Grow your career as a Director – Financial Accounting within Apple Leisure Group Vacations, one of our 14 industry-leading brands. In this role, you’ll be responsible for leading Accounting compliance with Corporate Hyatt requirements (Reporting, SOX Controls, best practices) through coordination, rationalization and consolidation of Country Controller’s work and deliverables.

• Prepare internal and external US GAAP compliant Financial Statements (Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Cashflow) with commentary, providing insight over current operation and variance explanation to historic periods (monthly, quarterly or annually) and to budget & forecast in conjunction with FP&A, all within Hyatt’s month-end reporting timeframe.
• Oversee accounting record compliance (to Hyatt’s policies, US GAAP, local and tax regulatory requirements [including Electronic Accounting in Mexico] and SOX controls [around preparation, posting, archive, etc..]), ERP management (SAP best practices [i.e. open items, clearings, revaluations] and system effectiveness); and CoA Structure (account creation rationalization in coordination with Corporate, ensuring mapping across SAP, HFM and Electronic Accounting [in the case of Mexico]).
• Manage Blackline account reconciliation compliance with Public Company quality standards, Blackline best practices while being Big4 auditable (self explanatory to external parties).
• Lead SOX compliance across the company, acting as Compliance Officer, evaluating and monitoring control systems, improving and implementing new processes (innovation).
• Be a strategic Business Partner internally (to include providing recommendations, developing & monitoring KPIs to increase efficiency and improve control over the business, adhoc reporting to Business Leaders easing decision making process) and externally (operating commercial conditions in favour of both parties involved, i.e. payment term enforcement, billing, etc…).
• Provide Shared Services Center oversight (Receivables, Payables and Treasury), review and monitor Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance on deliverables (i.e. Blackline account recs preparation, accounting journals posting and clearing, ad-hoc reporting, etc..), activities and KPIs (DSO, DPO, agings, etc…).
• Lead Financial & Tax Audits, ensuring compliance while properly communicating and articulating relevant or material transactions to Senior Management and Corporate as needed.
• Hire, train and retain skilled accounting staff.
• Drive a Digital transformation agenda, where manual processes will irrevocably be replaced by automated ones, replacing manual input to the best of our ability.
• Streamline upward communication channels on relevant matters for SOX 302 Certification purposes.
• Demonstrate a commitment to ALG core values

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting (preferred), Business Management or Economics
• Masters in finance-related areas (preferred)
• +10 years of experience supervising a team of 3+
• +3 years at a US based organization
• Preferred Public Accountant certification
• Full proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (mostly, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook)
• Power BI (preferred)
• Oracle Hyperion (Financial Management and Planning)
• SAP S/4 HANA (preferred), Fiori (is a plus)
• Blackline (preferred)
• Ability and willingness to operate in a fast-paced, complex corporate environment
• Ability to travel as required (5-10%)
• Full fluency in English