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Assistant Financial Controller

With access to the Dalata Academy, you'll have the opportunity to enhance your skills through comprehensive training courses designed to support your growth.

This position provides an excellent chance to collaborate with experienced team members in a nurturing environment. As a leader, you will inspire your team to create memorable guest experiences, drive performance, and foster a strong culture of teamwork. If you are passionate about hospitality and eager to advance your career, we invite you to seek a career at Dalata Hotel Group!

As the Assistant Financial Controller, you will help ensure the efficient operation of the hotel’s finance function. Reporting to the Cluster Financial Controller, General Manager, and other departments to achieve business objectives.

Benefits

• Free employee meals on duty
• 50% Off FB in all properties
• €/£60 employee rate on rooms for all Dalata owned hotels
• 30% off the Friends Family rate
• Extra AL day for every year worked (5 days to a maximum of 5 days)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme/Transport Schemes
• Pension access (Ask your HR Manager for local pension information)
• Development Opportunities through our Dalata Academy to support your career journey

Your Responsibilities:

Commercial Focus

• Reviewing costs and implementing processes where savings can be made.
• Work closely with other hotel departments to ensure understanding of KPIs.
• Review margins and highlight where improvements can be made.
• Preparation and review weekly revenue and payroll forecasts
• A prominent leading involvement in the month-end process.
• Champion weekly/daily meetings and interactions with Heads of Department.

People Focus

• Support and become a key advisor to both the Cluster Financial Controller and the General Manager.
• Assist in writing and implementing training plans and courses for non-financial managers within the hotel.
• Payroll efficiency - ensure manning levels are sufficient to maximise revenue and guest experience whilst minimising expenditure.
• In conjunction with the Cluster Financial Controller, help to gain a better understanding of financial issues.
• Ensure they are approachable and build relationships with the other Heads of Department and staff within the hotel.
• Compliance - Ensure all legal, statutory and company HR regulations and policies are followed to safeguard the team, our owners and the company.

Income Audit Banking

• Completing income audit daily, reconciling cash and credit cards and investigating all variances thoroughly and efficiently.
• Ensuring all sales are recorded accurately, and income metrics are tracked and analysed so as to promote action.
• Completing the bank reconciliation daily.
• Ensuring company cash handling procedures are adhered to always; promoting a culture of control.
• Ensuring all miscellaneous charges, allowances etc. have sufficient back up and information and are signed by the relevant senior manager

Accounts Receivable

• Ensuring accurate invoices are sent out to debtors for payment, in accordance with agreed credit terms.
• Liaising with both front office and reservations with regards any discrepancies.
• Ensuring allocation of payments are as per remittances received at the point of payment
• Monitoring debtors on a weekly basis, and ensuring payments are chased in a timely and professional manner.
• Ensuring customer statements are sent out weekly / monthly as required.
• Submitting detailed aged debt reports on a weekly basis.
• Insuring that credits checks performed on accounts at least every six months and adjusting credit levels based on any risk identified.

Accounts Payable

• Ensuring Procure Wizard is constantly maintained from finance perspective, with all queries followed up in a timely manner.
• Maintaining local PO register; matching invoices against PO’s and delivery dockets and posting to Sage, ensuring Dalata nominal standardisation is adhered to.
• Preparing month end creditors reconciliation; ensuring all creditor accounts are up to dat. Following up any queries with suppliers in a timely manner.
• Preparing monthly payment runs, ensuring Dalata payment terms are adhered to.

Controls and Compliance

• Ensuring all financial controls and procedures across the hotel are robust, sustainable, maintained and updated.
• Internal Audit Reports and agree corrective actions.
• Champion the use of technology and more effective and efficient ways of doing business.

Month End

• Prepare the month-end lead schedule.
• Reconcile balance sheet control accounts, including accruals and prepayments.
• Income Audit management to ensure accuracy, consistency and completeness.
• Engage with the Shared Service Centre and utilise technology to its best purpose.
• Manage the collection of debts on a timely basis.

Requirements:

• We are looking for an ambitious, confident, and professional individual with strong communication, organisational and analytical skills.
• The ideal candidate will demonstrate accounting experience, preferably in a hospitality, food beverage environment or within the retail sector.
• The ideal candidate will be a qualified or part-qualified accountant. (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or other equivalent qualification)
• Strong Internal Control Awareness and knowledge of accounting principles and procedures

About Us

Dalata Hotel Group – We bring the heart of hospitality to every hotel we own and operate. We see our growth and expansion plans as a way of spreading our unique way of caring for our guests further around the world, bringing better experiences to more people. Currently, the Dalata difference can be felt at each of our hotels in Ireland, the UK, Germany the Netherlands, and we’ll keep expanding this further, focusing on key UK cities, Dublin and Continental Europe.

Helping our people to grow and develop their careers is vitally important to us and is one of our highest priorities. We have many exciting and unique internal development programmes, each crafted to make sure our employees get the learning they need to be able to take the next step in their careers.

Dalata Hotel Group is an Inclusive Employer. We actively encourage people from all backgrounds and abilities to apply to be part of our team. However, we understand everyone's needs are different; therefore, if you require any accommodations with this application process, please highlight your needs when you are completing your application process.

At Clayton Hotel Chiswick, everything we do is a little more personal.

Whether that’s getting to know you a little more or in the small gestures that make your stay that bit more memorable. We’re always dedicated to experiences that are all about you. Located on the Chiswick High Road, it’s a place that has everything from food, culture and entertainment. If you want to see even more of London, we’re conveniently located just by Gunnersbury Underground Station which connects you across the city. Marrying contemporary design with stylish interiors, our 4-star hotel offers 11 sophisticated conference spaces, all flooded with natural daylight and fully accessible. We are just 20-minutes to London Heathrow, via the M4 motorway, and 20-minutes into central London.