Role Purpose
Deliver financial insight to support the DS Hotels function and Finance Business Partners in driving performance and value to IHG.
Key Accountabilities
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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
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Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards and reporting packs to ensure clear, meaningful insights..
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Populate and consolidate standard reports, including preparation of accurate data sets and insightful commentary
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Provide ad-hoc reports and analysis, incl. scenario modelling to support decision making with minimal supervision.
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Identify process improvement opportunities and support the delivery of improvements in processes, systems, controls and procedures.
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Build strong relationships with the UK DS and FBPs and collaborate to deliver high quality outputs.
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Foster effective collaboration within GSC, ensuring issues are resolved quickly and effectively.
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Ensure that the documentation of relevant processes is created and maintained.
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Open to seamlessly transitioning new tasks from the UK DS/FBPs, and promptly delivering them with precision and adherence to timelines
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Leverage strong storytelling capabilities to communicate insights, trends, risks, and opportunities, enabling informed strategic decision-making and in a timely manner
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Monitor key hotel performance indicators and proactively highlight variances against targets.
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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
Skills & Experiences
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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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