Finance Controller

As the Financial Controller, you will oversee all financial operations, ensuring compliance, efficiency, and strategic support to both the Managing Director and General Manager. Your role includes overseeing budgeting, financial reporting, revenue management, taxation, audits, HMS systems accuracy, and providing financial advice to department heads.

You will be accountable for risk mitigation, financial health, and aligning finance strategy with hotel operations.

Financial Systems & Reporting

Ensure the financial reports are prepared and made available on time

To make sure the financial statements represent the actual financial position and performance

Organize together with the accounting team to produce the accounts timeously and in the required format

Understands key operational focus of the business and identifies and meets reporting requirements

To ensure compliance with established accounting principles and standards

Collaboration & Coordination

Develops & maintains strong relationships with fellow management team to ensure positive and powerful company culture and sense of purposefulness.

Attends these meetings and contributes significantly.

Compliance with Accounting Standards

Collaborate and take Inputs and feedback from auditors, on the accuracy of financial reporting

Review & Audit Findings

Review the accounting and information management systems of the company and ensure that these are modernized and well-structured into a standard system.

Review the results from internal and external audits assessing the accuracy of financial reporting.

Budget Accuracy & Monitoring

Ensure the budget aligns with actual financial outcomes

Monitor budget utilized during a specific period

Examine the differences between planned and actual financial performance

Ensure to recognize and address significant discrepancies between budgeted and actual figures

Return on Investment & Process Improvement

Monitor financial returns achieved compared to the budgeted investment

Evaluation of the difference between actual revenues and expenses

Execution of strategies to control and reduce costs in line with the budget

Continuous enhancement of the budgeting process for efficiency and effectiveness

Internal Controls

Ensure that the company IT systems allow for all transactions to be processed within agreed levels of authority.

Design and implement a system of internal controls.

Design and execute a system of internal auditing to ensure that the system is being fully complied with.

Ensure full and complete sequence controls are in place and ensure that all transaction errors are reviewed and institutes corrective actions!

Review

Reviews all Debtors, Creditors and General Ledger account reconciliations monthly and ensures that these are clean and properly complete and agree with the underlying records.

Coordination & Collaboration

Co-ordinate with the external audit and ensure that it is completed timeously and to the satisfaction of the auditors.