Staff Accountant
Company: The Elser Hotel & Residences
Location: Miami
Posted on: September 19, 2023
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Job Description:
Highgate Hotels
Highgate is a leading real estate investment and hospitality
management company widely recognized as an innovator in the
industry. Highgate is the dominant player in major U.S. gateway
cities including New York, Boston, Miami, San Francisco and
Honolulu, with a growing Caribbean and Latin America footprint. The
hospitality forward company provides expert guidance through all
stages of the property cycle, from planning and development through
recapitalization or disposition. Highgate has a proven record of
developing its diverse portfolio of bespoke lifestyle hotel brands,
legacy brands, and independent hotels and resorts with contemporary
programming and digital acumen. The company utilizes
industry-leading revenue management tools that efficiently identify
and predict evolving market dynamics to drive outperformance and
maximize asset value. With an executive team consisting of some of
the most experienced hotel management leaders, the company is a
trusted partner for top ownership groups and major hotel brands.
Highgate maintains corporate offices in New York, Chicago, Dallas,
London, Miami, and Seattle. www.highgate.com .
Location
The Elser Hotel & Residences is a 49-story luxury condominium hotel
located in Downtown Miami. The newly completed tower offers 646
fully furnished rooms/residences, over 19,000 square feet of
curated amenities and 5,000 square feet of prime retail space.
Named after the iconic Elser Pier, which was built in the 1900s and
became the premier place for locals and visitors to enjoy the
magical shoreline of Biscayne Bay in downtown Miami, The Elser
Hotel & Residences will continue this tradition.
Overview
The Staff Accountant is responsible for assisting the Director of
Finance and Assistant Director of Finance in maintaining accurate
and timely financial resporting; ensuring acceptable levels of
internal control; ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and
local regulations and Highgate Hotels Standard Operating
Procedures; and safeguarding owners/investors assets. For this
role, the emphais is placed on the management of Payroll, Income
Audit and Accounts Receivable processing and collections
Responsibilities
- Monitor, prepare, and communicate financial reports in accordance
with Highgate Hotels required due dates.
- Income Audit including entering information into the BiPortal on
a daily basis.
- Utilize and maintain time and attendance system and process,
daily, weekly, and bi-weekly payroll and related information to
include verifying payroll information, recording
earnings/deductions., etc.
- Prepare and input all required payroll journal entries.
- Maintain responsibility for the daily Accounts Receivable credit,
billing, and collection process.
- Monitor payment requirements on groups or functions and process
deposits.
- Approve or decline credit requests.
- Complete collection calls on each appropriate outstanding
accounts and maintain collection files on each outstanding
issue.
- Review and approve the City Ledger transfers daily and
communicate to supervisor any deviation from established Accounting
policies and procedures.
- Handle customer inquries in a professional and timely manner,
provide customers with accurate invoices, statements, and
schedules.
- Process returned checks and credit card chargebacks.
- Conduct monthly credit meetings and maintain minutes (including
returned checks/chargeback logs, credit trace reports, write-off,
bad debt allowances, etc.)
- Partner with the Sales and Events Team by establishing customer
credit, including but no limited to application processing,
reference checks, credit limitation, direct billing list, and
deposit requirements.
- Maintain an efficient collection process to include organized
filing and tracing system, issuing letter, monitoring returned
checks and charge backs, performing collection calls and preparing
bad debt write-offs.
- Update daily revenue reports both for internal distribution and
corporate distribution.
- Monitor guest ledger, advance deposit ledger and any other
related ledgers to ensure proper internal control.
- Keep management aware of any unusual operation or financial
occurances and/or significant deviations.
- Reconcile invoices against ledgers or schedules to ensure
accuracy of invoicing.
- Assist in the monthly close process by posting journal entries
that are related to daily/monthly responsibilities.
- Ensure overall guest satisfaction by attentive listening and then
immediately resolving guest issues or elevatiung to the Director of
Finance or General Manager.
- Cross-Train in other areas within the Accounting Department
including accounts payable.
- Ability to identify root causes of issues that may affect staff
or guests and provide actionable and measurable solutions to
improve efficiency, overall work environment, and/or guest
experience
Keywords: The Elser Hotel & Residences, Miami , Staff Accountant, Accounting, Auditing , Miami, Florida
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