Specialist, Financial Assurance

Role Purpose

With minimal guidance, act as part of the Global Financial Governance team to perform various assurance procedures, specifically relating to IHG’s Environmental activities, for the purposes of confirming accuracy of external reporting, compliance with external regulation, and accuracy of internally reported metrics that support critical decision making and remuneration outputs. The assurance activities cover IHG’s managed hotel estate, owned and leased hotels, and corporate offices globally.

Key Accountabilities

• Carbon reporting accuracy – Validate the accuracy of hotel and office carbon reporting by obtaining supporting evidence such as invoices from utility suppliers and meter readings. Interpret the evidence and assess against the numbers reported through the relevant reporting systems. This will expand to assurance over other environmental reporting such as water usage.
• Carbon reporting adjustments – Follow-up directly with the hotel/office with observations from testing. Advise the hotel/office of the corrections they need to make to the reported numbers. Subsequently check and ensure that adjustments have been made.
• Carbon reporting process and control improvements – Advise any hotel/office with errors on any process or control improvements that would help prevent errors in future reporting.
• Tracking and Reporting – Maintain effective tracking of testing results, capturing hotels/offices with errors in reported numbers, issues with the availability of auditable evidence, or where there have been slow or inadequate co-operation. Highlight hotels/offices with multiple and/or recurring issues. Prepare monthly reporting for Supervisor and Indirect Manager.
• Audit Support – Provide timely and effective support to all internal and external auditors who require access to, and have questions on, the workings and audit evidences obtained for carbon reporting.

Key Collaborative Network

• Will collaborate with hotel and office finance team and/or engineering team (or whichever individuals are responsible for carbon reporting), Corporate Responsibility, Global Finance, Internal and External Auditors.
• Will sometimes require collaboration with other Global Financial Governance team members for the shared goal of accuracy of Philippines compliance activities.
• Expected to support other ESG assurance activities as required, including those that relate to critical internal metrics.
• All other audit and finance related tasks may be assigned in the future.

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid setup with a minimum of two (2) onsite days per week, subject to operational requirements.

Work Schedule

• The candidate must be flexible and willing to work either morning (AM) or evening (PM) shifts, based on business needs.

Key Skills & Experiences

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft office products and intermediate level knowledge of IT systems and controls.
• Demonstrates clear, concise and succinct communication skills including adapting both verbal and written communication to the needs and level of the user.
• Ability to work independently and apply judgement in interpreting audit evidence.
• Analytical skills to understand risks and process gaps.
• Ability to work flexibility in a global team.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent education

Experience

• 2+ years progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency and understanding in one or more functions related to the position. General audit and compliance background are required.
• ESG audit experience preferred.