Must be able to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Must be able to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and ownership.
• Must be able to apply mathematical operations to tasks such as frequency distribution, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
• Must be able to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• May be required to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

• Most work tasks are performed indoors. Temperature is moderate and controlled by hotel environmental systems.
• Must be able to sit at a desk for up to 5 hours per day. Walking and standing are required the rest of the working day. This includes traveling to and from meetings. Length of time of these tasks may vary from day to day and task to task.
• Must be able to exert well-paced ability to maneuver between functions occurring simultaneously.
• Must be able to exert well-paced ability to reach other departments of the hotel on a timely basis.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 lbs. occasionally.
• Requires grasping, writing, standing, sitting, walking, repetitive motions, listening and hearing ability and visual acuity.
• Talking and hearing occur continuously in the process of communicating with guests, supervisors and other employees.
• Vision occurs continuously with the most common visual functions being those of near vision and depth perception.
• Must have finger dexterity to operate office equipment such as computers, printers, 10-key adding machine, electric typewriter, multi-line touch tone phone, filing cabinets, FAX machines, photocopiers, dolly and other office equipment as needed.

• Must be able to work effectively in a stressful environment, communicate with others, effectively deal with customers and accept constructive criticism from supervisors.
• Must be able to change activity frequently and cope with interruptions.