Hotel Accountant Job at Work Better Africa

Work Better Africa is a workforce development and workplace transformation company that stimulates effective collaboration between employers and employees to build profitable and sustainable businesses. We empower the workforce to attain high-level Productivity, Peak Performance and become Profit oriented through our bespoke training and development programmes. Our services include: Recruiting, Training, Coaching, Business Consulting and Publishing.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Hotel Accountant

Job Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time

Duties and Responsibilities


  • Ensure that the guests have best possible experience by trouble-shooting and resolving all billing-related disputes.
  • Represents the Accounts department on the daily department heads meeting with the general manager.
  • Verify recorded transactions and report irregularities to management.
  • Providing direction to the night audit team so as to ensure proper revenue reporting.
  • Reviewing all ledger details guest ledger, city ledger and deposit ledgers to validate proper payment and revenue posting.
  • Review the postings, payments, revenue and guest balance reports on a daily basis.
  • Manage all phases of Accounts Payable, Receivable and department budget.
  • Calculate and distribute wages and salaries.
  • Prepare regular reports and summaries of accounting activities.
  • Prepare financial statements and debtors' listings.
  • Follows up on any accounts within 3 days to ensure customer has received the invoice and does not have any questions.
  • Review the Accounts Receivable(A/R) Ageingreports on a daily basis.
  • Enters invoices into accounts payable system weekly after verifying a purchase order was received from ordering department head and obtaining General Manager's approval.
  • Maintains files of all contracts, insurance policies, tax reports, expenses, payroll, etc.
  • Maintaining and transferring money between bank accounts as required.
  • Performing numerical analysis of data and formulating conclusions and/or solutions.
  • Preparing financial reports and submissions to relevant government entities.
  • Forecasting cash payments and anticipating challenges arising from limited cash flow.
  • Ensuring that cash flows are adequate to allow business units to operate effectively.
  • Maintain banking relationships and merchant services for the hotel
  • Ensures all new hire paperwork, benefits, performance appraisals, disciplinary action forms and other pertinent personnel documents are filed appropriately and maintained in accordance with the company HR practices.
  • Working with executives and business heads to prepare budgets and track profit/loss performance by business unit.
  • Providing direction and training to the hotel operational team in areas related to finance, financial reports,internal controls, labour management, payroll, etc.
  • Effectively manage the accounting team through respectful communication, clear expectations, relevant training, productive coaching, regular meetings, and appropriate performance management.
  • Recommend and maintain a system of policies and procedures that impose an adequate level of control over Account Department activities.

Requirements
Education:

  • Charted Accountant (CA) Bachelor's Degree in Accounting. Additional qualifications will be added advantages.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated accounting experience, preferably in a hospitality or food and beverage environment and quality with a background that includes forecasting and budgeting.

Prerequisites:

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills with strong accounting software experience. Proficiency with MS Office (Excel / Word) and experience with PMS like Opera.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Photograph to: workbetterafrica@gmail.com using the Job Position as the subject of the email.