Job Responsibilities:
Property Overview: Chandigarh is categorized as a city hotel within The LaLiT portfolio. A controller role here would oversee the overall hotel financial function—though there may be internal units (e.g., rooms division) comprising approximately 179 rooms, aligning with the number you mentioned.
Job Description:
- verse day-to-day finance and accounting operations within assigned unit or full property
- Manage budgeting, forecasting, cash flow projections, and analysis
- Regular variance reporting comparing actuals vs budget, with insights and actionable recommendations
- Implement and review internal controls, audit procedures, and ensure compliance with financial policies
- Design and maintain MIS and financial reporting systems for operational and executive use
- Manage payables/receivables, guest ledger, city ledger, debt collection, invoices, purchase orders, and reconciliations
- Conduct cash and income audits, detect variances, and perform modal adjustments/write-off reporting
- Support payroll tracking and submission
- Lead internal and external audit coordination
- Be responsible for contracts, leases, capex compliance, and statutory obligations (TDS/GST, etc.)
- Ideally a Chartered Accountant (CA) or equivalent.
- 18+ years’ experience in hospitality finance.
- Strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cash flow management, and MIS
- Proficiency with ERP/accounting systems (e.g., Opera, SAP, Sun, Micros) preferred
- Leadership capabilities, including training and supervising finance staff and coordinating with department heads
- Excellent communication, numerical, and analytical skills
- Ability to work accurately under pressure and with attention to detail
Email CV to: pratishtha.saxena@thelalit.com, aman.gupta@thelalit.com
