InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is one of the world’s leading hotel companies. Present in nearly 100 countries, we have 161 million guests staying in 710,295 rooms in over 4,800 hotels per year.
You’ll know our hotel brands. They are some of the best known and most popular in the world – InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn®, Holiday Inn Express®, Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo®, Staybridge Suites®, Candlewood Suites®, EVEN Hotels® and HUALUXE® Hotels and Resorts.
All of these brands work together towards our goals of creating Great Hotels Guests Love®. This is a mission that’s seen us go from strength to strength – with more rooms in an ever-growing portfolio of hotels across more and more locations. Which makes this an incredibly exciting time to become part of the team.
Director of Finance & Business Support (InterContinental Lagos)
Location: Lagos, NG
Job description
What’s your passion? Whether you’re into singing, swimming or cooking, at IHG we’re interested in YOU. We love people who apply the same amount of care and passion to their jobs as they do their hobbies – people who help us create great hotels guests love.
At the moment we’re looking for a Director of Finance & Business Support to lead our energetic and enthusiastic finance team at InterContinental Lagos.
Reporting to the Regional General Manager – Africa and the Regional Director of Finance & Business Support, you’ll supervise all members of the Accounting Department, provide functional guidance to Executive Committee and Department Heads, interact with hotel’s owners, legal counsel, insurance companies, tax consultants, auditors, commercial and government banks to effectively control the assets of the business and to provide business support.
You will also assist and provide financial guidance in the formulation and implementation of Strategic Plans, Budgets and Key Performance Objective’s, Cash flow projection and performance through controls on inventory, credit and collection, disbursements, deposits and remittances as well as the monthly preparation of actual results against budget, analyze results and recommend to Executive Committee measures required to meet budget as well as prepare a consolidated quarterly position assessments for the Regional General Manager – Africa.
Job Requirements
Required Experience: Not Specified
Desired Courses: Business, Accounting, Finance, Commerce
Ideally you’ll have a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance or Commerce (preferably a Masters Degree), Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) qualifications and excellent knowledge of hotel accounting software(s) e.g. Sun, EFPM & / or Essbase. A basic knowledge of hotel reservations system(s) e.g. Opera, Fidelio and hotel point of sales system(s) e.g. Micros, Squirrel as well as negotiation and effective presentation skills will see you successful in this role.
Ultimately, you have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills, proficient skills for written and oral communication in English and a desire and the ability to travel and work in different countries.
In return, we’ll give you a competitive benefits package including salary, insurances and the opportunity to progress your career with IHG. You’ll have the chance to work with a great team of people. Most importantly, we’ll give you Room to be yourself.
So what’s your passion? Please apply on-line and tell us how you can bring your individual skills to IHG.
To find out more about us or any other jobs with IHG please look at www.ihg.com/careers
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