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Bringing True Hospitality to the world.
We want to welcome you to a world of bringing True Hospitality to everyone. When you join us at IHG®, you become part of our global family. A welcoming culture of warmth, honesty, and a passion for providing True Hospitality.
We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing the individual contribution you make and supporting your ambition to learn and create your own career path. In making a difference to our guests and owners, colleagues and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences, in your own way.
With over 370,000 colleagues in nearly 100 countries sharing our values, there’s countless opportunities at your fingertips.
We’re growing; grow with us.
This role will be the Finance Business Partner for the VP Extended Stay (600+ hotels) and IHG Army Hotels (40). Provide strong financial leadership to drive hotel performance in both revenue and profitability, and ensure sound governance and controls. Responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and performance reviews of assigned portfolios, and partner with Operations to manage owner relations for key hotels and hotel portfolios. Lead a direct team of six that supports field based Operations teams for both managed & franchise hotels.
Responsibilities
- Drive operational performance in the Extended Stay and IHG Army estate in line with targets through strong financial leadership
- Execute the delivery of Extended Stay and IHG Army Hotels Operations strategy through strong financial oversight, ensuring funds and resources are deployed effectively to drive required results
- Deliver hotel forecasts and budgets and monitor performance through benchmarking, performance reviews and analysis. Develop action plans in conjunction with operations leadership to maximize returns.
- Define the delivery of IHG Army Finance strategies
- Deliver financial analysis to shape key business decisions, investments, and strategic projects
- Deliver sound governance and controls, ensuring SOX compliance and clean audit(s)
- Shape and enable the delivery of Americas Finance strategy through strong functional leadership
- Recruit, lead, and develop a high performing team of Finance Business Partners
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in business, finance or related field required. Master’s Degree or equivalent work experience in business, finance or related field preferred
- 10+ years of experience in Finance or related fields
Technical Knowledge and Experience
- Hotel operations Finance experience, with preference for operations, food & beverage, hospitality experience
- Experience leading cross-functional teams, driving strategic change, and challenging & communicating with senior leadership in a complex matrix organization
- Strong strategic, analytical, and influencing skills to sustain high impact relationships with key stakeholders for delivery of results
- Ability to effectively balance delivery of short term results with stewardship of the business and sustaining longer term competitive advantage
- Deep understanding of hotel operations and hospitality accounting
- Ability to see connections between financial levers, anticipate unintended consequences and spot operational opportunities
- Able to drive complex system process and cultural change
- Strong negotiation skills
We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including great room discount and superb training.
Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve – click here to find out more about us.
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