Primary Responsibilities
Regional Financial Strategy & Performance Oversight
• Translate Accor’s global and Greater China finance strategy into actionable financial goals for the hotels.
• Monitor and analyze hotel financial KPIs such as cost ratios, GOP, and DT etc.
• Support hotel teams in identifying opportunities to improve profitability and optimize financial performance.
Guidance & Empowerment of Hotel Finance Leaders
• Oversee the performance, development, and compliance of Directors of Finance within the region.
• Review and advise on major hotel finance decisions such as budgeting, forecast revisions, significant procurement, and cash flow.
• Facilitate regional finance conference, workshops, and best practice / fraud case sharing sessions.
Financial Reporting & Compliance Oversight
• Ensure full compliance with Accor Finance Manual, local regulatory requirements, and internal control standards.
• Coordinate internal audits, and compliance reviews to prevent significant control failures.
• Guide DOFs on ensuring the quality of financial reporting including month-end closing, P&L reviews, and other reporting.
Budgeting, Capex, and Owner Relations
• Support hotels in budget, and rolling forecasts
• Evaluate capital investment plans
• Represent Accor in financial discussions with owners, ensuring transparency and mutual understanding of business performance
Others
• Review of hotel accounting system set up, hotel profit and Loss balance sheet to ensure accuracy and standardization
• To support hotels on finance technical aspect, follow through of policies and procedures
• To support hotels pre-opening by providing guidance to the Director of Finance to follow the preopening process and critical path
• Conduct interview of the Director of Finance candidates by screening their technical skill and good fit for the hotel
• Conduct orientation for newly joined Director of Finance
• Hotel monthly P&L and Drop through review
• Yearly hotel budget reviews
• Interact with owner on various finance operation issues
• Conduct finance annual task list survey to ensure requirements are met
• Handle any other projects as assigned from time to time
Knowledge and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in finance & accounting
• Minimum of 10-to-12-year hotel finance experience and minimum of 5 to 6 years in Director of Finance position. Experience in the area Director of Finance is an added advantage and proven record of stability in the position held
• Familiar with hotel policies and procedures, internal control requirement, hotel Chart of Account, skillful for Sun system; MC; Check EAM Micros and Opera system. Familiar with tax law and accounting principle
• Strong ability in financial management and analysis
• Have good experience on hotel operation and pre-opening
• Hand-on in Finance operation and good analytical skills
• Knowledge in fraud prevention
• Able to travel per job requirement
• Good communication skills
• Accounting Technical capacity
• Leadership capacity
• Good Excel skills
• Mature mindset to handle internal and external people
