Assistant Financial Controller - Strand Palace Hotel - 372 Strand, London UK
(2025-02)
As an Assistant Financial Controller, I am managing and supervising the team – Income Audit, AR, AP and Payroll functions, Assisting the Financial Controller and GM by leading the financial operations at the hotel level.
- Managing daily accounting operations, month-end closing, financial reporting, and internal controls. Liaising with Internal and external auditors for Annual Audit procedures.
- Leading and delivering monthly management accounts, including journals, accruals, Prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Ensuring statutory/tax compliance, Processing VAT returns on a quarterly basis.
- Managing cash flow, Forecasting reports. Assisting Financial controller in building Budget and KPI reports.
- Overseeing Income Audit, AP/AR functions. Providing regular trainings and building on SOPs to improve financial procedures, transparency and accountability between Finance and operations teams.
- Managing the CAPEX/FFE costs, building monthly reports to manage the Capex projects and its ROI value.
- Supported Group directors for successful transformation in cloud based EPM systems - INFOR and OPERA migration. Making sure that the account codes are mapped correctly and the financial data is flowing between SAP to EPM systems.
- Supervising Payroll supervisor in building Payroll Analysis reports, supporting/nudging HODs to manage the payroll cost within the budgeted KPI targets.
Assistant Financial Controller - Dalata Hotel Group - Finsbury Park, London UK
(2023-11 - 2025-02)
As an Assistant Financial Controller, I ensured accurate reporting of the financial reports and metrics, supporting the Cluster Financial Controller and the HODs by leading the daily financial operations of the hotel.
- Being the first point of contact for Finance related queries in the hotel, I have been running daily the financial operations of the hotel and weekly P&L Forecasting.
- Supporting The Cluster Financial Controller with weekly forecasting of rooms and F&B revenue, EBITDAR figures, and ensuring the accurate and timely Flash and P&L reports are submitted.
- Assisting the Cluster FC with month end procedures – accruals, prepayments, balance sheet reconciliation.
- Preparing daily sales KPI report for issuance to individual departments, controlling the banking function, maintaining daily income audit.
- Managing Account receivable and Account Payable functions, safeguarding the assets of hotel with special emphasis on sound internal financial control system.
Assistant Financial Controller - Edwardian Hotels London - Marble Arch, London UK
(2023-10 - 2023-11)
- Assisting the Cluster Financial Controller in reconciling the daily revenue, banking, managing the accounts to the highest standards by reconciling all the variances.
- Auditing other hotels of the group and supporting the team to improve the accounting process and financial health of the company.
- Ensuring accurate and timely end of month, stock take and accounting process.
- Escalating any issues and concerns to the HOD meeting and maintaining daily revenue reports.
- Completed "back to work project", created a dashboard for Utilities for the hotel on Power BI, which helped our operations and Finance Team with a more clear and concise visibility in the Utilities cost and its consumptions trends against occupancy over the period.
Senior Finance Assistant - Edwardian Hotels London - Heathrow, UK
(2022-10 - 2023-09)
As a Finance Assistant, I ensured timely and accurate financial accounting and provide key support to the Financial Controller in revenue reconciliation, Revenue Variance investigation, cost controlling, and daily auditing.
- Daily Revenue reconciliation and analysis, Inputting and retrieving financial entries from Oracle, Micros, and Elavon databases accurately and promptly.
- Liaising with the operations Team, supporting with key financial data and resources to improve cost efficiency.
- Managing purchase ledger responsibilities including administering and coding invoices.
- Maintaining confidential data and documents regarding credit card payments, including banking information.
- Responding to queries related to operations team and chargebacks with detailed financial information to defend the financial health of the hotel.
- Escalating any issues to the Financial Controller's meetings and maintaining weekly meeting's reports.
Thrive Project Presentation - Edwardian Academy - Heathrow, UK
(2023-05 - 2023-09)
- Created the Dashboard for Utilities cost on Power BI, for cost analysis and better understanding and visualisation of the consumption patterns over the months from Jan2023-August2023.
- Presented a PowerPoint presentation on the dashboard, to analyse actual costs and accruals for electricity, gas, and water.
- The Data model was setup to showcase the comparison of actual costs versus budget, graphical representation of consumption patterns against the occupancy was highlighted.
- The dashboard provided key interesting facts with regards to the consumption patterns, actual cost incurred per unit consumed for electricity and gas.
- The back to work project helped the finance team to investigate major anomalies and chart out innovative ways to reduce/control the utilities costs.
Restaurant Waitress (Part Time) - Royal Opera House - London, UK
(2021-10 - 2022-08)
- Work as a committed team member to provide best hospitality to guests by bringing forth a welcoming and energetic spirit.
- Prime contact to manage and resolve the escalations in complaints made by the guests. Utilizing excellent multitasking skills to achieve optimum guest service.
- Stayed up to date in restaurant's product range, preparation methods, including dish ingredients, allergens, and daily specials to efficiently answer customer queries.
NatWest Business and Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship, Climate Hackathon - Cranfield University - Cranfield, UK
(2020-09 - 2021-10)
- Won Climate Hackathon hosted by NatWest Business and Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship for providing viable business solutions to counter unsustainable food consumption patterns of the students studying in UK's Universities by growing veggies through hydroponic technology.
- Built prototype and the MVP of Hydroponic Kit to grow herbs in the kitchen and marketed the product in the university campus through social media channels and followed up on the feedback received from the users through online survey.
- Responsible for Budgeting and Auditing, Cost Management, Financial Forecasting, Valuation, and financial modelling of the start-up; Prepared go-to-Market plan and Financial Forecasts to pitch against the investors.
Sustainable Investing Challenge 2021 - Kellogg-Morgan Stanley
(2021-01 - 2021-12)
- Designed prospectus on countering Plastic Waste challenge through financial tools and techniques.
- Researched extensively on pyrolysis technology and various Financing routes to secure funding for Series A and B ranging Start-ups.
- Formulated SPV (special Purpose Vehicle) called "Plastophilic Fund", combination of ESG Fund portfolio and Plastic Credit exchange. Responsible for defining and analyse factors influencing the valuation of Plastic Credit.
Academic Tutor - Self-employed - Jammu, India
(2015-07 - 2020-02)
- Taught English and Mathematics to the underprivileged children within our local community leading them to achieve A Grades in their finals.
- Taught Chemistry and Mathematics privately to the students of GCSE levels leading them to achieve a minimum score of 80%.
- Extensive use of time management skills in running several classes on time at several locations, ensuring that each student understands the concept completely in each class.
