Assistant Manager, Global Hotel Reporting & Insights

Job description

**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 Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today.