Hard Rock Hotel - Financial controller

Are you a strategic and detail-driven finance leader with a passion for driving performance and supporting growth?

Hard Rock Hotel Malta, a leading name in hospitality and leisure, is looking for a Financial Controller specialist to join our finance team and support our top hotels and vibrant restaurant brands across the island.

💼 Your Role:

As Financial Controller, you will play a key role in supporting decision-making, ensuring financial compliance, and leading your team to deliver accurate and timely financial reporting across the group’s diverse business units.

You’ll collaborate closely with Department Heads, Senior Management, and the Group CFO to maintain a strong financial backbone for our hotels, restaurants, and retail operations.

🚀 Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare accurate monthly management accounts to support performance reviews.
• Lead the annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting.
• Develop cash flow statements and financial reports as required.
• Submit timely and accurate VAT returns.
• Conduct financial analysis for new and ongoing business opportunities.
• Oversee and strengthen internal financial control processes.
• Act as primary contact for external auditors during statutory audits.
• Monitor debtors and credit control procedures, reporting regularly to the Group CFO.
• Support and supervise accounts staff in managing daily cash settlements and receivables.
• Ensure compliance with group policies, accounting standards, and fiscal regulations.
• Propose and implement finance policies and process improvements.
• Mentor and develop the finance team in line with db Group values.

✅ What We’re Looking For:

• ACCA qualification or equivalent (mandatory)
• Proven experience in a similar role, ideally in hospitality or multi-entity operations
• Excellent command of Excel, Word, and other MS Office tools
• Experience with accounting software and ERP systems (an asset)
• Strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills
• High level of accuracy, organisation, and initiative
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative environment

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of financial regulations in the EU, with knowledge of Maltese compliance requirements preferred.

📩 Ready to take your career to the next level?

Apply now and become part of Malta’s most respected hospitality group.

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We look forward to meeting you!

About Us

The db Group has grown from a family-run business into Malta’s foremost corporate player in the tourism, hospitality & leisure sector, and beyond. In the 1980s, Silvio Debono, the Group’s founder, operated a small guesthouse. Today, as db Group Chairman, he sits at the helm of the largest operation in Malta.Over the last four decades the Group has forged strategic relationships with a range of global players including Hard Rock Café International, Starbucks, the Accor Hotel Group, and RIU Hotels & Resorts.As a result, we accumulated invaluable business acumen and operational experience. This track record has enabled us to establish our very own unique brand, db Hotels + Resorts, driven by the fundamental principle of excellence in everything we do. Year-on-year, the Group won a number of prestigious global awards, positioning it at the forefront of the Maltese hospitality and catering industry.In due course, and prudently, the Group diversified its core operations, taking in contract catering, healthcare, and property development under its wing.