Senior Accountant Job Orlando area,Florida USA,Accounting

About Tavistock US

Tavistock US is the shared services platform supporting a diverse portfolio of businesses across hospitality, real estate development, investments, and corporate operations. Headquartered in the innovative Lake Nona community in Orlando, Florida, our teams provide strategic and operational support to a growing collection of award-winning restaurants, hotels, commercial developments, and master-planned communities.

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Driven by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and exceptional experiences, Tavistock US partners closely with business leaders across the organization to deliver technology, finance, human resources, marketing, legal, and operational services that enable our businesses to thrive. Whether supporting a Michelin-recognized restaurant, a luxury hospitality destination, or one of the nation’s premier master-planned communities, our employees play a meaningful role in shaping experiences that have lasting impact.

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Role Overview

The Senior Accountant supports the day-to-day operational accounting functions for Tavistock's hospitality portfolio, including restaurants and hotels. The role is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of daily sales, cash, banking, receivables, and treasury activity, while maintaining strong internal controls over revenue, deposits, chargebacks, gift cards, payroll interfaces, and tax-related processes. This position also plays a key role in the full-cycle month-end close and financial review process by preparing and reconciling accounts, supporting journal entries and close deliverables, and reviewing P&Ls to identify and resolve unusual variances

Specific Duties And Responsibilities

Reconcile revenues daily from POS and event systems for restaurants and hotels.
Review and adjust transactions not entered correctly, including voids, comps, discounts, tips, and allocations.
Prepare and review daily bank account reconciliations for all assigned entities.
Ensure credit card, third-party delivery (e.g., Door Dash, Uber Eats), and in-house account transactions are correctly deposited and recorded.
Research and resolve variances between settlement files, bank deposits, and POS data.
Manage and track chargebacks, coordinate dispute responses, and document outcomes.
Monitor cash handling procedures at property level (cash drops, safe counts, bank deposits).
Identify and investigate cash shortages, overages, and unusual patterns, escalating issues when necessary.
Support development and reinforcement of cash-handling policies, training, and loss-prevention controls.
Prepare sales and use tax work papers and returns for FL, MA, NV, and GA
Create and issue AR invoices for events, group business, memberships, corporate accounts, and other billable items.
Track AR aging, follow up on past-due balances, and coordinate collections with operations and sales teams.
Reconcile AR sub-ledger to the general ledger and support bad-debt analysis.
Prepare and distribute daily sales and key metrics reports to operations and leadership.
Integrate payroll entries into the general ledger and reconcile payroll reports to accounting records.
Prepare treasury reporting, including cash position summaries and bank activity reports
Assist with positive pay exception review and resolution to protect against fraudulent checks.
Reconcile gift card activity (sales, redemptions, breakage) to POS, third-party processors, and general ledger.
Work closely with the event team to confirm deposits and final payments are collected per contracts.
Reconcile event revenue and related deposits to bank, AR, and POS records.
Assist with the full-cycle month-end close process
Prepare and post journal entries, reconcile balance sheet accounts, and…