We are pleased to announce that we are looking for Accounting Manager CANDIDATES who will work with us in our new opening Intercontinental Hotel Baku.

What’s the job?

As Accounting Manager you’ll forecast the financial operations of the hotel – while managing hotel assets – and ensuring a centralised accounting environment.

Your day-to-day

People:

• Manage everyday activities, plan and assign work ensuring you always have the right staffing numbers
• Develop your team and improve their performance through coaching and feedback, and create performance and development goals recognise good performance
• Train your team to make sure they deliver with compliance, to our standards and have the tools they need to work efficiently
• Recommend or initiate any HR elated actions where needed
• Direct the team on how decision-making impacts profits
• Drive a great working environment for teams to thrive – connect departments to create sense of one team

Financial:

• Use financial analysis, data trends and market information to anticipate needs, identify operating/financial issues, and recommend actions to maximise financial return
• Create the annual operating budget for the property and provide analytical support during budget reviews to identify cost saving and productivity opportunities for department heads
• Ensure all accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis and oversee the process of credit extension and collection of overdue accounts
• Review rates and recommend rate strategy to the General Manager; participate in sales strategy meetings
• Manage accounts payable to balance cash flow and reputation with suppliers
• Analyse ROI for capital projects prior to committing funds and, upon completion, determine if anticipated results were achieved
•  Maximise cash flow performance of the hotel through controls on inventory (avoid excessive supply), credit and collection, disbursements, deposits and remittances

Responsible Business:

• Implement and maintain acceptable accounting practices as required by company policy and procedures
• Ensure financial control procedures and systems are ethical and legal
• Participate in local recognised professional and industry organisations
• Manage hotel contracts (example: vendor leases and/or service contracts)
• Other ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done

Guest Experience:

• Help guests – you’ll be happy to help if someone needs assistance with a request or complaint
• Ensure accounting practices, support the guest experience through payment options (e.g. credit card systems, room charges), inventory controls and financial dispute resolution

Accountabilities:

• This is the top Accounting job in a large, luxury or resort hotel. Typically supervises clerical accounting employees in a full range of functions such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit/Collections, Purchasing, Audit, Payroll, and/or Accounting Operations.

What we need from you:

• Bachelor’s degree / higher education qualification / equivalent in Accounting and Finance
• 4-8 years’ experience in hotel accounting or audit with at least one year in an Assistant Controller or similar supervisory role, or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
• Knowledge of accounting management duties e.g. negotiating hotel space and tenant leases; processing payroll; performing asset management duties; providing business projections, displacement analysis, preparing government reports, filing tax returns etc.
• Professional accounting or finance designation or certification preferred
• Must speak English and local language(s). Other languages preferred

Candidates are requested to note the “expected salary” and send their CVs to hr@icbaku.com
Please indicate the name of the position (Accounting Manager) you are applying for in the subject line of the email.