Area Hotel Staff Accountant

 Job Purpose:  The Area Hotel Staff Accountant is responsible for supporting the financial operations of a cluster of hotels by maintaining accurate accounting records, ensuring compliance with company policies, and assisting with financial reporting. This position plays a key role in the monthly close process, reconciliation activities, and overall financial accuracy to support hotel management in decision-making.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Bank Reconciliation
  Reconcile daily and monthly bank statements to ensure all transactions are recorded accurately and resolve any discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Balance Sheet Reconciliation
  Prepare and maintain monthly reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts to support financial statement accuracy and identify variances.  Prepare a brief narrative for each account to explain its contents and change since the prior period.
• End-of-Month Entries (Prepaids/Accruals)
  Record monthly journal entries for prepaid expenses and accruals to ensure expenses are matched to the appropriate accounting periods.
• Income Audit
  Review and verify daily revenue reports from hotel operations to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with accounting standards.
• Payroll Journal Entries
  Post payroll-related journal entries, including wages, benefits, and tax liabilities, to ensure payroll expenses are properly recorded in the general ledger.
• Other Duties

Generate additional reporting, perform research or analysis, or other duties assigned by the Director(s) of Finance, Property Accountants, or General Managers. 

Education & Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
• 2+ years of accounting experience, preferably in the hospitality industry and preferably in a multi-property environment.
• Proficiency in accounting software (e.g. HIA, Sage, QuickBooks, etc.) and Microsoft Excel.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to meet deadlines.
• Understanding of USALI (Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry), GAAP and basic internal controls.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Professional Characteristics:

• Work with and understand financial information, data, and complex arithmetic functions.
• Ability to clearly convey information and ideas.
• Maintain composure and objectivity under pressure.
• Effectively handle problems in the workplace, including anticipating, preventing, identifying, and solving problems as necessary.
• Willing to listen, understand, clarify and resolve the concerns or issues raised by co-workers, vendors and hotel staff associates and customers.
• Ability to prioritize job functions to meet established deadlines.

Physical Requirements:

• Flexible and long hours sometimes required.
• Sedentary work – Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

 Work Authorization:  Must be eligible to work in the United States. 

EEO Statement:  Main Street Hospitality is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.