Finance Project Lead

6 months ago

Luton, United Kingdom Marriott International, Inc Full time

**Job Number** 23209017

**Job Category** Finance & Accounting

**Location** Europe Office-UKShared Service, Cedar House 750A Parkland Square, Luton, BEDFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom VIEW ON MAP

**Schedule** Full-Time

**Located Remotely?** N

**Relocation?** N

**Position Type** Management
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The Finance Project Lead, UKIN (fixed term) will report to the Area Director of Finance UKIN.

This is an important project role reporting to the Area Director of Finance, helping to reinforce, plan and implement finance projects across the entire portfolio of managed hotels.

Planning, organizing and tracking are very important attributes for this role, along with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well under pressure. Working well as part of a team will be an essential element of the role.

Responsibilities include supporting all project management work streams.

Functions as support for the Area Director of Finance on projects spanning Finance Operations, Revenue Management, Procurement and Operations. Position works with team to develop and implement departmental strategies and ensures all due diligence requirements are actioned.

**SCOPE**
- Location requirements: to be field based.
- Language Requirements: High proficiency (speaking, reading and writing) in English is required. Additional language skills preferred.
- Travel Requirements: There is approx. 10% business travel required, depending on the Project.

**CANDIDATE PROFILE**

**PREFERRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE**:

- 5+years of relevant operating business experience in Finance. Operations and/or hotel operating management experience
- Proven analytical skills with the ability to build on financial and/or operating back ground to help address performance issues and impacts across individual and multi-unit portfolios.
- Excellent communication skills with multi stakeholders
- Strong team player
- Works well under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Manages and balances various priorities
- Hotel operations knowledge essential - excellent understanding of processes and procedures
- Contact base within both the Marriott internal market organization and external stakeholders.
- Excellent Business Acumen: ability to make sound business decisions requiring the balanced integration of operational, financial, and human resources.
- Proven Influencing Skills: ability to persuade leadership and stakeholders to respond appropriately to requests

**Education and Professional Certification**:

- College degree in finance / hotel management / business related field preferred

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Business/Functional Results**
- Support UKIN Marriott Leadership team with key finance integration projects, including planning, organizing and implementing new processes and procedures.
- Support Area Director of Finance to assist with problem resolution with strong Owner / customer care skills.
- Providing proactive oversight for newly implemented projects, including follow ups and troubleshooting issues arising.
- Carry out detailed analysis work including integration mapping.
- Supporting change management efforts
- Provides support where necessary for financial and operational projects and work streams
- Highlighting and working to improve areas of improvement in processes and plans
- Works where necessary with other Marriott teams for all data related matters
- Works where necessary with the Controls and contracts compliance teams for all financial audit related matters

**Managing Execution**
- Directly support the UKIN Area team and Project teams on project requirements and initiatives
- Strengthen owner relationships through clearer lines of communication and high levels of responsiveness to issues, needs, and requests
- Resolve issues before they rise to the escalated level
- Use “leading” performance indicators to proactively intervene before emerging issues become significant risks
- Partner with Finance, Sales, Legal, Development and Market organizations to ensure that initiatives and programs are well communicated with external stakeholders; timely address and resolve any issues resulting from those programs.
- Ensure appropriate functional counterparts are engaged in issues and understand the perspective of the owner community.
- Participate in market leadership meetings to educate above property stakeholders on owner business perspective and to provide insight and support.

**Building Relationships**
- Manage interactions with key stakeholder teams to facilitate resolution to obstacles
- Represent the voice of Finance Operations within UKIN and related disciplines
- Help to reinforce MI and owners perspective within internal forums by demonstrating strong business and financial acumen with general understanding of situational economics, legal, and agreements

**Other**
- Perform other duties as needed.

**MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES**

**Leadership**
- **Communication**:

- Conveys information and ideas to others in a convincing and engaging ma

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