Responsibilities
Financial Control & Oversight:
- Monitor daily revenue from rooms, restaurants, bars, spa, events, and other outlets
- Ensure proper cash handling procedures and reconcile cash, POS, and bank records
- Review and approve expenditures in line with approved budgets
- Detect and prevent fraud, theft, or financial misstatements.
Internal Audit Functions:
- Conduct regular audits of departments (front office, F&B, housekeeping, stores, maintenance)
- Verify accuracy of financial records, invoices, and payroll
- Audit inventory of food, beverages, linens, amenities, and fixed assets
- Ensure segregation of duties to reduce risk of error or fraud.
Compliance & Policy Enforcement:
- Ensure adherence to company policies, SOPs, and management directives
- Confirm compliance with tax laws, labor laws, health and safety regulations, and licensing requirements
- Monitor compliance with procurement and contract procedures.
Inventory & Asset Management:
- Oversee stock control systems for food, beverages, and supplies
- Monitor usage, wastage, pilferage, and stock variances
- Maintain asset registers for furniture, equipment, vehicles, and IT systems.
Budgeting & Cost Control:
- Support preparation and monitoring of departmental budgets
- Analyze variances between actual and budgeted costs
- Recommend cost-saving and efficiency improvement measures.
Risk Management:
- Identify financial and operational risks within resort operations
- Recommend controls to minimize losses, accidents, or service disruptions
- Review insurance coverage and claims documentation.
Reporting & Management Support:
- Prepare internal control and audit reports for management
- Provide recommendations for process improvement
- Support management decision-making with accurate financial insights.
Revenue Assurance:
- Ensure all services rendered are properly billed and recorded
- Monitor discounts, complimentary services, and promotional offers
- Review room occupancy reports against revenue posted.
Staff Training & Awareness:
- Train staff on internal control procedures and ethical practices
- Promote accountability and transparency across departments.
Continuous Improvement:
- Review and update internal control systems to match operational changes
- Implement best practices in hospitality financial management.
Other Responsibilities
Here are the key roles expected of an Internal Controller in a resort centre, clearly stated and suitable for a job description, policy manual, or organizational chart:
Safeguarding Resort Assets:
- Protect cash, inventory, equipment, and property from loss, theft, or misuse
- Ensure proper authorization and documentation for all transactions.
Revenue Monitoring & Assurance:
- Ensure all resort income (rooms, food & beverage, spa, events, rentals) is accurately recorded
- Review daily sales summaries, POS reports, and night audit reports
- Monitor discounts, complimentary services, and voids.
Financial Accuracy & Integrity:
- Ensure accounting records are accurate, complete, and timely
- Review invoices, payments, payroll, and financial statements
- Support external audits and management reviews.
Internal Audit & Control Enforcement:
- Conduct routine and surprise checks across all departments
- Enforce internal control procedures and standard operating processes
- Ensure segregation of duties to minimize fraud risk.
Cost & Expense Control:
- Monitor operational costs and prevent waste or overspending
- Analyze cost variances and recommend corrective actions
- Ensure procurement follows approved budgets and procedures.
Inventory & Stock Control:
- Oversee stock counts for food, beverages, consumables, and stores
- Investigate discrepancies, shortages, and spoilage
- Monitor stock issuance and usage patterns.
Compliance & Risk Management:
- Ensure compliance with tax, labor, safety, and hospitality regulations
- Identify operational and financial risks and recommend mitigation measures
- Ensure licenses, permits, and insurance policies are valid.
Policy Development & Improvement:
- Assist in developing internal control policies and procedures
- Recommend system and process improvements to management
- Ensure controls adapt to operational changes within the resort.
Reporting to Management:
- Prepare internal control, audit, and risk assessment reports
- Communicate findings, weaknesses, and recommendations clearly
- Provide management with actionable insights for decision-making.
Staff Guidance & Ethical Oversight:
- Educate staff on control procedures and ethical standards
- Promote transparency, accountability, and integrity
- Handle whistleblowing issues and investigate irregularities.
Requirements
- Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree with 5 - 7 years of experience.
Salary
N300,000 / month.
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