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Hotel Equities

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1989

🏨 Hospitality

🏠 Real Estate

🤝 B2B

💰 $500M Private Equity Round - Hotel Equities on 2018-09

Hospitality • Real Estate • B2B

Hotel Equities is a hotel management and development company that operates across the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America. It develops and manages branded hotels, independent properties, resorts, and outdoor destinations, and serves market segments through specialized verticals (Full Service, Focused Service, and Springboard Hospitality/lifestyle). The company runs an innovation and incubation division (HE Labs) and provides world-class management training and services to brand representatives, institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals, and fellow hoteliers.

📋 Description

• Assume full accountability for the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of consolidated financial reporting across all managed and owned properties • Review and approve consolidated monthly financial packages, financial statements, balance sheet reconciliations, and variance analyses • Monitor portfolio-wide financial performance trends and communicate systemic issues, risks, and opportunities to the VP of Accounting • Serve as the corporate authority on GAAP, USALI standards, and applicable accounting regulations • Lead, coach, and develop all Regional Controllers through performance expectations, one-on-ones, reviews, and development plans • Drive cross-regional best-practice sharing and consistent process improvements • Partner with the VP of Accounting and Human Resources on hiring, onboarding, succession planning, and retention • Improve the enterprise-wide internal controls framework and conduct regular operational and property-level accounting audits • Identify control deficiencies and coordinate external audit engagements as the primary corporate contact • Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local tax obligations and oversee property-level tax filings • Partner with Operations leadership on annual budgets, forecasting, financial analysis, expense control, and performance commentary • Review budgets for accuracy, completeness, mapping, formatting, and internal consistency • Serve as a senior accounting contact for ownership groups, asset managers, and General Managers • Ensure management agreement and franchise agreement financial reporting obligations are met • Serve as a subject matter expert for M3, ProfitSword, NetSuite, Birchstreet, and Adra • Maintain the Accounting SOP manual and delegation of authority policy • Support process improvement and automation initiatives, system configurations, mappings, templates, and reporting outputs • Develop training materials and coordinate accounting systems and process training • Manage hotel transitions by onboarding new properties and leading accounting integration activities

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required • Minimum of 10 years of progressive accounting experience • At least 3–5 years in a multi-property hospitality accounting leadership role • Prior experience as a Regional Controller or equivalent multi-property accounting leadership role required • Deep expertise in GAAP, USALI, and hospitality financial reporting and compliance standards • Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and hold accountable geographically dispersed accounting leaders • Proven experience owning and improving an enterprise-wide internal controls environment • Strong consolidated financial reporting, budget oversight, and variance analysis skills across a large multi-property portfolio • Proficiency in M3, ProfitSword, NetSuite, Birchstreet, Adra, or equivalent hotel accounting platforms • Strong executive communication skills for senior leadership, ownership groups, and external auditors • High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint • Willingness to travel to regional offices and properties as needed • Up to 35% travel required • Third-party hotel management company experience strongly preferred • Master’s degree or CPA designation strongly preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Health, vision, and dental insurance • 401(k) • Cell phone allowance • Vacation • Paid Holidays • Sabbatical • Discount programs for shopping, travel, tickets and more