Student Placement

Job description

Description

About us

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (FTSE 100 listed) is a global organisation with a broad portfolio of hotel brands, including Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas ,  Regent Hotels & Resorts ,  InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts ,  Kimpton® Hotels & Restaurants ,  Hotel Indigo® ,  EVEN Hotels ® ,  HUALUXE® Hotels and Resorts ,  Crowne Plaza® Hotels & Resorts ,  voco™ ,  Holiday Inn® Hotels & Resorts ,  Holiday Inn Express® ,  Holiday Inn Club Vacations® ,  avid™ hotels ,  Staybridge Suites® ,  Atwell Suites™  and  Candlewood Suites® . 

IHG franchises, leases, manages or owns nearly 5,800 hotels and approximately 865,000 guest rooms in more than 100 countries, with over 1,900 hotels in its development pipeline. IHG also manages  IHG® Rewards Club , our global loyalty programme, which has more than 100 million enrolled members. We are offering an excellent opportunity for two committed, enthusiastic and hardworking students to join our Finance team located in our offices in Burton on Trent. 

The placements will be within the Financial Reporting and Tax departments; however there may be opportunities throughout the year to gain experience in other areas of Finance. 

Your day to day

Working within the Finance team offers an excellent insight into different areas of finance and will provide a solid foundation for any financial based career.

Key Responsibilities:

The placement students are responsible for a number of activities on a daily, monthly and quarterly basis.  On top of these duties a number of ad hoc assignments may need to be completed, allowing students to develop their organisational, planning and communication skills.

Position 1 – Financial Reporting. This role includes working for both Europe and Group Financial Reporting teams. 

·  Produce a number of UK statutory accounts for filing with relevant authorities and liaising with auditors and company secretariat teams
·  Apply iXBRL tagging information to financial statements for filing with HMRC
·  Responsible for inputting journal entries into PeopleSoft
·  Run ad-hoc/ monthly PeopleSoft queries and reports for other members in the Financial Reporting team
·  Prepare and retain high quality supporting documentation, suitable for
·  management and auditor review
·  Assist the Group Reporting team in preparing the IHG Annual Report and Form 20-F accounts
·  Assistance in ad-hoc global projects work as driven by business needs
·  Participate in the “Branston For You” social committee which organises office events

Position 2 – Tax. The role will include:

·  Assistance in global projects work as driven by business needs, for example, hotel openings in new tax jurisdictions, entity eliminations etc
·  Production of profit forecasts from Essbase (management reporting tool) in order to produce tax forecasts and disclosures for inclusion within the group’s interim results
·  Development of reports to help management review key data
·  Assistance in the preparation of UK corporation tax returns
·  Assist the Tax team in preparing tax sections of the IHG Annual Report and Form 20-F accounts
·  Preparation of tax disclosures to be incorporated within UK statutory accounts
·  Assistance with Transfer Pricing documentation, including research and analysis of company transactions and industry trends
·  Assistance with withholding tax compliance and documentation
·  Assistance with various aspects of VAT and employment tax
What we need from you

No prior knowledge of tax is needed for this role, but a solid foundation in financial accounting, familiarity with Excel, and a strong desire to learn are essential.

If you are a team player, with good numerical skills and attention to detail, a placement with IHG could be the opportunity you are looking for.

What we offer

At IHG, we promise to recognise you for great work and give you the tools needed to build a successful career with us and you will have chance to work with a great set of people.

This role is based in our modern, newly refurbished office in Branston, Staffordshire. Easily accessible from Birmingham, Nottingham and Leicester, we provide free car parking onsite as well as a free onsite gym and a subsidised restaurant. 

As an equal opportunity employer, IHG is committed to providing a working culture that values diversity and inclusion and is committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a barrier-free recruitment process.

The closing date for applications is the 25th November 2019