Specialist Financial Planning & Analysis

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.