Hotel Finance Manager Jobs in Kenya

Hotel Finance Manager Jobs in Kenya


Job Purpose:

Managing the Hotel’s Finance and Accounting department, producing accurate and timely financial reports, suggesting cost management and revenue enhancement strategies, implementing controls and safeguarding the company’s assets.

Key Objectives:

  • To ensure that the daily revenue and cost reports are promptly and accurately prepared.
  • To ensure the unit’s monthly accounts are accurately and timely prepared to enable management access and monitor the Hotel’s performance.
  • To ensure that the Hotel’s bank accounts are accurate and reconciliations done.
  • To prepare the unit’s budget so as to enable management do proper planning.
  • To manage the accounts department’s human resources.
  • To ensure the company’s assets are safeguarded.
  • To manage the hotel’s cash flow.
    Carry out credit control for selected accounts.
  • To undertake financial management for the hotel projects.

    Objectives Label: Daily Financial Reports

    Key Result Areas

  • Ensuring the daily revenue and cost reports are accurately and promptly prepared.
  • Ensuring the daily food a cost reports are accurately and promptly prepared.
  • Ensuring the daily beverage cost reports are accurately and promptly prepared and any shortages recovered.

    Key Performance Indicators

  • Timely and accurate reports
  • No delay in recovery of bar shortages.
    Objectives Label: Accurate and Correct Bookkeeping. Monthly Financial Reports

    Key Result Areas

  • Ensure proper book keeping at the hotel
  • Ensure correct posting of records
  • Ensuring that all monthly journal vouchers and postings are done on time and that they are accurate.
  • Preparing monthly accounts schedules for utilities and other accruals and ensuring there are adequate provisions in the accounts.
  • Ensuring schedules done by other staff in accounts are timely prepared and any outstanding items are followed up.
  • Preparing the Financial review statistics, reports and key indicator report on a monthly basis and facilitate finance reviews.

    Key Performance Indicators

  • Accurate postings
  • Accuracy of monthly accounts
  • Adequate provisions in the accounts and timely preparation of the schedules.
  • Follow up of outstanding items in the schedules.
  • Timely availability of accurate evaluation reports.
  • Objectives Label: Bank Accounts

    Key Result Areas

  • Prepare daily cash flow reports and comparing with the daily bank account balances.
  • Prepare monthly bank reconciliations for the foreign currency accounts.
  • Ensuring daily banking summaries are accurate.
    Checking payment documents and signing cheques for payments done at the Hotel.
  • Verification of the Hotel’s staff payroll.

    Key Performance Indicators

  • No difference between amounts banked and actual bank balances.
  • No reconciling items in the bank reconciliations.
  • No unbanked amounts which are supposed to be banked.
  • ccurate payment for goods or services rendered.
  • Objectives Label: Budget

    Key Result Areas

  • Liaising with departmental heads and WAL head office on items to be included in the budget.
  • Compilation of the budget document.
  • Discussion of the final budget proposal with the Hotel’s management before submitting to WAL head office.

    Key Performance Indicators

  • Communicating with the heads of departments on items to be included in the budget.
  • Timeliness and accuracy of the budget.
  • Management’s approval of the proposed budget.
    Objectives Label: Human Resources

    Key Result Areas

  • Conducting interviews.
  • Management of accounts staff performance.
  • Training and developing accounts staff
  • Managing accounts office staff leaves
  • Conducting departmental meetings

    Key Performance Indicators

  • Quality of staff in accounts.
  • Existence fully documented performance standards
  • Existence of clear practical job objectives for all accounts staff
  • No accumulation of leave days.
  • Staff well informed on the department’s goals and objectives.

    Objectives Label: Cash flow

    Key Result Areas

  • Monitor the hotel’s cash flow to ensure funds are available and properly allocated.

    Key Performance Indicators

  • No deficit and unnecessary charges in the bank accounts.

    Objectives Label: Safeguarding the company’s assets

    Key Result Areas

  • Ensure purchases of fixed assets are done procedurally by raising a capex form.
  • Ensure all fixed assets are tagged and the tag number is updated on the fixed asset register.
  • Ensure disposal form is raised for disposal of fixed assets.
  • Co-ordinate the physical stock-take of assets to ensure they are in existence.

    Key Performance Indicators

  • No assets purchased without capex.
  • No untagged assets
  • No assets disposed without the disposal form.
    Updated records of fixed assets.

    Objectives Label: Carry out credit control role for selected accounts

    Key Result Areas

  • Ensure Hotel credit card payments are promptly banked on a daily basis
  • Ensure reconciliation for credit card accounts is done promptly and accurately.
  • Ensure collection is done for debtors accounts
  • Ensure settlement is done for agent commissions

    Key Performance Indicators

  • No unbanked credit cards for Hotel.
  • Have correct credit card account reconciliations with any variances followed up.
  • No long outstanding debts for debtors.
  • No unsettled agent commissions.

    Objectives Label: Hotel Project

    Key Result Areas

  • Keep an updated record of all invoices/purchases made in relation to projects.
  • Ensure the project costs/invoices are posted to the correct account in the ledger.
  • Prepare and update the spreadsheet on the project’s progress.
  • Continuously update the spreadsheet with costs incurred.
  • Prepare sensitivity analysis for the various project phases.
  • Prepare the proposed budget for the projects.
  • Ensure supplier invoices are correct and paid on time.

    Key Performance Indicators

  • No unaccounted for project invoices.
  • No misposting of project invoices.
  • Availability of update on the project’s progress.
  • Records available for cumulative project costs.
  • Records available for projected revenue/profits.
  • Records available for project’s budget.
  • No complaints from suppliers regarding payment.

    How to Apply

  • QUALIFIED candidates should send their resume to info@wal-group.com by 21st January 2019.
  • Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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