Assistant Manager, Global Hotel Reporting & Insights

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