Financial Accountant at voco Dubai The Palm

InterContinental Hotels Group; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospitality group in the United Arab Emirates is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee financial reporting and internal audits. The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of experience in related roles and a degree in accounting or finance. Key responsibilities include preparing financial statements and guiding accounting staff. This position offers competitive benefits and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Employee room discounts

Career development opportunities

Great work culture

Qualifications

• 5 years related experience including at least 2 years in same capacity.
• Ability to meet deadlines and drive for results.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly statements and analyze variances.
• Respond to financial inquiries by interpreting data.
• Implement internal audit procedures within the hotel.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Microsoft Office proficiency

Problem solving

Organizational skills

Team-player mentality

Education

Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration

Job description

About Us

Welcome to voco.

Drawing on our years of experience in delivering True Hospitality, voco Hotels, gives people a different choice. Hotels that are reliable enough to depend on, but different enough to be fun. Our new family of hotels are connected by their individual characters that make memorable travel dependable. Unstuffy hotels, where people feel comfortable to relax, and just get on with relaxing. Hotels that stand out from the crowd.

Becoming part of the family, everyone’s a host…

Every great stay starts with a great host, who are the beating heart of our hotels. Our teams are there when people need them but, give them space to relax. It’s these thoughtful touches that give our service the balance guests adore: natural and easy-going but, also friendly without being over the top.

voco Dubai Palm The Palm is conveniently located on the trunk of the manmade island while being part of the newly launched “Palm West Beach”, a trendy and vibrant spot with an array of exceptional dining concepts.

Your day to day

• Prepare monthly statements by collecting data; analysing and investigating variances; summarizing data, information, and trends.
• Prepare and review the Balance Sheet reconciliation
• Implement and drive the internal audit procedures within the hotel
• Respond to financial inquiries by gathering, analysing, summarizing, and interpreting data.
• Provide financial advice by studying operational issues; applying financial principles and practices; developing recommendations.
• Prepare and submit the Rolling Forecast, Month end Financial data through EFPM to EMEA as per the due dates.
• To prepare and submit the monthly financial report for Ownco.
• To guide all the accounts staff on accounting standards and procedures.
• To prepare all monthly financial reports (cost control, bank reconciliation, etc.), cash reports and miscellaneous reports.
• To spot check inventory counts.
• To prepare bank reconciliation statements. Prepare the Balance Sheet.
• Make accruals of the Open Purchase Order Report from MC system before the month end.
• Update job knowledge by keeping current with financial regulations and IHG's policies and procedures.
• To understand and strictly adhere to the Rules & Regulations established in the Employees’ Code of Conduct and the Hotel’s policy on Fire, Hygiene, Health and Safety.
• To promote efficiency, confidence, courtesy and an extremely high standard of social skills.
• To generally promote and ensure good inter-departmental relations.
• Assist Finance and Business support Manager for presentation and chair meetings in his absence

What we need from you

• 5 years related experience including at least 2 years in same capacity
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to communicate
• Experience & ability to develop leading strategies to drive for best results.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• High level of common sense and high skill of problem solving, reasoning, organizational and decision making
• Drive for results to outperform competition
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Degree from a university in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or related field.
• A naturally outgoing and friendly personality with a passion for service excellence to consistently deliver and demonstrate voco™ service standards
• A true “team-player” mentality and flexible attitude towards a diverse set of tasks

What we offer

We’ll reward all your hard work with great salary and benefits – in addition to career development, employee room discounts and great work culture. Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics.

As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve -visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us.

At IHG, we are committed to developing our team and managing our talent and would encourage internal as well as external candidates to apply for any of our vacancies.

We are an equal opportunities employer.