Director of Finance – Hilton Recruitment

What you’ll do:

• Interact with internal audit on findings from audit reviews and oversee resolution of findings (MAPS)
• Manage and administer all financial operations of the hotel to include, but not limited to, asset protection, financial reporting, systems management, hotel-wide budget and forecasting, team management, and meeting participation and facilitation
• No day is the same in hospitality is the same. Do you thrive in a role that is always changing
• Ultimate responsibility for the accuracy of hotel balance sheets ensuring inputs from SSC/COE and outsourced vendor are validated locally.
• Ensure that all licenses, permits, and insurance policies are current and are in compliance with Irish law.
• Monitor all contracts and agreements and advise hotel management of the terms, conditions and benefits
• Assist and advise team heads in the interpretation and analysis of financial data, recommending courses of action to maximize hotel profitability
• Monitor and approve purchases (Birchstreet), salaries and expenses of the hotel
• You want to be part of a team that works hard, supports each other and above all has fun along the way.
• Direct and approve escalated issues experienced with shared services center and third-party service providers (outsourcing provider, auditors, state and local tax authorities, banks) to ensure consistency, quality and timeliness of information and requests
• Serve as a strategic business partner and financial advisor to hotel management and ownership, area management and corporate offices
• Oversee to ensure operations compliance with all internal controls
• Demonstrate full understanding of Management Agreement and related fee implications, seeking confirmation of terms where necessary.
• Recruiting, manage, train and develop the Finance team
• Accountable for budgets and forecasts/projections as required (Annual, Revised Annual, Monthly, and/or on Corporate/Owner’s requests) and all hotel financial reporting to team heads, hotel management, corporate office, and owners in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), USALI and Hilton guidelines

What you’ll have:

• Ability to exercise judgment in evaluating situations and in making sound decisions
• Ability to analyse large volume of complex financial information from many sources and create reports, forecasts projections
• Intermediate to advance computer proficiency
• Positive attitude.
• Leadership and organizational skills (team orientation, flexible, adaptable)
• Knowledge of business law, federal, state, and local taxes, as well as Department of Labor regulations
• Ability to analyse and interpret financial data
• Proficiency in MS Office suite applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) The management reserves the right to change/extend this statement if necessary at any point of time during her/his employment.
• Relevant degree, in business development or other relevant business field, from an academic institution
• Knowledge of the hotel property management systems
• Knowledge of insurance, employee benefits, claims and liability
• Financial and operational analytical skills (operational analysis)
• Knowledge of departmental and hotel operations
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to build relationships and influence at all levels
• Strategic thinker with the ability to formulate effective goals, objectives and priorities with a long term perspective
• Excellent grooming standards.