Hotel Accountant at Bolton White Group

Bolton White Group is a hospitality brands providing exceptional services across all our business units. Our team is dedicated to providing a wide range of clients with world-class services. Bolton White Group is well regarded for its focus on international best practices in all aspects of its business.

Bolton White Group is an independent entrepreneurial-driven institution offering a complete range of hospitality services with a focus on providing a ‘home away from home’ experience to our clients. By choosing to join Bolton White Group you have assumed your share of the responsibility for maintaining the high principles and standards to which we are dedicated.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Hotel Accountant

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.
• Manage all phases ofAccounts Payable, Receivable and departmentbudget.
• Calculate and distribute wages and salaries.
• Prepare regular reports and summaries of accounting activities.
• Preparefinancial statementsand debtors' listings.
• Verify recorded transactions and report irregularities to management.
• Providing direction to thenight auditteam so as to ensure proper revenue reporting.
• Reviewing allledgerdetails guest ledger,city ledgerand deposit ledgers to validate proper payment and revenueposting.
• Review the postings, payments, revenue and guestbalancereports on a daily basis.
• Follows up on any accounts within 3 days to ensure customer has received the invoice and does not have any questions.
• Review theAccounts Receivable(A/R)Ageingreports on a daily basis.
• Enters invoices intoaccounts payablesystem weekly after verifying apurchase orderwas received from ordering department head and obtaining General Manager's approval.
• 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
• Maintains files of all contracts, insurance policies, tax reports,expenses,payroll, etc.
• Maintaining and transferring money between bank accounts as required.
• Performing numericalanalysisof data and formulating conclusions and/or solutions.
• Preparing financial reports and submissions to relevant government entities.
• 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/lossperformance 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, productivecoaching, 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.

Educational Qualifications and Experience

• Charted Accountant (CA) Bachelor's Degree in Accounting. Additional qualifications will be added advantages.
• Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated accounting experience, preferably in ahospitalityor food and beverage environment and quality with a background that includes forecasting andbudgeting.

Prerequisites:

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

Application Closing Date
30th September, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Photograph to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.