Staff Accountant - Graduate Hotels

Graduate Hotels®, is seeking a Staff Accountant to join our Corporate Accounting Team in supporting Finance and Accounting for our collection of hotels.

As part of the Finance and Accounting Group, you will be responsible for the financial reporting and reconciliation for several hotels, working with the hotel leaders and accounting team to ensure accuracy and timeliness.

Graduate Hotels creates authentic, spirited spaces that connect travelers, students and locals alike. Through thoughtfully curated design, creative F&B and community-focused events, we create hotels worthy of their communities.

We are a diverse team of experience makers and storytellers. As a Graduate Hotels team member, you are the local insider shaping guest experiences. Our goal is to make every guest feel like a local even if it's their first time in town. In order to help you deliver on that goal, we encourage our team members to embody the same mindset as our guests through Graduate experiences and encouraged community exploration.

Graduate Hotels is proud to be Great Place to Work-Certified™, proving that our associates feel our commitment to cultivate a culture of inspirational and supportive leadership.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Monthly financial package
• Monthly owner reporting
• Monthly department reporting
• Trend and metric analysis
• Analyze data and make recommendations to Accounting
• Ad hoc reports as requested
• Development of budget planning tools
• Produce monthly forecast reporting
• Develop best practices around forecasting for hotel teams
• Track forecast accuracy by hotel
• Coordination of new hotel historical data into the various reporting systems
• ROI analysis on renovations and revenue enhancement projects

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Formal education degree in Accounting strongly preferred
• Minimum 2 years of experience required

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Ability to manage the creation of thoughtful analytical reports from source and transaction data
• Strong technical skills in business intelligence and accounting systems
• Advanced Excel knowledge
• Lodging or multi-unit consumer sector finance
• Ability to work smart in a fast-paced, rapidly growing, entrepreneurial organization
• Track record of progressive career development
• Ability to grow with additional responsibilities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office -- specifically expert capability in Excel
• Proficiency in ProfitSword and Dynamics

About Graduate Hotels®

Graduate Hotels is a hand-crafted collection of hotels that reside in dynamic university-anchored towns across the country. Each hotel pays homage to the heritage of its unique town through cultural nods to the local community. Launched in 2014, there are 35 hotels across the U.S. and U.K. Graduate Hotels is owned by Adventurous Journeys (AJ) Capital Partners, a vertically integrated real estate developer, owner and operator. For more information on Graduate Hotels, please visit www.graduatehotels.com.

*Graduate Hotels is an Equal Opportunity Employer.