POSITION PURPOSE

At Warwick Hotels & Resorts, we offer our Colleagues and Leaders exciting career paths and engaging work environments in hotels of unrivaled presence. As Regional Controller, you will be responsible for the full financial management and oversight of daily hotel operations, creating, maintaining, and forecasting budgets for daily operations, cap-ex, and other special projects. Must have the ability to analyze financial data, prepare financial reports, and simultaneously manage several projects while maintaining deadlines.

Regional Overview: This role is based out of Warwick Denver or Warwick New York but will be required to travel to all Warwick US locations.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Main Function:

• Directing all aspects of accounting operations, overseeing all transactions related to the general ledger, receivables, payables, payroll and financial reporting. 
• Analyzing financial outcomes with respect to profits, trends, costs and compliance with budgets. Issue regular status and other reports to senior management.

 Developing and coordinating all relationships with lending/financial institutions.

• Developing and maintaining all necessary accounting policies and systems, including general ledger and financial reporting. Ensuring that records are maintained in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Assisting senior management in financial planning and results management. 
• Work with other team members to understand revenue streams, analyze expenses and management of flow-through and define appropriate reports for tracking. Identify areas of opportunities for improving cash flow and tracking of budget and inventories.
• Coordinating, preparing and reviewing monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for all US Hotels.
• Coordinating and/or preparing tax schedules, returns and information.
• Coordinate, schedule, and monitor the auditing process for all hotels. 
• Coordinating with Purchasing Managers to manage all vendors to get the best pricing.
•  Managing all tax planning and compliance with all required federal, state, local, payroll, property and other applicable taxes.
• Managing cash flow.
• Other finance and administrative duties as required.
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Other Function:

• Uses all the Financial tools – P&L Statements, Budget and Forecasting to evaluated the performance of all hotels and make the necessary recommendation to make necessary changes in order to meet or exceed annual revenue goals.
• Work with call hotels to ensure compliance audits.
• Review and updates all compliance requirement for hotel accounting
• Review compliance of all related procurement programs

Manpower Function

• Identify and develop talent within Accounting teams and develop strategies to attract new talent
• Constant Contact with all Controllers at all hotels and ensure a smooth operation and timely submission of all financial reports including payroll reports.
• Participates in the hiring of Hotel Controllers and Senior Accounting Managers.

Other:

Regular attendance in conformance with the standards, which may be established from time to time, is essential to the successful performance of this position. Employees with irregular attendance will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

Due to the cyclical nature of the hospitality industry, employees may be required to work varying schedules to reflect the business needs of the hotel. In addition, attendance at all scheduled training sessions and meetings is required.

Upon employment, all employees are required to fully comply with hotel rules and regulations for the safe and effective operation of the hotel’s facilities. Employees who violate hotel rules and regulations will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

SPECIFIC JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that he or she can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment with fluctuating priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to work without direct supervision, and efficiently manage tasks and time.

Physical Demands

QUALIFICATION STANDARDS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business. CPA and/or CMA preferred but not required.

Experience

7-10 plus years of managerial accounting and financial management experience.

 Experience working in hotel accounting is strongly preferred.

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Licenses or Certificates

Not applicable.

Grooming

All employees must maintain a neat, clean and well-groomed appearance per Warwick Denver Hotel standards.

This job description is not an exclusive or exhaustive list of all job functions that an employee in this position may be asked to perform from time to time.