Lead Accountant POST NUMBER: 458270

New York, NY, US On-Site
Accommodation and Food Services
Vaco
$ 80000.00 - 90000.00 yearly
direct hire
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Lead Accountant – Hospitality | New York

On behalf of our client, a leading hospitality brand, we’re seeking a Lead Accountant to join the Finance team in New York. Reporting to the Head of Finance, this role ensures accuracy, efficiency, and strong financial controls across supplier payments, revenue reconciliations, and broader financial operations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Oversee supplier payments, reconciliations, and AR/guest ledgers.

  • Manage daily invoicing, commissions, intercompany billing, and financial reporting.

  • Perform weekly and monthly reconciliations, including balance sheet reviews.

  • Partner with internal departments to maintain financial accuracy and compliance.

Qualifications & Skills:

  • Strong grasp of double-entry accounting, accruals, and prepayments.

  • Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office skills.

  • Experience with hospitality finance systems (Opera, Toast, Craftable, M3, Paycom preferred).

  • 5 years accounting experience with a track record of meeting deadlines.

  • Organised, proactive, and highly numerate.

This is an opportunity to step into a lead role within a fast-paced hospitality environment, ensuring operational excellence and contributing directly to the bottom line.

Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

EEO Notice

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

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Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

  • the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
  • licensure and certification requirements;
  • office location and other geographic considerations;
  • other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.

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