Accounting Generalist

**Job Number** 24054026

**Job Category** Finance & Accounting

**Location** Europe Office-UKShared Service, Cedar House 750A Parkland Square, Luton, BEDFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom VIEW ON MAP

**Schedule** Full-Time

**Located Remotely?** N

**Relocation?** N

**Position Type** Non-Management
**JOB SUMMARY**

A member of the Shared Service Centre General Accounting department, responsible for the delivery of above property finance tasks, including general ledger accounting, credit control, accounts receivable and capital accounting and analysis. The Accounting Generalist will be part of a team carrying out a variety of finance tasks, to the highest standard, in a professional and efficient manner. The team may work on rotation of tasks in order to ensure a multi-skilled team of individuals, delivering the most effective and efficient levels of support to hotels.

**SCOPE/BUSINESS CONTEXT/EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS**

**Responsibilities**

The Accounting Generalist is a varied and diverse role, encompassing all elements of finance, as the business requires - both management accounting and financial accounting and may include the following tasks:
**Accounts Receivable / Credit Control Tasks**
- Monitor and/or prepare journals to ensure that write offs are carried out in accordance with Marriott billing ISOP
- Post and reconcile Amex payments notifying hotels of any chargebacks received and following up where these are not subsequently actioned by the hotels
- Monitor and co-ordinate all vendor rebate payments received ensuring timely pay out to the hotels through OFB uploads and corresponding journal postings to clear the payments from SSC balance sheet accounts.

**Revenue Controls**
- Prepare and post daily cash declarations and respond to any hotel queries regarding the postings.

**Accounts Payable / Commissions**
- Input and charge out of central invoices relating to the hotels through Peoplesoft AP and OFB.
- Input of ad hoc general invoices as required.
- Respond to supplier queries in relation to SSC processed payments.
- Recover CTAC VAT through the Onyx portal.

**Fixed Assets (Eagle Hotels/Marriott entities only)**
- Complete SSC Fixed Asset related Balance Sheet reconciliations.
- Liaise with Tower 8 to ensure all approved Capex invoices are processed through Accounts Payable.
- Monitor and follow up of Pro-Forma AP VAT accounts.
- Coordinate and review of PAR requests, notifying owners and issue of project numbers as required.
- Update Owners Priority, calculate & post.
- Weekly notification of AP funding requirements.
- Monthly production and review of master project listing with follow up communication to hotels as required.
- Monthly reconciliation of Capex bank account.
- Prepare and send monthly reporting pack to PWC.
- Prepare and send monthly reporting pack to owners.
- Ad hoc reporting and analysis related to Capex/Fixed Assets as required.

**Balance Sheet**
- Complete any designated above property Balance Sheet reconciliations.

**Beagle Administration and Food Invoice Processing**
- Daily upload of food revenue to the Beagle portal.
- Weekly export of approved invoices to the AP system.
- Monthly food allowance export and posting.
- Monthly export and food accrual posting.
- Monitoring of Beagle portal to ensure invoices are approved and rejected invoices actioned.
- Reconciliation of supplier statements and follow up to ensure all invoices are processed.
- Prepare and send to Entegra monthly P&L reports.

**Month End Tasks**
Calculate, post and reconcile:

- Bad Debt provision
- Credit Card commission accruals
- P Card rebate accruals
- Prepayments
- Transactional Currency Accounting
- Utilities accruals
- Vendor Rebate Accruals and relevant adjustments/billings
- Enhanced Commission Accruals and relevant adjustments/billings
- Head Count Statistics
- Life Assurance and Private Health billings
- Car Lease cross charges
- Utility cross charges
- Bonus reclassifications
- Business Rates payments/reclassifications
- ADIA Insurance prepayments
- Catering segmentation
- Water Sewer Statistics
- DCC Commission processing
- Amex/Diners Commissions
- Payroll Hours
- Third Party Restaurant Statistics
- Programme Services Accrual
- Payroll Hours Journal
- Golf Round Statistics
- Leisure Member Statistics
- Eagle Owners Priority
- Incentive Fee Calculation

**Other General Accounting Tasks**
- Work on one off ad hoc projects as and when required.
- Liaise and answer client queries in a professional and courteous manner
- Work closely with the General Accounting Manager to provide ongoing support.
- Performs other duties as assigned to meet business needs.

**CANDIDATE PROFILE - KEY TALENTS AND EXPERIENCE DESIRED**

**REQUIRED**:

- Hotel Operational Finance knowledge and experienced preferred - previous experience could include. Finance Associate, Credit Controller, Capital Expenditure accountant.
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Excel and experience of other Microsoft Office programs.
- Opera, People