Job Description
Senior Management Accountant
Abu Dhabi | Full-Time | Hotels | Salary: up to AED 20,000 per month
We are partnering with a leading hotel group in Abu Dhabi to recruit an experienced Senior Management Accountant with a strong background in hotel management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly ambitious hotel group where you'll play a key role in delivering accurate financial information, supporting commercial decision making and driving financial performance across the business.
Key responsibilities:
- Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts across multiple hotel entities.
- Lead the month end close process, ensuring all financial reporting deadlines are achieved.
- Produce detailed variance analysis, providing clear commentary on financial performance against budget and forecast.
- Support the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting process, working closely with operational stakeholders.
- Partner with hotel management teams to provide financial insight and support commercial decision making.
- Monitor revenue, payroll and operating costs, identifying trends, risks and opportunities to improve profitability.
- Review balance sheet reconciliations and ensure strong financial controls are maintained.
- Support statutory audits and ensure financial information is accurate, complete and audit-ready.
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes, financial controls and system efficiencies.
- Mentor and support junior members of the finance team where required.
Key experience:
- Previous experience in a Senior Management Accountant, Management Accountant or similar finance role.
- Essential:
Previous finance experience within the hotel industry.
- Strong experience preparing monthly management accounts, budgets and forecasts within a multi entity environment.
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial data and provide meaningful commercial insights.
- Strong understanding of financial controls, balance sheet reconciliations and month end close processes.
- Fully or part-qualified ACA, ACCA or CIMA (or qualified by experience with extensive experience).
- Advanced Excel skills with experience analysing and presenting financial data.
- Experience using ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Sun, NetSuite, Sage or similar.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships across finance and operational teams.
On offer:
- Full-time, permanent position based in Abu Dhabi.
- Opportunity to join a well-established and growing hospitality group.
- A senior finance position with exposure to key business stakeholders and decision-makers.
- Collaborative finance team with opportunities to drive process improvements and add commercial value.
- Salary of up to AED 20,000 per month plus benefits.
Please note: Due to the nature of the business, previous hotel finance experience is essential. Applications without this experience are unlikely to be considered.
Only shortlisted candidates will be considered