Director of Finance - Le Meridien - Oakbrook
Oak Brook, IL 60523
About the Job
Offering a calm haven and chic sophistication, Le Meridien Chicago – Oakbrook is pursuing a candidate with financial expertise and extended experience as hotel Director of Finance.
Who You Are:
You are a confident and collaborative finance officer. You are hard-working, positive and thrive in compliance, strategic thinking and creating a supportive environment. You are the key to ensuring the hotel makes financially sound decisions.
What You Do:
You positively contribute to the culture of the Le Meridien Oakbrook. Within accounting you preserve and maintain hotel assets and are passionate about the coordination and oversight of hotel financial activities. You understand the needs of the varying departments, the hotel, and ownership. You are proud to implement, monitor and ensure effective policies and procedural controls throughout the hotel.
Where You Work:
Ripe with contemporary calm and artful sophistication, Le Méridien Chicago - Oakbrook Center is situated adjacent to its eponymous shopping destination in Oak Brook, Illinois. From this superb vantage point, hotel guests can access Oak Brook's most prominent attractions with ease, including Drury Lane Theatre, the Elmhurst Art Museum and downtown Chicago. Providing an inspiring setting to work and play, our guest rooms and suites feature contemporary artwork, luxurious bedding and state-of-the-art technology.
Why You’re Here:
Why do you do what you do? Passion. Pride. Life. You are passionate about making that difference. Making the difference for every internal and external guest, doing everything you can to ensure each transaction and interaction is smooth and without difficulty. You are here because the life you want is about providing exceptional service, and that is exactly what we do.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Overall financial health of the hotel.
- Analyze the financial activities of past, present, and expected operations to identify development opportunities and areas where improvement is needed.
- Provide accurate and timely financial statements and compliance.
- Record all revenues and expenses in the proper period including accruals for anticipated charges.
- Prepare or review all monthly balance sheet reports which accurately reflect assets, liabilities and equity.
- Timely and accurate recording, filing and payment of all hotel tax obligations.
- Implement and monitor effective policies and procedural controls throughout hotel in compliance with standards and guidelines.
- Oversee contracts and agreements and assist hotel management in maintaining licenses, permits, insurance, and contracts.
- Provide financial leadership and mentoring to key hotel personnel.
- Provide timely and well composed forecasts and budgets with the full involvement of hotel leadership.
- Communicate on a timely basis to the General Manager of all potential favorable or unfavorable budget or profit exposures or opportunities.
- Manages both accounts receivable and accounts payable functions to include but not limited to: processing invoices, preparing statements, making payments, collections, reconciliation, and record keeping.
- Reconciles and audits petty cash, general bank account and cash banks.
- Manages department members such as property Accountant.
- Analyze trends to reduce financial risks associated with spending decisions
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business management or a related education.
- Previous experience in a similar role in a full-service hospitality operation.
- Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office, M3 accounting software, ProfitSword, Property Management Systems, Point of Sale Systems, Payroll systems, and other finance-related platforms.
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, including complaint handling and resolution.
Physical Requirements:
Frequently sits, uses hands, reaches with arms and hands, talks or hears. Occasionally stands, walks, climbs, balances, stoops, kneels, crawls or crouches. Occasionally lifts up to 25 pounds.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
It is Company policy to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including by providing reasonable accommodations that do not constitute an undue hardship on the Company.
Source : Le Meridien - Oakbrook
