Manager Process Excellence

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

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