Interim Finance Director

A privately owned and profitable, international hospitality business which owns a collection of prestigious hotels chains within the UK and overseas. Currently experiencing a time of great growth and change involving senior leadership changes, re-branding, restructure and extensive development of the Finance function. Due to change across the financing structure an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Luxury Hotel Financial Director to join the team on a 3-month basis.

The overarching objective of the Hotel FD is to maximise the value of the hotel through the delivery of consistent, predictable, growing, high-quality earnings balanced with an appropriate approach to risk management. This is a dual role participating as a core member of the local hotel management team on a day-to-day basis, both from a financial and commercial perspective, while acting as a critical link to the wider Finance function

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the entire Financial Statements (Balance Sheet, PL and Cashflow)
• Collaborate with the activities of the corporate centre e.g. accounts payable, compilation of the statutory accounts etc
• Ensure that appropriate internal controls are in place and consistently applied.
• Maintain accurate accounting records in accordance with UK GAAP and IFRS and interface with external audits
• Manage and help deliver the budget / forecast / strategic plans
• Be able to interpret financial data, draw insights, provide recommendations and support the execution of those plans and delivering the solutions
• Provide day-to-day commercial decision support to maximise financial performance
• Ensure tight cost control

You will have proven experience as a Finance Director capacity in a luxury hotel. Ideally the successful candidate will be ACA, ACCA OR CIMA quailed. It is essential that you be on a maximum of one weeks notice.

For more information, please submit your CV

January 22, 2014 • Tags:  • Posted in: Financial

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