Accounts Assistant - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Midland Manchester A Leonardo Royal Hotel

The Midland Manchester A Leonardo Royal Hotel

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Ref:
JI23140

Branch:
The Midland Manchester A Leonardo Royal Hotel

Location:
The Midland Manchester A Leonardo Royal Hotel

Salary/Benefits:
Competitive Salary

Contract type:
Permanent

Hours:
Full Time

Hours per week:40

Posted date:13/05/2024

Closing date:15/06/2024

ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT

We are looking for an enthusiastic, genuine and friendly person who really enjoys working in hotels.

We want you
to be part of a great and diverse team working together to provide great hospitality and accuracy to our guests and hotel in the accounts team.
In this role, you will be a key member of the Accounts Team, reporting to the Cluster Supervisor/Manager. Your main responsibility will be to ensure the efficient running of the finance functions within the property. The role will provide anyone with hospitality experience a great start to an accounting career.

As an Accounts Assistant we want you to -

Be Selfmotivated as you will be working mainly alone as part of a dispersed team
Well organised

- achieving deadlines for tasks and meeting targets

Have good communication skills

- to your colleagues in the hotel and within your cluster team.

Be trustworthy and security conscious, you will have access to cash and guest and company financial details.
Detail orientated

- you will be completing repetitive, structured tasks which must be correct.

Accounts Assistant Key Responsibilities:

Assist the Cluster Financial Controller /Accounts Manager in ensuring that profitability is optimised within the business.
To ensure that all customer requests, complaints and queries are responded to promptly and effectively
To ensure effective and timely communication of business performance and opportunities to all levels of management within the organization's processes and timelines.
To ensure that all banking transactions are processed and cleared in a timely manner.
To ensure the weekly and monthly deadliness are processed within the timelines and ensure all appropriate signatures are on relevant documentation in line with company policy while maintaining confidentiality.
To participate in the month end accounts processes in conjunction with central services, as per company policies and procedures, ensuring preparation of accurate and timely financial reports.
To carry out the Income Audit functions fully for the property.
To deal with the daily city ledgers and assist the AR department with queries to ensure that all debt is collectable.
To assist with the Purchasing to ensure timely receipting and query resolution.
To assist with the valuation of stock takes within the property
To potentially provide support in other properties within the cluster should the need arise e.g. holiday cover
Have an excellent level of business English.
Have excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Be able to demonstrate a basic understanding interpretation of financial reports.
Have excellent attention to detail, organised and can work to strict deadlines.
Have experience in team development.
Have commercial understanding and business.
Have proven competence in the use of accounting and PMS systems.
Experience of Opera, Micros and SAP..
Be flexible regarding travel and work hours, with a possibility of overnight stay.
Experience of hospitality is ideal.

About The Midland Manchester A Leonardo Royal Hotel:
Situated in the heart of the city, The Midland is a luxury hotel in Manchester like no other.

Host to an array of Kings, Queens, Presidents and Prime Ministers over the years, you can rest assured knowing that you'll be staying in one of most iconic and historic hotels in Manchester.

As a four star hotel, The Midland features 312 pristine bedrooms, two award-winning restaurants, Adam Reid at the French and Mr Cooper's, an elegant Tea Room, a newly refurbished bar and lounge and 14 impressive conference and meeting rooms to fulfil all your business needs.

If you're looking to make the most of your time in Manchester, look no further than The Midland Hotel. Our guests will also benefit from our award-winning luxurious spa, The Spa At The Midland.

Designed with relaxation in mind, our tranquil spa offers a wide range of treatments including our unique Rasul Spa experience.

About Leonardo Hotels:

At Leonardo Hotels, our vision is very simple: to be the first choice for everyone who values genuine hospitality.

Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we are part of the Fattal Hotels Group, which operates over 230 hotels across Europe and Israel.

We look after over 50 hotels here in the UK Ireland, and have come a long way since we opened our first hotel in Ireland back in 1993 With approximately 4,000 employees and multiple brands we are a dynamic, innovative and fast-growing company.

As an employer we put a big emphasis on career development and as a rule we recruit our operations team members for personality
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