Specialist Financial Planning & Analysis

Job description

**Role Purpose** Deliver financial insight to support the DS FP&A and Finance business partners in driving performance and value to IHG. **Key Accountabilities** - Provide decision support activities to the respective DS team, including supporting first round of budgeting and forecasting, and management reporting for - System size and pipeline, Corporate and Hotels results. - Create and maintain dashboards and standard packs. - Support DS month end close activities including but not limited to the raising of journal requests. - Populate standard reports with data, and consolidation of sub-sets. - Flexible to provide ad-hoc reports and analysis as required. - Identify process improvement opportunities and support the delivery of improvements in processes, systems and procedures. - Build and maintain strong relationships within the DS and collaborate to deliver high-quality outputs. - Build and maintain strong relationships with other teams, being able to collaborate to resolve issues quickly and effectively. - Ensure documentation of relevant processes is created and maintained. - Contribute to management reporting through maintenance of data logs. - Support audit queries. **Key Skills & Experiences** - Finance or business-related education preferably CA (I)/CWA (I) or equivalent such as MBA in Finance with at least 2 years of experience in a similar role. - Some experience as a finance analyst is desired, including experience with operational planning, budgeting and forecasting processes, management reporting. - Advanced user of Oracle, Essbase, reporting tools, Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot - Ability to prioritize 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, collaborative and problem solving skills. 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.