Christoforos Matsagkanis

Involved in the development of LUURA, a new hospitality brand under Morgans Originals, part of the Ennismore group, in collaboration with Vivium. Supporting the financial planning and organizational strategy for LUURA — a brand shaped by intentional design, meaningful storytelling, and immersive guest experiences.

-Centralized Financial Management: Part of a growing group of 5-star hotels, centralizing the financial department across all properties to streamline processes and ensure consistency. - Restructuring the Group Financial Department: Collaborating with the Director of Finance (DOF) to restructure and optimize the Group Financial Department, ensuring alignment across all properties. - E-Invoicing and Compliance: Managed the implementation of e-invoicing obligations between ERP and PMS systems, ensuring comp

- Creating and restructuring the Financial Departments in the regional properties - Implementation of USALI standards throughout the properties' structure and training management teams in the understanding and on day-to-day basis use. - Setting up and mapping new ERP and PMS systems to meet the country’s GAAP and tax requirements (Unifying databases, CoAs and Cost center accounting) - Responsible for Regional Accountancy policies - Responsible for Regional treasury (signatory rights) - Responsible for se

- Re-designing the Financial Department through the COVID19 era - Resolving and taking critical decisions on resolving financial situations - Handling all Internal and External auditors issues - Coordination of all external and internal teams to make changes and transitions a success - Implementing all Uniform System of Accounts for the Hospitality as per Melia Hotels International standards. - Creating adhoc reporting in order strategical decisions to be made, regarding the repositioning and direction of

- Creating and setting up the Financial Department - Resolving and taking critical decisions on resolving very troubled financial situations - Handling all Internal and External auditor issues - Coordination of all external and internal teams to make changes and transitions a success - Payroll setup and implementation of all local Greek hospitality laws and regulations - Major transition to HR hospitality standards as seen in all major hotel chains - Implementation of all IFRS standards as per the policies

- Managing a team of seven (7) including Payroll, Accounts Payable, General Cashier/Income auditor, Accounts Receivables, Cost control and Purchasing. - Coordinating accounting data from multiple locations, supervising daily work flow including AP, AR and cash receipts. Authorizing exception items and creating GL entries. - Overseeing day-to-day and month-end accounting department operations performing monthly closing process, including balancing of books, account reviews, inter-company transactions and

- Hired as a Night Auditor for the whole Resort (2 hotels and 10 outlets), which was a new project for the Resort. Sorting all financial issues that arose during the day regarding all outlet cashier and reception closings - Member of the HACCP executive committee of the Resort - Examined that all charges of Room nights( for over 300 rooms/per night), Group and Events functions and outlets were charged accordingly - Verifying that all Outlet Operational software’s (Micros, Atlantis, VLC, Tiger) were working

Worked in the Food and Beverage Management Department as a manager assistant conducting sales histories for all the outlets of the Resort for that year. This was a prototype project for the F&B department which was done in cooperation with the Financial Services Department and was very successful. Also, conducted inventories and helped in creating an annual budget of the department for the next year. Finally, worked on numerous other aspects within the department in order to create a healthier and more prod

Worked in the Food and Beverage Management Department as a manager assistant conducting sales histories for all the outlets of the Resort for that year. This was a prototype project for the F&B department which was done in cooperation with the Financial Services Department and was very successful. Also, conducted inventories and helped in creating an annual budget of the department for the next year. Finally, worked on numerous other aspects within the department in order to create a healthier and more prod