IHG Hotels & Resorts - Team Lead - Finance Planning & Analysis

Total Experience: 5-6 years (Including 1+ years in Team Handling)

Notice Period: 60 Days max

Role Purpose :

Deliver financial insight to support the CoE FP&A and Hotel Operations teams and Finance business partners in driving performance and value to IHG.

Key Accountabilities :

- Provide day to day decision support activities to the respective UK CoE team and relevant Finance business partners, incl. supporting first round of budgeting and forecasting, and management reporting and analysis for System size and pipeline, Corporate and Hotels results.

- Take the lead on CoE month-end close activities including but not limited to the raising of journal requests.

- Create and maintain dashboards and static packs.

- Populate standard reports with data, incl. consolidation of sub-sets and flash commentary.

- Flexible to provide ad-hoc reports and analysis, incl. scenario modelling to support decision making.

- Identify process improvement opportunities and support the delivery of improvements in processes, systems and procedures.

- Build strong relationships with the CoE and collaborate to deliver high quality outputs.

- Maintain strong relationship with BSC, being able to collaborate to resolve issues quickly and effectively.

- Ensure documentation of relevant processes is created and maintained.

- Support audit queries.

Key Skills & Experiences :

- Preferably CA/CWA with up to 3 years of work experience in a similar role or CA (I)/CWA (I)/MBA in Finance with at least 5 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.

- Advanced user of Oracle, reporting tools, Excel, PowerPoint.

- Expert knowledge of Essbase/Smart view,

- Experience of working in Hyperion and Think cell tool.

- Ability to prioritise and to operate effectively in a fast moving, global environment with tight deadlines.

- Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.

- Strong oral and written communication, interpersonal and problem solving skills.

- Critical thinking and ability to connect and explain linkage between drivers and outputs.