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The Staff Accountant is responsible for the accounting function for the company’s hotel portfolio.  This involves interaction with hotel finance teams and ensuring the accounting is completed in accordance with accounting pronouncements and legal agreements for these hotels.  The Accountant is responsible for monitoring status and completion of all tasks, ensuring timely completion in accordance with established deadlines, and reporting to accounting leadership and other internal and external parties.  Additionally, the Accountant may assist with accounting for fixed assets, debt, cash and joint venture accounting.  The Accountant may also be asked to assist with corporate accounting activities.

What will I be doing?

• Responsible for monthly close of financial statements related to assigned hotel portfolio in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and/or local accounting standards, as well as the company’s own accounting policies, to include recording of journal entries, analysis, inquiries, and review.
• Reviews the accounting activities associated with hotel operating activity, including proper recording of fees, working capital and intercompany lease expense.
• Perform variance analysis against prior year, forecasts and budgets as necessary.
• Review and analyze the hotel’s operational balance sheet reconciliations.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations for the ownership balance sheet accounts.
• Calculate and acccount for hotel ownership expenses, including real estate taxes, property insurance, ground leases, etc.
• Review capital requests to ensure assets are being capitalized in accordance with GAAP and company policy. 
• Ensure assets in the fixed asset system are being depreciated or amortized in the appropriate asset category with the correct lives. 
• Monitor balances in Construction in Progress (CIP) to ensure assets are being transferred from CIP to the Fixed Asset system to begin depreciating when projects are completed and in service.
• Assist in the review of capital budgets to ensure they are being prepared in accordance with Company policies
• Participate and/or assist the supervisor in special projects such as hotel sales, hotel purchases, debt refinancing, and any other aspects related to accounting for the company’s hotel portfolio.
• Responsible for having a good working knowledge of the related legal agreements and, with coaching from their supervisor, ensuring that transactions are accounted for in compliance with the terms of the applicable agreements, that risks associated with the contracts are assessed and minimized, and decisions are evaluated against the appropriate agreements.
• Interfaces with stakeholders from other departments (Legal, Tax, Asset Management).
• Interacts with the hotel finance team including that of third party managers. 
• Understanding of accounting internal control policies and procedures to ensure the internal control environment is maintained for all aspects of hotel operations accounting and provides supporting documentation to internal and external auditors regarding completion of control procedures.
• Coordinate with internal and external auditors to provide requested documentation supporting accounting transactions.
• Disseminate, organize and communicate regarding assignments and projects within the department and with senior leaders/constituents from other departments.
• Implement and manage team goals to ensure strategies and directives of department are carried out and in accordance with department and company objectives.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.