Our client is a group of hotels. They are currently seeking a skilled Financial Planning and Analysis Accountant to manage and enhance the financial operations across the hotels and wider group. This is a key role offering the opportunity to drive and improve financial performance and ensure compliance with industry standards.

This is a hybrid role.

Responsibilities:

• Consolidate monthly financial results for all hotels
• Challenge information given in the monthly forecast submitted by the hotel and ensure hotels take the necessary action to implement recommendations from this review.
• Consolidate monthly financial forecasts for all hotels
• Review and present monthly management accounts, including detailed commentary on variances and performance
• Coordinate completion of Hotels monthly board pack
• Review the annual hotels budget and make recommendations for improving returns and reducing costs
• Review and match capex spend with project
• Review capex tracker and updates on monthly basis from hotels
• Finalise forecast with GMs and Cluster team
• Lead P&L review meetings and attend Business Review meetings
• Attend weekly business strategy meetings including revenue meetings
• Driving improvements to accuracy and consistency of financial reporting across the group and improving the internal control environment
• Support the creation of business cases for new projects, expansions, and investments
• Identify opportunities to enhance profitability and implement cost efficiencies across the Group
• Develop and provide financial insights, recommendations, and analysis to support the company's strategic direction and decision-making.
• Responsible for streamlining the month end close process to ensure the full close is completed consistently by working day 5 each month
• Use segment analysis to provide insight and projections, as well as harnessing analytics software e.g. PMS such as Infor

Requirements:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent) with at least five years of post-qualification experience, preferably in the hospitality or retail sector.
• Good understanding of hospitality commercial analysis and statistics
• Proven experience in a senior finance role, managing multi-site entities.
• Demonstrable experience of building complex reports in Excel.
• Experience of working with large data sets.
• Experience of developing and completing project analysis
• Experience presenting analysis and driving actions from insights
• Proficiency in financial systems (e.g., Netsuite Fairmas, Power BI) and advanced Excel skills.
• Attention to detail, taking ownership for accuracy of output
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise work effectively
• Strong communication and presentation skills (verbal, listening, writing)
• Proven experience in a senior finance role, managing multi-site entities.
• Excellent understanding of financial modelling, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Experience of creating, recording, maintaining controls and governance eg P2P (procure to pay), R2R (record to report) and O2C (order to cash)