Senior Accounting & Reporting Analyst

What will I be doing?

General

• Collaborates with stakeholders from other departments (Legal, Tax, Asset Management, Investments, D&C, HR, Investor Relations) and engages with Park’s Accounting team, in addition to the Accounting teams at the Company’s hotels when necessary.

• Demonstrates understanding of accounting internal control policies and procedures to ensure the internal control environment is maintained for all aspects of accounting and provides supporting documentation to internal and external auditors regarding completion of control procedures.

• Coordinate with both external and internal auditors to provide requested documentation regarding financial statements and accounting treatment for specific transactions.

• Responsible for monitoring status and completion of all tasks, ensuring timely completion in accordance with established deadlines, and reporting to accounting leadership and other internal and external parties.

Financial Reporting, Technical Accounting and Internal Audit Support

• Prepare the consolidated financial statements, XBRL, and other information included in quarterly and annual SEC filings, ensuring compliance with all reporting and disclosure requirements under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the SEC, as applicable.

• Prepare subsidiary and other financial statements submitted externally to regulators, lenders and other parties for various reporting obligations, ensuring compliance with all reporting and disclosure requirements under US GAAP and other regulations, as applicable.

• Prepare the Company’s quarterly earnings press release and financial supplements and provide input to and review of the earnings call script.

• Prepare investor presentations, partnering with Investor Relations, Financial Planning & Analysis, and Corporate Finance teams.

• Maintain and update accounting policies with input from operational teams as necessary.

• Maintain effective controls and enhance controls where possible for existing processes and provide supporting documentation to internal audit regarding completion of control procedures.

• Develop and share knowledge of the requirements of new accounting & auditing standards and the accounting and disclosure requirements of transactions, considering the relevant accounting literature and the effect of transactions on the Company’s financial statements and accounting policies.

• Perform analysis of transactions considering the relevant accounting literature and assessing the affect on the Company’s results, financial position and financial statement dislosure. 

• Prepare monthly debt covenant requirements and supporting analyses and ensure timely submission to lenders.

• Assist with the preparation of the Annual Proxy Statement.

Other/Ad-hoc

• May be responsible for monthly close in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and/or local accounting standards, as well as the company’s own accounting policies, to include recording of journal entries, analysis, inquiries, and review.

• Responsible for having a good working knowledge of the related legal agreements and, with coaching from their supervisor, ensuring that transactions are accounted for in compliance with the terms of the applicable agreements, that risks associated with the contracts are assessed and minimized, and decisions are evaluated against the appropriate agreements.

• Participate and/or assist in special projects such as hotel sales, hotel purchases, debt refinancing, and any other aspects related to accounting for the Company’s hotel portfolio.

• Assist in other internal audit activities, including hotel site visits.

• Responsible for training new users on financial reporting software.

What skills and qualifications must I possess?

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Accounting

• BA/BS/Bachelor