Area Accounting Manager - Sonoma, Ca

Foley Entertainment Group LLC, a leading hospitality management company, is currently seeking a talented Area Accounting Manager to join our dynamic team in Sonoma, CA. The Area Accounting Manager will be responsible for overseeing the financial operations at three of our boutique hotels (a total of 104 rooms), ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting, and managing one site accountant. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in accounting, with experience in hospitality and F&B, and have exceptional leadership, problem solving and communication skills, along with being adaptable to change.
As we continue to expand our portfolio of boutique hotels along the West Coast, we are dedicated to fostering a supportive and innovative work environment for our team members. If you are a motivated and results-driven professional looking to make a significant impact in a thriving organization, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity. Become a part of our mission to create the best work environment in the industry and contribute to our ongoing success!
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monthly close for 3 small boutique hotels: including Hotel Les Mars, Farmhouse Inn, and MacArthur Place in Sonoma, CA. This includes general ledger activities, getting books in order, cash forecasting and more.
• Establish and Monitor Financial Systems: create, monitor, and evaluate financial systems. Collect, analyze, verify, and report financial information to document our company’s financial performance and position the company and upper management and stakeholders to make well-informed financial decisions.
• Meet Financial Objectives: Recommend forecasting requirements, draft annual budgets, and project expenditures to prepare periodic statements and meet financial regulatory requirements. Analyze general ledger variances and suggest corrective action for management's approval to meet annual accounting financial objectives.
• Achieve Operational Objectives: Develop action plans, audit operations, and propose efficiency improvements. Effectively lead the accounting team to provide accurate, timely data and recommendations.
• Monitor Revenue and Expenses: Ensure company’s financial wellbeing by tracking revenue and expenses, consolidating and analyzing financial data, preparing special reports, maintaining internal controls and other best practices, and reporting activity to internal and external customers.
• Lead one on-site accountant: Effectively lead and supervise one on-site accountant at MacArthur Place, conduct performance evaluations, coordinate training programs, and identify training needs.

Key Hard Skills:

• Financial Statement Preparation: Prepare financial statements, allowing the business to make strategic decisions about resource allocation.
• Microsoft Excel: use Microsoft Excel to streamline data. Some duties include automating repetitive tasks, creating financial models, and streamlining data analysis.
• Knowledge of U.S. GAAP: Understand GAAP and its implications, using it to guide the recording and preparation of financial statements, ensuring they are accurate and complete. Utilize GAAP standards to guarantee disclosures and properly describe a firm's financial position and performance.
• Financial Close Experience: Completes all financial transactions for the month, quarter, and year for all 3 boutique hotels (totaling 104 rooms) to ensure financial statements accurately represent the reporting period. Responsible for uncovering errors or discrepancies recorded in the financial statements before publication.

Key Soft Skills:

• Management: This role manages one person. Bring key management and supervisory skills to the role in order to allow yourself to plan and organize work, set priorities, and delegate tasks. Additionally, help leaders communicate effectively with team members to resolve conflicts and make decisions aligned with company priorities.
• Communication: Effectively communicate financial information to employees, shareholders, and other interested parties; simplify complex financial concepts, build relationships with key stakeholders, and prepare concise financial reports that accurately reflect organizations' financial health.
• Eye for Detail: Accurately track and record financial transactions, using a keen eye for detail to find and correct discrepancies. This information helps the company make important financial and operational decisions. Thus, it is essential that financial transactions and reports are accurate.
• Organizational Skills: Use strong organizational and time management skills to track and prioritize ongoing projects and tasks. Effectively launch, monitor, and evaluate accounting operations and deliverables.
• Adaptability: able and willing to be adaptable in the ever-changing hospitality and food & beverage industries. This includes but is not limited to engaging with customers, hotel guests and internal team members on inquiries, willing to be a team member and help out where needed, a high-degree of decorum and customer service experience and more.

Foley Entertainment Group, LLC. is an equal employment/affirmative action employer. If you need accommodation for any part of the employment process because of a disability, please send an e-mail to HR@vegasgoldenknights.com to let us know the nature of your request. This employer participates in E-Verify EOE/AA/Disabled/Vets Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.