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<div><strong>What You'll Do</strong><br/><br/>As an Accounting Manager at Kimpton, you'll be responsible for owning the Accounts Payable process, leading a small accounting team, assisting with month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, expense report management, and other special projects. In this position, you'll interact with both corporate and property-level employees, corporate senior management, and various vendors.<br/><br/><strong>Some of your responsibilities include:</strong><br/><br/><ul><li>Ensure cash flow is appropriate, initiate payments, reconcile balance sheets and statements.</li><li>Train and mentor the accounting team, providing continual feedback.</li><li>Responsible for monthly forecasting including interaction with department heads, including senior leaders.</li><li>Identify and evaluate opportunities to streamline processes while ensuring accuracy and timeliness.</li><li>Serve as a contact with external auditors for annual financial statement audits.</li><li>Handle the preparation of Tourism Tax returns.</li><li>We all wear multiple hats here at Kimpton. You may need to take on responsibilities outside of this job post (as we all do!).</li></ul><br/><strong>What You Bring</strong><br/><br/><ul><li>Bachelor's Degree preferred.</li><li>2-3 years of accounting experience, preferably within the Hospitality industry.</li><li>A fundamental understanding of GAAP and financial reporting requirements.</li><li>Strong leader with the ability to train and coach a team.</li><li>Excellent organizational and planning skills; task prioritization and effective time management.</li><li>Strong written, presentation, and informal communication skills.</li><li>Ability to understand issues and problem solve in a timely manner.</li><li>Comfortable working independently and in a collaborative environment.</li><li>Detailed knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, with emphasis on Excel.</li><li>Prior experience using accounting software, experience with PeopleSoft and/or Blackline is preferred.</li><li>Up-to-date technology expertise.</li></ul><br/><br/>Differences make a difference. We are committed to creating a culture that reflects the diversity of our hotel and restaurant guests. With that goal in mind, we encourage each of our employees to understand, accept, and celebrate differences among people. That includes different personalities, lifestyles, work styles, education, and experience. We also welcome and embrace people of all races, ethnicities, ages, religions, physical abilities, sexual orientation, gender identities and genders. For our complete EEO policy click here.<br/><br/><strong>Be Yourself. Lead Yourself. Make it Count.</strong></div>

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