Assistant Manager - DSCoE

Job description

Description

About us

·  Provide day to day decision support activities to the CoE Overheads team and relevant Finance business partners, incl. supporting first round of budgeting and forecasting, and management reporting and analysis for Overheads across the business.
·  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 external audit queries.
Your day to day

Key Metrics

Organisational parameters

As defined by the Service Management Framework. The core metrics will focus on customer, process, continuous improvement and financial.

•Understanding of IHG’s cost centres structure, controllable costs and impact of reorganisations.

•Understanding of IHG's 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 CoE Overheads team and relevant Finance business partners, and to effectively collaborate with Finance teams across the globe.

•Ability to challenge processes and identify opportunities for improvement.

What we need from you

Owns

·  N/A

Influences

·  Presents insight to focus attention on key performance areas in support of decision making.

Suggests changes to cost centre structures to drive simplicity and effectiveness of overheads management and inputs into other process improvement initiatives

What we offer

Key Collaboration Network / Collaboration

Key shared accountabilities

Key interfaces

•As defined by the Service Management Framework.

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Critical Knowledge and Experience

•Finance or business-related education. Preferably working towards professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).

•Preferably, experience as a finance analyst with a general interest in the hospitality industry, incl. experience with planning, budgeting and forecasting and reporting processes, project expenditure tracking and control, allocations and management of central costs, scenario analysis and modelling skills.

•Advanced user of Oracle, Essbase, reporting tools, Excel, PowerPoint.

•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.