About Westgate Lakes Resort & Spa:
The beautiful lakefront Westgate Lakes Resort & Spa offers you the perfect opportunity to meet and share stories with guests who arrive from around the world to experience Central Florida’s world-famous theme parks and attractions. Enjoy the surroundings and excitement that our world-class resort offers when you join the Westgate Lakes team. Westgate meets every vacation expectation, for every family, for every budget. As we continue growing, we will continue offering the best and most affordable vacation options out there!

The Property Controller is directly responsible for all accounting functions for resort operations, F&B, and retail (excluding S&M), safeguarding Company assets, seeking value and cost savings through observations, analyses, and enforcing Company policies. The Property Controller reports to and takes direction from Corporate Accounting in Orlando, with a strong dotted line responsibility to the resort General Manager and F&B Manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Daily:

• Support, guide, & challenge resort leadership.
• Ensure accuracy and distribution of daily reports.
• Ensure balance cash/credit card bank deposits to the front desk and F&B/retail point of sale transactions.
• Ensures cash is safeguarded and deposits are dropped timely to armored card service.
• Participate in daily operations directors’ staff meetings.
• Safeguard company assets by assuring income audit addresses all variances.
• Assist Rental Issues (come from rental issues email address) with deposit transfers, guest credits, or other issues that come up.
• Compliance with all company policies and procedures
• Always professionally represents Westgate Resorts.

Weekly:

• Distribute and ensure that resort management reviews and validates AP and Payroll expense distributions for accuracy.
• Review and approve the accuracy of weekly Rooms, Occupancy, and F&B flash reports for Corporate Accounting distribution.
• Assist resort management in analyzing labor standards and checkbook reports. 
• Provide Corporate Accounting with weekly Controllers Reports.
• Assist Group Sales Department with Billing and folio corrections.
• REN paperwork processing and REN tracking.
• Rental Revenue report checks and balances.
• Attend weekly Executive meetings.

Monthly:

• Shared responsibility with the Corporate Accounting team for month-end close.  Responsible for the accuracy and distribution of the monthly financial statements to resort management. 
• Review monthly P&L with resort leadership.
• Facilitate monthly critiques with department heads.
• Perform financial analysis and variance reporting by compiling business reasons for budget and cost standard variances after discussions with resort management for both operating and capital/reserve reporting.
• Maintain the general ledger and balance sheet account reconciliations preparation or review for assigned accounts in HOA, rental, and F&B companies.  Including the reconciliation of REN to Oracle GL.
• Safeguard company cash and assets by performing frequent, surprise front desk / F&B cashier bank audits.
• Review accounts receivable city ledger aging reports.  Assure all collection efforts are being enforced and address management concerning violations of company policy resulting in delinquent accounts.
• Assist in identifying cost savings between departments (IE: notating similar resources and providing info to department heads)
• Participate in month-end Inventories.
• Assist with reviewing areas of exposure (validity of contractor invoices, manual entry of tips and cross-check to POS, etc)
• Month end Checkbook review with leaders including Corp Accounting to ensure no surprises before preliminary financial reports are distributed.
• Develop basic financial analysis workshops for newly promoted leaders on how to analyze and interpret profit and loss statements to help them understand the financial implications and improve their decision-making skills.
• Handles billing and maintenance for the POA/HOA, Rental pools that Westgate is responsible for, and amenity Use Fees where applicable.
• Assist with updated forecasting of P&L for all entities based on historical data and current trend analysis.

Annual:

• Work closely with Resort Operations in preparing annual operating budgets for both the rooms division and F&B/Retail.
• Work closely with Resort Operations in preparing annual Capital / Reserve budgets.
• Compile approved budgets and footnotes into state-required HOA format for mailing to owners.
• Attend HOA annual and budget meetings along with providing GM with accounting material pertinent to the meeting.
• Assist with annual certified HOA audits.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
The Property Controller is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of three (3) team members. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include hiring, and training property accounting staff; planning, assigning, and directing work; rewarding and disciplining team members; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Accounting plus seven to ten years of related experience,education and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Why Westgate?

• Comprehensive health benefits – medical, dental and vision
• Paid Time Off (PTO) – vacation, sick, and personal
• Paid Holidays
• 401K with generous company match
• Get access to your pay as you need it with our Daily Pay benefit
• Family benefits including pregnancy, and parental leave and adoption assistance
• Wellness Programs
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Tuition Assistance
• Military Leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Life, Disability, Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Exclusive discounts for Team Member (i.e., hotels, cruise, resorts, restaurants, entertainment, etc.) 
• Advancement & development opportunities
• Community Involvement Programs

Westgate Resorts is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected status under federal, state or local law. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to complete your application or any part of the recruiting process, please email [email protected] with the job title and the location of the position for which you are applying.