Assistant Manager, Global Hotel Reporting & Insights
Location: India, Haryana, Gurgaon
Hotel: 11th Floor, Building No. 10, Tower C, DLF Cyber City, DLF Phase II, Gurgaon 122002, India, 122002, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Job number: 166631
<div class='description'><p><strong>Role Purpose</strong></p><p><span lang="EN-GB">Deliver financial insight to support the DS Hotels function and Finance Business Partners in driving performance and value to IHG.</span></p><p><strong>Key Accountabilities</strong></p><ul style="padding-left: 24px;"><li><span lang="EN-GB">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</span></li><li>Develop, maintain, and enhance dashboards and reporting packs to ensure clear, meaningful insights.<span lang="EN-GB">.</span></li><li>Populate and consolidate standard reports, including preparation of accurate data sets and insightful commentary</li><li><span lang="EN-GB">Provide ad-hoc reports and analysis, incl. scenario modelling to support decision making with minimal supervision.</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">Identify process improvement opportunities and support the delivery of improvements in processes, systems, controls and procedures.</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">Build strong relationships with the UK DS and FBPs and collaborate to deliver high quality outputs.</span></li><li>Foster effective collaboration within GSC, ensuring issues are resolved <span lang="EN-GB">quickly and effectively.</span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">Ensure that the documentation of relevant processes is created and maintained.</span></li><li>Open to seamlessly transitioning new tasks from the UK DS/FBPs, and promptly delivering them with precision and adherence to timelines</li><li>Leverage strong storytelling capabilities to communicate insights, trends, risks, and opportunities, enabling informed strategic decision-making and in a timely manner </li><li>Monitor key hotel performance indicators and proactively highlight variances against targets.</li><li>Support ad hoc financial analysis and reporting requests from stakeholders</li></ul><p> </p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><strong>Key shared accountabilities</strong></span></p><ul style="padding-left: 24px;"><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Support leadership in fostering a high-performance culture, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring robust controls to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.</p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Manage strong relationships within the team to align efforts and deliver shared objectives effectively.</p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Ensure timely and accurate monthly closing of Financials</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Oversee the delivery of high-quality management reports.</p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Forecast/budget accuracy</span></p></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> </p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><strong>Key interfaces</strong></span></p><ul style="padding-left: 24px;"><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">UK and Mexico DS</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Finance Business Partners</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">BSC</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Data Solutions</span></p></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> </p><p><strong> Skills & Experiences</strong></p><ul><li>Preferably <span lang="EN-GB">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.</span></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Experience as a finance analyst is desired, including experience with operational planning, budgeting and forecasting processes, management reporting.</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Knowledge of Oracle, Excel, PowerPoint and reporting & Visualisation tools such as Smartview/ Essbase and Tableau</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Able to proactively and independently manage workload and work as a team player.</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Ability to prioritise and to operate effectively in a fast moving, global environment with tight deadlines. </span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail. Ability to identify opportunities for automation, </span>and streamline processes to enhance operational efficiency</p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Strong oral and written communication, interpersonal and problem-solving skills.</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Critical thinking and ability to connect and explain linkage between drivers and outputs.</span></p></li></ul><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> </p><p><span lang="EN-GB"><strong>Key Metrics & Organisational parameters</strong></span></p><ul style="padding-left: 24px;"><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Understanding of hotel operations and hospitality industry, incl. franchised and managed business models.</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Understanding of planning, budgeting and forecasting and management reporting processes. </span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">IHG’s financial systems knowledge and ability to access and interpret data.</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Responsive and customer focused approach in day-to-day activities.</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with respective DS team and to effectively collaborate with Finance and other teams across the globe.</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB">Ability to challenge processes and identify opportunities for improvement.</span></p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Proficiency in quickly grasping and excelling with new organizational systems, especially reporting tools</p></li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Demonstrate and champion IHG Growth behaviors and High-Performance Culture</p></li></ul></div>
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