Job Description

About us

IHG is one of the world’s leading hotel companies, promising to provide True Hospitality for everyone; making you feel welcome and cared for, recognized and respected, wherever you are in the world. Strong future plans and recent successes, especially across the luxury space is what has made us stand out from the crowd.
Join us and not only can you benefit from the world of variety and opportunity, you can also look forward to being part of a company that will appreciate you for simply being you. At IHG we celebrate our differences, and we believe everyone has something unique to bring to each team.
IHG is an equal opportunity employer, employing people based solely on their skills and qualifications. Discrimination based on race, colour, ethnic or national origin, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any protected category is banned in our policies.
At IHG, we understand the importance of operating responsibly and sustainably – it is absolutely core to our business and culture. In recent years, we have made important progress in targeting operational, people-led and environmental issues most material to us and our stakeholders, broadening our focus and our impact as part of our promise to provide True Hospitality for Good. We are proud of our progress on what is a journey towards making an increasingly positive difference to our people, communities and the world around us.
Your day to day
Purpose of the role:
The role is to support management and drive financial process effectively for the assigned role and be a solution provider to team.
Key Accountabilities:

• Responsible for delivery and supervision of the day-to-day operations
• Support various accounting, reportingand tax initiatives across finance function.
• Ensure adequate compliance support to avoidany risk by proactive validationand checks in process

Key Metrics:

• Process: Responsible for review of reports and/or financial statements such as trends, balance sheet account reconciliations, schedules etc.
• Compliance: Ensure accounts are compliant to regulatory/ group requirements and adequate documentation,
• Efficiency: Proactively identify and implement process improvements in consultation with supervisor.
• Team: Manage team at sub process level including hiring, training and reviewing.

What we need from you
Key Shared Accountabilities:

• Financial reviewers/approvers
• Branches/Satellite Offices
• Third Party service providers

Key Interfaces:
Key Internal Relationships –

• This position serves as primary contact for day- to-day operations.
• Financial Reporting
• COE and FP&A
• FBP and Business Support
• Tax team
• Compliance teams – SOX, G&C
• GBSC Teams
• Global Technology
• Management Information Delivery
• HR team based in Gurgaon, Onshore

Key External Relationships –

• Statutory and tax auditors
• Consultants
• Banks

Organizational Parameters:
Direct Supervisor

• Sr Manager/ Manager – Global Accounting and Analytics

Direct Reports / Indirect Reports

• Direct: 2 – 4
• Indirect: 0 – 6

What we need from you
Required Education, Experience, Technical Skills and Knowledge:
Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work- related experience.
• Major accounting qualification such as CA/CMA/CS preferred

Experience

• 6+ year of progressive work-related experience in accounting and finance
• 1+ year of demonstrated experience of people management.

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Sound communication skills: verbal and written.
• Expert Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles / IFRS / Local GAAP
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of PeopleSoft/Essbase or other enterprise financial systems and Microsoft Office.
• Sound understanding of the key policies impacting the process.
• Sound clarity on Controls applicable to process
• Ability to guide team by providing effective solutions through expert knowledge.

Decision Rights:
Owns
Decision Making Responsibilities (Decision Rights)

• Accountable for service delivery in process – quality, efficiency, effectiveness, internal controls, risk and customer experience
• Takes logical decisions quickly, dynamic to meet changing expectation and flexible to situation.

Influences

• Project Management
• GBSC delivery
• System Teams-GT/MID/Others
• COE, IDT, FBP

Job Reference: EMEAA36743