Job Description:**OVERVIEW/BASIC FUNCTION**:Responsible for: overall management of all finance, accounting, purchasing and MIS functions, including, but not limited to safeguarding all assets, strategic planning/budgeting, and compliance with internal controls and procedures.**QUALIFICATIONS**:**Experience**:A minimum of 5 years' progressive hotel accounting experience with a luxury or ultra-luxury property.**Education**: Four year college degree in Accounting.**General Skills**: Must be able to perform job functions with attention to detail, speed and accuracy; prioritize, organize and follow-up; be a clear thinker, remaining calm and resolving problems using good judgment; follow directions thoroughly; understand a guest's service needs; work cohesively with co-workers as part of a team; work with mínimal supervision; maintain confidentiality of guest information and pertinent hotel data.**Technical Skills**: Thorough knowledge of accounting/hotel operations, purchasing and MIS functions; thorough knowledge of budgeting and generally accepted accounting principles; ability to maintain technical competence in accounting, tax matters and emerging hotel industry innovations; ability to direct and coordinate accounting functions; ability to communicate verbally and in writing in English; ability to train, motivate, evaluate, mentor and direct employees and managers to achieve desired results; ability to access, input, analyze and retrieve information from computers; ability to maintain excellent relations with staff; ability to maintain staff and guest confidentiality at all times; ability to accept responsibility for actions of others; ability to manage by example; exceptional oral communication skills to negotiate and persuade guests and staff to achieve results beneficial to operation of hotel; ability to add and subtract three digit numbers; ability to perform mathematical operations with units of measure including, but, not limited to percentages, dollars, cents, feet, inches, cups, pounds and ounces; ability to create, implement and monitor hotel and staff goals, strategies and policies; ability to converse calmly with irate guests, superiors and subordinates in sometimes intense emotional situations; ability to focus and maintain attention to performance of tasks despite frequent stressful, emergency, critical or unusual interruptions; ability to memorize, recollect and quickly retrieve dates, names, times and other data; ability to work and complete assignments on time despite frequent stressful, emergency, critical or unusual interruptions; ability to participate in (and lead when necessary) all departmental and hotel-wide meetings.**Job Requirements**:EEO-1 Code: 001-043