Role Purpose
Deliver financial insight to support the DS Hotels function and Finance Business Partners in driving performance and value to IHG.
Key Accountabilities
- Provide day to day decision support activities to the respective UK DS team and relevant Finance business partners, incl. supporting on budgeting and forecasting, management reporting and Hotel KPI analysis
- Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards and reporting packs to ensure clear, meaningful insights..
- Populate and consolidate standard reports, including preparation of accurate data sets and insightful commentary
- Provide ad-hoc reports and analysis, incl. scenario modelling to support decision making with minimal supervision.
- Identify process improvement opportunities and support the delivery of improvements in processes, systems, controls and procedures.
- Build strong relationships with the UK DS and FBPs and collaborate to deliver high quality outputs.
- Foster effective collaboration within GSC, ensuring issues are resolved quickly and effectively.
- Ensure that the documentation of relevant processes is created and maintained.
- Open to seamlessly transitioning new tasks from the UK DS/FBPs, and promptly delivering them with precision and adherence to timelines
- Leverage strong storytelling capabilities to communicate insights, trends, risks, and opportunities, enabling informed strategic decision-making and in a timely manner
- Monitor key hotel performance indicators and proactively highlight variances against targets.
- Support ad hoc financial analysis and reporting requests from stakeholders
Key Shared Accountabilities
- Support leadership in fostering a high-performance culture, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring robust controls to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.
- Manage strong relationships within the team to align efforts and deliver shared objectives effectively.
- Ensure timely and accurate monthly closing of Financials
- Oversee the delivery of high-quality management reports.
- Forecast/budget accuracy
Key interfaces
- UK and Mexico DS
- Finance Business Partners
- BSC
- Data Solutions
Skills & Experiences
- Preferably CA/CWA with more than 4 years of work experience in a similar role or CA (I)/CWA (I)/MBA in Finance with at least 6 years of work experience in a similar role.
- Experience as a finance analyst is desired, including experience with operational planning, budgeting and forecasting processes, management reporting.
- Knowledge of Oracle, Excel, PowerPoint and reporting & Visualisation tools such as Smartview/ Essbase and Tableau
- Able to proactively and independently manage workload and work as a team player.
- Ability to prioritise and to operate effectively in a fast moving, global environment with tight deadlines.
- Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail. Ability to identify opportunities for automation, and streamline processes to enhance operational efficiency
- Strong oral and written communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
- Critical thinking and ability to connect and explain linkage between drivers and outputs.
Key Metrics & Organisational parameters
- Understanding of hotel operations and hospitality industry, incl. franchised and managed business models.
- Understanding of planning, budgeting and forecasting and management reporting processes.
- IHG's financial systems knowledge and ability to access and interpret data.
- Responsive and customer focused approach in day-to-day activities.
- Ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with respective DS team and to effectively collaborate with Finance and other teams across the globe.
- Ability to challenge processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Proficiency in quickly grasping and excelling with new organizational systems, especially reporting tools
- Demonstrate and champion IHG Growth behaviors and High-Performance Culture
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