Dual Property Accountant

Position Summary: Provide comprehensive, on-site accounting support for the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront and Hyatt Place St. Petersburg. Responsible for managing day-to-day property-level financial operations, ensuring compliance with corporate policies, procedures, brand standards, and federal, state, and local regulations across both hotel properties.

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Essential functions:

• Daily Operations: Manage and execute the day-to-day property-level accounting workflows for both the Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront and Hyatt Place St. Petersburg.
• Income Audit & Cash Handling: Perform daily income audits, verify night audit packages against PMS/POS systems, reconcile credit card deposits, and manage property vaults and house banks.
• Accounts Receivable: Manage the city ledger, process direct billing applications, handle guest billing inquiries, resolve credit card chargebacks, and drive collections efforts for both locations.
• Accounts Payable: Review, code, and route property-level invoices to appropriate department heads for approval, ensuring precise cost allocation between the two properties. Response promptly to vendor inquiries.
• Month-End Closing: Assist corporate accounting with the month-end closing process by preparing property journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and P&L review materials.
• Tax Compliance: Assist in compiling data and preparing monthly sales, use, occupancy, and communication tax returns for both St. Petersburg properties.  Tax exemption reporting to corporate accounting team.
• Payroll & Franchise Processing: Assist in processing monthly property-level payroll journals and review monthly brand franchise invoices.
• Special Projects: Support the General Manager and Director of Finance, and property leadership with specialized financial projects as requested.

This description is a summary of primary responsibilities and qualifications. The job description is not intended to include all duties or qualifications that may be required now or in the future.

Expected Areas of Competence:

• Highly detail oriented; checks own work, keeps accurate records, organizes information effectively.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Professional presence
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization, in a team-oriented environment.
• Proven track record of effective process management and improvement.
• Ability to tolerate ambiguity, handles multiple priorities, and identifies creative solutions to problems.
• Demonstrated history of taking initiative, meeting commitments and assisting in the creation of new tools or solutions to achieve business results.
• High level of energy, personal accountability and integrity.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Associate degree in accounting, business administration, or related field, OR 2+ years’ related experience in a hotel corporate accounting environment.
• Minimum 3–5 years’ progressive experience working in accounting at the hotel property level, with multi-property experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience using M3 accounting software and hotel Property Management Systems (Hilton PEP, Hyatt Place Opera Cloud)

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This description is a summary of primary responsibilities and qualifications. The job description is not intended to include all duties or qualifications that may be required now or in the future.