Financial Planning & Analysis Manager - Secondment

IHG Hotels & Resorts; Burton upon Trent; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

IHG Hotels & Resorts is seeking a Finance professional to join Corporate Financial Planning on a 10-month fixed-term contract at our Windsor Global Headquarters. You will shape financial plans and support strategic decision-making across the business, working closely with senior leaders including the Group CFO, Executive Committee, and Board.

You will develop budgets, coordinate across regions, prepare analysis for reviews, and help drive improvements in planning processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in FP&A, corporate planning, strategy, or a related field.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to connect data, trends, and business insights.
• Excellent presentation and written communication skills.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience with planning tools such as Essbase is advantageous.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and consistently deliver high-quality work to demanding timelines.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and a collaborative approach to working across teams.
• A curious mindset and a desire to understand the drivers of enterprise value and business performance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of corporate budget targets and long-range financial plans.
• Partner with regional and functional teams to understand business priorities, build alignment, and support planning activities.
• Support strategic reviews by preparing insightful analysis, reports, and presentations for the Executive Committee and Board.
• Analyse strategic initiatives, investment opportunities, resource allocation, and business performance to inform decision-making.
• Monitor project-to-plan progress and provide meaningful updates and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Help drive efficient financial planning processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate effectively across teams, geographies, and cultures to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Skills

FP&A

Corporate planning

Analytical skills

Presentation skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Stakeholder management

Tools

Essbase

Job description

Are you looking to broaden your commercial and strategic finance experience while gaining exposure to senior leadership decision-making?

We have an opportunity to join the Corporate Financial Planning team on a 10-month fixed term contract, based at our Global Headquarters in Windsor, playing a key role in shaping financial plans and supporting strategic decision-making across the business.

Working closely with senior leaders, including the Group CFO, Executive Committee, and Board of Directors, you'll contribute to the financial planning processes that help drive business performance and long-term growth.

What you will do

• Contribute to the development of corporate budget targets and long-range financial plans.
• Partner with regional and functional teams to understand business priorities, build alignment, and support planning activities.
• Support strategic reviews by preparing insightful analysis, reports, and presentations for the Executive Committee and Board.
• Analyse strategic initiatives, investment opportunities, resource allocation, and business performance to inform decision-making.
• Monitor project-to-plan progress and provide meaningful updates and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Help drive efficient financial planning processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Collaborate effectively across teams, geographies, and cultures to deliver high-quality outcomes.

What we're looking for

• Experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), corporate planning, strategy, or a related field.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to connect data, trends, and business insights.
• Excellent presentation and written communication skills.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience with planning tools such as Essbase is advantageous.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and consistently deliver high-quality work to demanding timelines.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and a collaborative approach to working across teams.
• A curious mindset and a desire to understand the drivers of enterprise value and business performance.

Closing date for applications Tuesday 6th October 2026

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.

We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That is why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.

We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life.

• impressive room discounts across our many properties
• recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year
• Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace.

We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.

Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.