Assistant Dir Finance & Business Support - InterContinental Los Angeles

About InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown

As the tallest building west of Chicago, InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown will forever elevate the city skyline. Located in the epicenter of downtown’s historic financial and arts district, and mere blocks from Staples Center and L.A. Live, InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown leads the way as the new architectural icon of luxury hospitality. 

The hotel features 889 guest rooms including 109 suites, and a host of culinary venues, including La Boucherie, an elegant American steakhouse with a French twist; Sora, an upscale, intimate sushi restaurant; Dekkadance, an all-day dining international market experience; and Spire 73 – the tallest open-air rooftop bar in the Western Hemisphere – located atop the 73rd floor, boasting breathtaking 360-degree views. 

Bedecked in sustainable design, the hotel is the first LEED-Gold certified building in downtown Los Angeles for Building Design and Construction.

InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown has received awards from US News & World Report, Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice, Travel + Leisure World's Best, AAA Four Diamond, Wine Spectator, Meetings Today, and more. La Boucherie is also a Michelin Guide recommended restaurant. 

The hotel offers a 70th-floor sky lobby, 13,000 sq. ft. fitness center, Club InterContinental Lounge, and outdoor pool, as well as over 100,000 square feet of indoor/outdoor meeting and event spaces, including a 21,500-square-foot elegant Wilshire Grand Ballroom. From intricate light fixtures inspired by L.A.’s infamous freeways to billboard-inspired headboards in each guest room reflecting L.A.’s classic beach towns, foothills, car culture and urban scene, the hotel aims to bring a fresh, iconic and elevated perspective of Los Angeles to travelers and locals alike.

Duties and Responsibilities

FINANCIAL RETURNS

• Assist in managing revenues received and dispersed including accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll, audit, General Ledger reporting, and cash handling functions for the hotel.  Implement and maintain acceptable accounting practices and procedures as required by company policy and procedures, generally accepted accounting practices, and as effected by local conditions.

• Prepare financial analyses of hotel operations including variance explanation and make recommendations to ensure the achievement of business goals. 

• Assist in the preparation of budgets and financial forecasts and reporting. 

• Develop and implement financial control procedures and systems; maintain documents for audits of hotel accounts; ensure compliance with government regulations, federal, state and local laws, to include EEOC, Wage and Hour, union contracts, etc. Independently comply with record retention requirements.

• Assists with the review of operating equipment stores to avoid unnecessary/excessive purchases and to eliminate (or at least be aware) of obsolete slow-moving items.
• Assists with ensuring all accounts are reconciled on monthly basis, review and approve those reconciliations.
• Assists with ensuring payments are made to IHG (All Fees and billings) as fast as possible.

PEOPLE

• Work with other management personnel to establish and implement hotel service standards to achieve maximum profitability and efficiency.

• Promote teamwork and quality service through daily communication and coordination with other departments.  Key departmental contacts include hotel department heads in all departments and Directors of Area or Regional Hotel Finance to obtain/provide information.

• Interact with outside contacts:
  • Guests – to provide service, send bills and collect payment
  • Vendors – to pay bills or discuss pricing or billing issues; to ensure proof of insurance
  • Hotel legal counsel – to obtain legal advice as needed
  • Insurance companies, tax consultants, auditors, commercial and government banks – to collaborate on ongoing financial issues for the hotel
  • HMG accounting staff – to coordinate financial/accounting information, budget preparation, clarify issues and resolve problems.
  • Regulatory agencies – regarding compliance matters
  • Other contacts as needed (Professional organizations, community groups) 

GUEST EXPERIENCE

• Respond quickly to guest requests in a friendly manner.  Follow up to ensure guest satisfaction.

   

RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS 

• Assists with the distribution of forecast information as an up-to-date management tool for operating departments.
• Assist in the management of day-to-day operations and assignments of Finance staff, plan and organize work, communicate goals, and schedule/assign work.  A