Working as Senior Manager (Hotel Accounting), responsible for the adherence of all SLAs pertaining to the Accounting /Closing, Cash Flows, MIS, Balance Sheet Recs, Audits and assisting on formulation of Budgets/Forecasts for all the IHG Hotel Properties situated in the region. This includes a combination of IHG Owned properties and Managed properties wherein ownership is held by HPT (Hospitality Public Trust), PAL (Privatised Army Lodging – US Army), FelCor and others etc.

Job Responsibilities

•	Supervising the Monthly closure of Books of Accounts of Hotels: Preparing the required month end journals viz. Accruals & Prepayments, Cross Charges, Allocations & finalizing the P&L numbers.

•	Cash Flow: Monthly Cash Flow circulation of Hotels based on analysis of the Balance sheet movements combined with business-critical assumptions. 

•	Total Portfolio Operating Profit (TPOP): Hotel Accounting team is responsible for the review of this report which serves as the basis for calculation of Basic Management Fees and Incentive Management fees (BMF & IMF) payable to IHG for Managed services. 

•	Balance Sheet Reconciliation: Responsible for meeting SLA around Balance Sheet Recs for all American Hotel Properties authenticated with the help of relevant backups. Ensuring quality of reconciliations throughout the procedure of Preparation, Approval and Review.

•	Facilitate and liaison with auditors during the year end audit procedures and providing support to meet the requirements from a hotel standpoint.

•	Team Management: Managing a team of 50 members, consisting of a mix of Managers, Assistant Managers, Team Leads, Specialists and Analyst/Sr. Analysts. Responsible for their mentorship, formulating growth paths, setting up yearly KPOs and its periodical review & appraisal.


Client Relationship Management: Periodical meetings/Calls in the form of FC Forums, Business Support meetings to gather expectations, improvement prospects and taking necessary actions, coupled with proper follow ups to understand the gaps, if any