General Accountant

Job description

Passionate about financial accuracy, cost efficiency, and supporting operational excellence in luxury hospitality? As a General Accountant you will play a key role in monitoring hotel costs, maintaining accurate financial records, and ensuring effective inventory management and internal controls. Working closely with the Purchasing, Receiving, Stores, Kitchen, and Food & Beverage teams, you will help optimize operational costs, identify financial variances, and support the hotel’s overall financial performance.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and control food, beverage, and operating supply costs to ensure compliance with budget and hotel standards.
• Conduct daily, weekly, and monthly cost analysis, identifying variances and recommending corrective actions.
• Verify purchase orders, market lists, goods received notes, supplier invoices, and related supporting documents.
• Conduct regular physical stock counts and reconcile inventory balances with system records.
• Monitor food and beverage costs, consumption, wastage, transfers, and inventory variances.
• Review receiving, storeroom, and issuing procedures to ensure compliance with internal controls.
• Prepare monthly cost reports, inventory reports, variance analysis, and other management reports.
• Monitor operating expenses and investigate unusual cost fluctuations.
• Assist with month-end closing, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and preparation of financial reports.
• Ensure accurate recording of transactions and compliance with hotel financial policies and procedures.
• Coordinate with the Purchasing, Receiving, Stores, Kitchen, and F&B teams to improve cost efficiency.
• Support budget preparation, forecasting, and implementation of cost-saving initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum 2–3 years of accounting experience, preferably within the hotel or hospitality industry.
• Previous experience in Cost Control, particularly in food and beverage costing and inventory management, is highly preferred.
• Good understanding of purchasing, receiving, stock control, inventory reconciliation, and cost analysis procedures.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and accounting systems; experience with hotel systems such as Futurelog and SunSystems is an advantage.
• Strong analytical, numerical, and problem-solving skills.
• Good attention to detail, integrity, and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Good communication and coordination skills, with the ability to work effectively across hotel departments

Benefits

• Employee benefit card offering discounted rates at Accor properties worldwide.
• Learning programs through our Academies and the opportunity to earn qualifications while you work.
• Opportunity to develop your talent and grow within your property and across the world.
• Ability to make a difference in the local community through our Corporate Social Responsibility activities, including Planet 21.