Senior Accounting Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

About Tavistock US (TUS)

Tavistock US (TUS) is the corporate shared services arm of Tavistock Group, supporting a diverse portfolio of businesses across real estate development, hospitality, and operating assets. Based in Lake Nona (Orlando, FL), TUS partners closely with our affiliated divisions to provide enterprise-wide support in areas such as Finance & Accounting, HR/People Operations, Legal, IT, Marketing, and Procurement. Our team works in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with high visibility across the organization helping leaders execute on strategic priorities while building scalable systems and processes that serve the broader Tavistock portfolio.

As part of Tavistock’s shared service environment, this position is responsible for accounting oversight, governance, and reporting integrity across a portfolio of assets, including restaurants and hotels. This role serves as a partner to multiple areas including Asset Management, HR, Legal, IT, and external advisors, ensuring accurate financial reporting, disciplined budgeting, and audit readiness. Similar to a Director of Finance role in a hospitality company, the position combines hands-on technical accounting leadership with structured review governance and cross-functional collaboration. Acting as a senior reviewer and escalation point, the role ensures consistency with GAAP, internal standards, and management agreements. Success in this role requires strong judgment, operational awareness, and the ability to translate data into actionable insights for leadership.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own accounting oversight and reporting integrity for a portfolio of restaurants and hotels
• Lead month-end close governance, ensuring accurate, timely, and audit-ready financial statements, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
• Serve as the senior reviewer and escalation point for complex accounting matters, including misclassifications, clearing accounts, inventory issues, and non-routine transactions
• Lead annual budgeting and in-year forecasting processes in partnership with operations and asset leadership.
• Act as a partner to Operations, Asset Management, HR, Legal, IT, and executive leadership, providing insights to financial performance, KPIs, and operational support.
• Oversee third-party financial reporting, ensuring consistency with management agreements, internal standards, and reporting timelines.
• Coordinate audits, tax support, and external advisor requests, including preparation and review of PBC schedules and trial balances.
• Drive continuous improvement of accounting processes, systems, review workflows, and documentation standards.
• Lead, mentor, and develop accounting team members

• Minimum of 5 years of experience working for a full-service restaurant company and or hotel with F&B operations (food and alcohol) with multiple and geographically dispersed locations
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting (advanced degree or CPA a plus)
• Strong background, knowledge and experience with various external Accounting, Payroll, POS and Administrative software platforms (e.g. Great Plains, MRI, Paylocity, Paytronix, OpenTable, MICROS etc.)
• Experience assisting with financial strategy and managing in-house accounting functions through in-house dedicated staff
• High level of competence in Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Excellent critical decision making and financial analysis capability
• Detail oriented, and ability to tackle complex assignments across multiple departments