At Leonardo's, our fantastic people make sure that every stay is extra-special.
Working together to provide great hospitality and accuracy to our guests and hotel in the Finance team is one of our biggest priorities.
If you share our values friendly, genuine, positive, willing and consistent you can expect everything from a career with real prospects to big discounts at our hotels!
What you'll do Reporting directly to the Group Financial Controller and as a senior member of the finance team you will be responsible for maximising profitability of the business through commercial awareness and input into the key strategic decision-making processes.
Fantastic communication is vital, so ensuring effective and timely communication of business performance and potential opportunities to all levels of management within the organisation's processes and timelines are essential.
As is analysing key performance indicators, benchmarking and reviewing P&L reports with a view to making recommendations to optimise the business performance.
You will generate financial report and statements for key stakeholders and will have full ownership of all aspects of the financial reporting, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and day to day finance operations.
Other key tasks are participation in the month end accounts processes in conjunction with key departments, as per company standards signing off the monthly balance sheet.
Validating the internal controls and offering positive assurance on controls within the business.
Involvement in key projects to improve performance within the department and business is another area of continued focus.
Our people and teams are critical to the success of our company and it is vital that you work closely with key stakeholders in determining the best commercial and strategic decisions are made for the business, whilst leading an effective team in delivery of the finance function, serving internal and external customers.
Some of the perks our colleagues enjoy include: Special rates on Leonardo Hotel rooms across the UK & Europe: get planning that city break youve been dreaming of!
Company-wide recognition scheme: for being your fabulous self, you could earn vouchers to spend on a wide range of high street shops Meals on duty Talent referral scheme: earn yourself a bonus for recommending a friend to join us We love to get together and celebrate: we regularly host Thank You Week (your hotel could have anything from ice cream trucks to pizza parties) and every year we get dressed up in our fanciest threads to host our Employee Awards Celebration The important stuff: access to the Company Pension Scheme, Life Assurance and Wellbeing Support Ongoing job-related training programmes with clear paths for progression What you need You will be a qualified accountant with experience in a similar cluster role and former roles will include strong exposure to working in a multi-site operation ideally in a hospitality environment and you will have experience of proactive planning to ensure the readiness of the Finance department.
Being able to understand, interpret financial reports and able to communicate this data via written and verbal skills is key to this role but it's not always that straight forward so the use the of innovative ways of thinking are always helpful to ensure that we have all the right solutions.
The role will require you to be both proactive and confident working on you own initiative.
You will thrive and be at your best in a fast-paced environment, having the ability to prioritise work, have a keen eye for detail and work to challenging deadlines.
The clincher, ultimately you will be responsible for profitability, risk management and internal control, analysis & reporting to properties and central management.
Sound exciting?
then you will already have experience of managing stakeholders with strong influencing skills, commercial sensibility with a deep understanding of the industry and proven competence in the use of accounting and PMS systems down to a fine artThis is a regional role looking after several hotels in London/South East of England.
so, if you live within a commutable distance to the London/South East and are happy to travel to other sites too, we would be very happy to hear from you.
Our Story Built on decades of hotelier know-how, we operate over 270 hotels across the United Kingdom and Europe.
We look after over 55 hotels across the UK & Ireland, and being one of the fastest growing hotel groups, we have plans for major expansion over the next few years; theres never been a more exciting time to come join us!
Skills: Leadership Attention to detail flexibility Benefits: Competitive Salary
