Director - Record to Report

• Provides a strategic direction to R2R team to ensure that each member can deliver the expected outcome.
• Collaborate with PE, business support and technology owners to enable agreed changes to processes and consolidation of agreed key measures/metrics.
• Responsible to implement in transforming end-to-end processes to ultimately help driving delivery in consultation with PE with high focus on customer centricity.
• Implement and monitor standards and policies to ensure adherence to GAAP, IFRS, agreed global procedures, regional business requirements, statutory governmental regulations, and SOX requirements to minimize liability and risk.
• Ensure that service quality metrics exist. These will be used to drive service improvements and ensure all customers receive a satisfactory level of service.
• Maintain appropriate records suitable for research and internal or external audit in accordance with GAAP, SOX and SAS70 requirements.
• Monitor the assigned processes to ensure compliance with statutory governmental regulations, business requirements, legal contracts, and any other local compliance areas.
• Responsible for smooth functioning of legal, statutory, accounting and audit compliances of Indian entities and maintaining the statutory and accounting records of the same. This includes Statutory Audit, Tax Audit, Income Tax and Transfer Pricing Assessments and appeals; filing of annual/monthly returns with Registrar of Companies, compliances related to monthly/annual filing of returns with STPI etc. and managing India finance team.
• Ensure an ongoing service led culture within the teams where high-performance culture is inculcated in the system.
• Continuously monitoring the processes to ensure that adequate controls are in place to mitigate risk areas. Identify potential control weaknesses, suggest, and implement control improvements.
• Ensure that processes operate with optimum efficiency. Actively identify, investigate, and implement process improvements.
• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to inspire, lead, build and deliver through high performance teams.
• Ensure all information requested by internal, external and SOX auditors are provided on time and accurately. Ensure the books and records of your processes including balance sheet reconciliations are accurately maintained so that no audit observations or adjustments or identified.
• Continuously reviewing the metrics used to measure processes. Ensure that the metrics are appropriate, and the targets are challenging but achievable. Manager the processes to ensure that all metrics targets are achieved.
• Ability to prioritise and delegate effectively in a fast moving, global environment with tight deadlines.

• Customer survey results/support metrics
• Employee engagement results
• Close cycle time (days to close)
• Number and severity of audit findings.
• Accuracy and timelines of financial reporting
• Process compliance and internal control health.
• % of automated journal entries and GL recons transformation
• Employee engagement and retention within R2R team

• Head of Global Finance Services

• Direct Reports 5-7
• Full Team 70 –100

Key Collaborative Network

• Clean Audit and SOX Compliance
• Timely reporting

• GFS team
• Decision Support
• Controller Group
• Design and Delivery Team
• PWC Auditors
• Internal Auditors
• FP&A and FBPs’

Required Education, Experience, Technical Skills and Knowledge

Decision Rights

Education

• Chartered Accountant (CA), CPA, CMA, or equivalent accounting qualification

Experience

• 10 – 15 years progressive work-related experience in accounting and finance with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines/processes related to the position as well as 6+ years managing large teams.
• Working experience around various GAAPs’, IFRS, Group and Stats audit requirements.
• Stakeholder management experience, preferably in an international environment

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written to address all levels within the organization. Ability to influence others, present convincing arguments, deal with conflicting viewpoints and an ability to gain consensus.
• Demonstrated knowledge of finance, budgeting, and accounting processes and regulations globally.
• Advanced financial and operational analytical skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency in recognizing and resolving problems or inconsistencies in financial statements, assessing materiality and effect.
• Demonstrated ability to scope and manage multiple priorities, responsibilities, and project participation through engagement with the Projects team.
• Experience in the design and delivery of significant process improvements, including technology.
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of PeopleSoft, Hyperion or other enterprise financial systems and Microsoft Office.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and practices as well as IFRS guidelines.

• Ultimately accountable for all aspects of service delivery of the process – quality, efficiency, effectiveness, internal controls, risk and an excellent customer experience
• Impact regarding the prioritization of work and for identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Impact on resource allocation, project costs, schedule and quality levels for assigned area.
• Significant impact for ensuring efficient procedures is utilized and actionable plans are identified to achieve operational targets.
• Independent decisions on accounts and management reports to resolve process or customer issues and to monitor and resolve vendor relations issues.
• Erroneous decisions or recommendations would normally result in potential negative impact to financials of IHG and external owner groups.

Completion of IHG Corporate BOA in PeopleSoft.

Various Process Improvement initiatives impacting IHG ways of working managing R2R.

Designing of SOX controls and narratives within R2R.