Acting as an integral project member, responsible for providing support across a range of diverse financial integration projects for a large portfolio of hotels throughout EMEA.Support key finance integration projects from inception through to completion. Coordinating all areas of planning and development phases and collaborating with the wider project team to ensure successful deliverables.Develop good business relations with internal and external stakeholders. Consistently ensuring the successful delivery of projects that are targeted to financial process improvements. Identify and implement areas of improvement to project delivery process to successfully meet the needs of the business. Providing key insights to simplify and improve existing processes. Maintain accountability and apply effective critical thinking and problem solving to actively troubleshoot any issues throughout the project lifecycle. Liaise between cross-functional internal teams to ensure the swift resolution of any issue raised, communicate financial data and ensure compliance for auditing purposes. Deliver periodic training and coaching for project team members. Providing support and encouragement to promote the success of the team.

Accountable in a multi-faceted role within the Shared Services team for improving business processes for the wider Finance team for all UK managed hotels.Analyse existing financial processes, identifying and recommending areas of improvements to streamline daily operations.Develop and maintain a number of platforms whilst providing support and promoting awareness throughout the team on best use and processes for a range of software applications.Collaborate with key stakeholders to fully comprehend business success metrics and goals, proposing various solutions to meet these based-on analysis findings.Act as a key member and primary contact across numerous automation projects with third party vendors such as Accenture and Evention.Create Excel workbooks for the hotel finance teams in order to ease daily tasks for team members. Effectively utilise a range of internal systems to better consume data, including office 365 products and Power Automate.

Responsible for providing comprehensive support within the financial department, including effectively monitoring cash flow and carrying out general accounting duties to meet business requirements.Recorded and maintained financial transactions, including balance subsidiaries, general ledgers, and historical accounts.Reconciled various company ledgers, conducting accurate balance checks and ensuring any discrepancies were investigated and resolved within a timely manner.Processed payments to external partner, maintaining accurate records of invoices and receipts.Prepared and issued client invoices as well as effectively answering queries and resolving issues in relation to payments. Produced financial reports and in-depth cost analysis for senior management and other internal departments.Utilised and maintained good knowledge on internal financial systems to accurately record numerical data.

Supported the wider accounting team with daily transactional support, including managing spreadsheets and carrying out inclusive financial administration. Updated financial spreadsheets with daily transactions, maintaining good attention to detail throughout. Conducted regular bank reconciliations, ensuring accuracy in order to verify accounting numbers. Produced cost analysis (fixed and variable) reports for senior management.Issued invoices and followed up with clients, suppliers and partners as necessary. Processed incoming payments in compliance with company financial policies and procedures.Onboarded new suppliers onto the internal system, ensuring details were up to date and accurate and amended any outdated information accordingly.