**Key Accountabilities** • Project Leadership: Oversee the end-to-end delivery of diverse finance projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and managing varying levels of responsibility based on project scope. • Project Planning: Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, ensuring all milestones are met on schedule. • Progress Tracking: Monitor and report project progress to stakeholders and senior leadership (SVP/VP level), ensuring transparency and accountability. • Risk Management: Identify, assess, and manage issues and risks, escalating as necessary to business stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle. • Meeting Coordination: organize and facilitate project meetings, documenting minutes with clear action items and timelines for follow-up. • Process Improvement: Engage in shaping project outcomes by analyzing current processes (“As is”) and collaborating with teams to design optimized future processes (“to-be”) using ESSA principles (Eliminate, Simplify, Standardize, Automate). • Stakeholder Engagement: Present project updates to various stakeholder groups and governance meetings, ensuring alignment and support. • Best Practices: Adhere to the Process Excellence Delivery Framework, providing insights and guidance on project best practices to drive continuous improvement. • Project Management Tools: Ensure that project management tools, such as Monday.com, are consistently updated to reflect current project status. • Relationship Management: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with counterparts across all relevant teams to facilitate collaboration and project success. • Ownership and Accountability: Take full ownership of project scope, quality, and cost, ensuring that intended benefits and outcomes are achieved. **Education** Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience. **Experience Essential:** Minimum of 6 years of relevant finance experience across multiple teams. Proven track record of successfully delivering change initiatives or projects. **Desirable:** Experience in project management and/or change management. Project management certification (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP) or equivalent relevant internal experience at IHG At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG. Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love. 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