Hotel Accountant

About this role

A hotel accounting role based in Lagos for a hospitality consultancy focused on servicing small to medium hotels. The position requires solid knowledge of hotel accounting, strong numerical ability, attention to detail, and experience with financial controls, revenue reconciliation, and identifying financial discrepancies and leakages. The candidate will handle daily financial record keeping, revenue reconciliation across multiple hotel income streams, and support budgeting, cost control, payroll, purchasing, and reporting. The employer works with hotels as clients and aims to elevate hospitality standards. The role involves collaborating with the General Manager and department heads to improve profitability and reduce costs.

What you would do

• Maintain accurate records of all hotel financial transactions including income, expenses, payments and receipts
• Reconcile daily revenue from rooms, restaurant, bar, events, laundry and other revenue centres and investigate discrepancies
• Monitor payments to suppliers and track outstanding customer and corporate accounts
• Reconcile bank statements with hotel records and manage petty cash and operational payments controls
• Assist in preparing the hotel budget and monitor expenditure against it
• Prepare or verify staff payroll including salaries, allowances and deductions
• Monitor purchases, invoice validation and correspondence with approved requisitions and deliveries
• Prepare daily, weekly and monthly financial reports for management
• Ensure records for tax and statutory obligations are maintained and compliance pursued
• Support internal and external audits with documentation and traceable transactions

What they are asking for

• Good knowledge of hotel accounting
• Strong numerical ability and attention to detail
• Experience with financial controls and hotel revenue reconciliation
• Ability to identify financial discrepancies and leakages
• Experience in payroll processing and supplier/customer payment management
• Familiarity with budgeting, cost control and purchasing processes
• Ability to collaborate with management and department heads
• Experience in financial reporting and stakeholder communication

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