Jobs at Hilton – Hotel Accounting Analyst

Job Description:

The post holder will participate and play a part in engendering a sense of empowerment in the pursuit of first class service, supporting the delivery of Hotel Accounting strategies and the team activities on a day-to-day basis. This will require a meticulous attention to detail, the ability to understand and interpret business metrics within the Accounting arena and make recommendations where appropriate. They will also support the review of Hotel Accounting Service Level Agreements (SLA’s), assisting with the refinement and ongoing monitoring of these to ensure that agreed service delivery metrics are met or exceeded.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support internal and external audits for hotels and internal corporate departments by coordinating documentation collection, review of items collected (including from the outsourcing provider) and answering auditor requests.
• Ensure all monthly closing and reporting activities are carried out as per guidelines and deadlines
• Provide input to the delivery of the relevant metrics to support the team activities and drive improvement across the business;
• Support the Manager in evaluating the effectiveness of current processes and implementing actions to streamline the processes and maximise efficiency
• Working with the team, co-ordinate all day to day activities ensuring the successful and timely delivery of all Hotel Accounting activities
• Deliver the balance sheet reconciliation processes, ensuring unreconciled items are cleared immediately and any ageing is appropriately explained.
• Perform monthly closing and post-closing activities such as financial statement variance reviews, issues arising throughout the closing and post-close period, balance sheet reconciliations, and workpaper reviews
• Administer compliance duties and the set-up and maintenance of internal controls and SOX compliance, ensuring adherence is always achieved.
• Provide guidance and support to the business on operating best practice
• Support the Manager in the production of relevant and timely Management Information
• Book key closing journal entries and other reports/projects completed by the outsourcing provider to ensure proper GAAP accounting.
• Perform the hotel accounting processes, ensuring consistency and control

Job Requirements:

• Ability to work with limited supervision, using own initiative with ‘can-do’ approach, thriving under pressure in a fast paced environment, being able to handle multiple demands and appropriately prioritise responsibilities
• Previous experience of working within a Finance environment
• Ability to use multiple systems and understand how they link together, to provide training and support to other team members and to identify and report on issues occurring
• Ability to identify financial issues, recommend and execute mitigating actions
• Strong inter-personal skills and able to maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, managers and clients with well-developed written and verbal communication and comprehension skills
• Good technical skills and exposure to general ledger accounting and reconciliations
• Hospitality industry experience
• Good knowledge of finance modules of an ERP system such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft
• Solid understanding of accounting principles and GAAP
• Degree in Accountancy
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, critical thinking, quantitative & qualitative analytical skills and decision making skills to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and to provide recommendations for optimal solutions

Job Details:

Company: Hilton

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK

Application Deadline: N/A

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