Financial Accountant - InterContinental Perth

About us

IHG is one of the world's leading hotel companies. Present in around 100 countries, we have more than 6,600 hotels. You'll know some or all of our 20 hotel brands. They are some of the best known and most popular in the world, including InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Regent, Six Senses, Hotel Indigo, and Voco.

As the world's largest family of luxury hotels, we all take great pride in being genuine ambassadors of the InterContinental brand. Shaped by decades of international know-how and local insights, our passion for luxury travel spans cultures and customs. Inspiring us to create warm and sophisticated experiences for those seeking a richer perspective on the world. Each of our hotels cultivates a distinctive style and ambience where we embrace every opportunity to give our guests a personal and enriching experience. If you'd like to embrace a wider world of experiences and opportunities, we'd like to welcome you to the world's most international luxury hotel brand.

InterContinental Perth City Centre opened in October 2017 and is a 240-room design orientated hotel in the heart of Perth's CBD. 

We are looking for a Financial Accountant to join our charming, confident and internationally minded team who knows how to exceed guest expectations.   

Your day to day

As the Financial Accountant, you’ll support the Director of Finance, in varied finance and business support tasks required, including partnering with Accounts Clerk and all Hotel Leaders.  

You will drive continued improvement in financial performance, whilst embedding high standards of guest satisfaction and employee engagement into every interaction.  You will also operate within IHG's policies and procedures and assistance of implementation and adhering to it, as well as local compliance requirements, assists in responsibility for all hotel accounting and financial controls. 

• You will be performing professional accounting duties to maintain, control over expenses, income, assets and liability of the hotel to ensure the security of the assets of the company.
• You will also be responsible for the smooth running of the fortnightly payroll including liaising with the national payroll on all queries and requests.
• You will partner the wider leadership team to further build strong financial, payroll and system knowledge and skills .
• You will be assuming the role of System Champion for the time and attendance system and facilitate Payroll Productivity Meeting in a manner to engage and inspire others to continuously grow in payroll system skills and productivity efficiencies.
• You will be assuming the role of System Administrator of the Point of Sales System including managing system pricing, troubleshooting any systems issues with the assistance of POS Vendor and liaising with the internal Technology Management Services (TMS).
• You will take ownership of Income Audits and supervise Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable teams based at the internal Business Service Centre.

What we need from you

You'll have at least 3 to 5 years' experience in an accounting clerical / assistant position or similar; plus tertiary qualification in Finance or Accounting is preferred. You'll demonstrate a focused and dedicated work ethic, high attention to detail and ability to effectively communicate (written & oral) and influence others across levels of the organisation.

Candidates must have unlimited and unrestricted working rights for Australia. Visa sponsorship is not available.

What we offer

You’ll be rewarded for your hard work with a range of benefits that supports you throughout your IHG career journey

• Free meals on shift
• Laundered uniform supplied
• Paid birthday leave - hip hip hooray!
• Paid parental leave
• Proactive paid wellness and mental health days
• Discounted CBD carparking
• Some of the best colleague discounts across our IHG Hotels for accommodation, food and beverage
• A massive colleague discounts platform for all your favorite brands and retailers - to help your salary/wage go further
• Most importantly, your career journey will be supported through our lifelong development programs, IHG career milestone celebrations, and transfer of leave entitlements as you move and grow with IHG.

We are proud to be InterContinental Perth City Centre and proud to be IHG and we know you will be too.