Financial Controller

Excellent opportunity to join a newly created Leisure business based at their prestigious Hotel in South Manchester. Reporting to the General Manager you will take full financial responsibility for the business.

This is a self-accounting role, responsible for ensuring that the hotel control, accounting systems and procedures are maintained in line with hotel requirements. To provide financial information and support to the General Manager to manage both costs & profitability in line with budget requirements, ensuring maximum profitability at all times for the Hotel.

Responsibilities
· To ensure that all operational controls are implemented within the hotel, in conjunction with the Operations Manager.
· To ensure that all HOD's adhere to control procedures, via either weekly, or spot checks.
· To ensure that the structure & allocated responsibilities of the Accounts Department is conducive to the Hotel's business & accounting requirements.
· To have a full understanding of the Front Office System and the reports produced by this department.
· To ensure that all costs are controlled within the hotel to the level of budget or business achievable.
· To ensure that all purchasing within the hotel is carried out via purchase order system, which are signed as authorised by both Senior Financial Controller and General Manager.
· To produce three month forecast on a weekly basis, in conjunction with Senior Management, ensuring that profit is maximised at all times.
· In liaison with HOD's & the HR Manager, to ensure that wage costs are being controlled in line with budget requirements, or business achievable.
· To ensure that Hotel accounts (P & L & Balance Sheet) are produced each period end, and these are accurate and in accordance with deadlines.
· To ensure that Night Auditors are fully trained in all revenue and report producing procedures.
· To guide and support all HOD's to produce their yearly budgets.
· Ensure that the yearly budget is produced accurately in accordance with the deadline.
· To ensure good ongoing communication with all HODs, and provide them with the relevant financial support and guidance to enable them to run their departments successfully.
· To ensure that all contracts within the Hotel are reviewed prior to renewal to ensure that the best price is gained.
· To ensure that all insurance claims are collated within the Accounts Department, and a copy retained at the Hotel, prior to sending to the Broker.
· To support and advise the General Manager in all areas of finance, to enable him/her to maximise on profitability of the business at all times.
· To ensure that all financial deadlines are met within the hotel at all times.
· Train and develop all finance staff, to ensure that they can competently carry out their responsibilities.

Responsibilities specific to ensure accuracy & achieve deadlines to produce period end accounts:
1. Daily Revenue Spreadsheet checked to ensure that all statistics and revenue produced is accurate.
2. To ensure daily that the Hotels ledgers balance e.g. Guest Ledger, Sales Ledger, Deposit Ledger etc.
3. To ensure that daily banking is accurate and balances to business achieved.
4. Cash Book to be uploaded and matched accurately.
5. Purchase Ledger invoices to be entered onto the system regularly, to ensure that all suppliers get paid on time via the cash required report.
6. All prepayments to be checked each period end to ensure nothing has been missed.
7. All invoice accruals for period end to be supported by a purchase order that is signed as authorised by both Senior Financial Controller and General Manager.
8. All other accruals should be within budget levels within the line by line budgeted costs (e.g. maintenance provisions, personnel provisions, sales provisions, glassware provisions, bad debts, and bank charges). It is always a good idea to use budget when doing this area of accounts.
9. All energy readings should be obtained each period end to ensure accurate calculations for accruals within this area.
10. All stock sheets should be calculated accurately, ensuring all unit pricing has been updated.
11. Wage accruals, training and holiday journals, to be obtained and posted.
12. Sales, Deposit and Guest Ledgers to be reconciled and copy retained in period end file.
13. Cash book/uncleared statement items to be reconciled to bank statement total
14. All balance sheet codes checked to ensure that all balances and all reversing journals have been reversed from previous period, or that the opening balance can be justified as non reversing.
15. Period End Checklist to be completed.
16. Period end accounts to be reviewed with General Manager
17. Debtors status report should be completed.
18. VAT reconciliation spreadsheet should be completed.
19. After accounts review Management Accounts to be completed.

The successful applicant must have experience working within the Leisure sector as a senior finance professional. Ideally ACCA/CIMA Qualified with previous experience managing a small finance team. In return you will receive a competitive basic pay, bonus, pension, free access to the leisure facilities and discounted stay.

Please forward your CV to Martin ASAP should you match the above criteria. Sellick Partnership is a leading north west finance recruiter and proud to be listed in the north west insider growth 200 list.