Manager, Finance Business Partner (AMER Development) at IHG in Atlanta, Georgia

Job Description:

About us

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.

Your day to day

In this role you will enable growth by engaging with the Americas Development team and providing financial leadership through business stewardship, support, and challenge.  You will also conduct analysis and provide insights regarding the Americas development pipeline of primarily franchised hotels, which is critical to the company’s future.

• Enhance commercial acumen by proactively engaging with business counterparts to understand business drivers and industry / competitive challenges


• Identify improvement opportunities by benchmarking performance within / across regions and peers


• Support the multi-year strategic planning and budget process and quarterly forecast review process


• Review monthly / quarterly financial performance reports and commentary of high value business areas including transparency of risks and opportunities


• Create business cases to support strategic resource allocation


• Evaluate longer-term cost & revenue optimization opportunities


• Perform tactical interventions with the business to close gaps vs. plan and achieve project delivery

What we need from you

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 

Experience 

• Experienced business leader with at least 5 years of finance, strategy, and/or management consulting experience


• Experience leading cross-functional teams, driving change, and challenging & communicating with senior leadership in a complex matrix organization


• Analytical experience


• Ability to collaborate with senior executive and both on and off shore colleagues


• Experience within the hospitality industry


• Experience with unit growth 

Technical Skills & Knowledge 

• Financial Systems (e.g. Essbase)

What we offer

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.

IHG is an equal opportunity employer: Minorities / Females / Disabled / Veterans