Sr Specialist Accounting

Bringing True Hospitality to the world.

We want to welcome you to a world of bringing True Hospitality to everyone. When you join us at IHG®, you become part of our global family. A welcoming culture of warmth, honesty, and a passion for providing True Hospitality.

We pride ourselves on letting your personality and passions shine, recognizing the individual contribution you make and supporting your ambition to learn and create your own career path. In making a difference to our guests and owners, colleagues and communities, every day is a chance to create great and unique experiences, in your own way.

With over 370,000 colleagues in nearly 100 countries sharing our values, there’s countless opportunities at your fingertips.

We’re growing; grow with us.

Your day to day    - 

This position is responsible for maintaining IHG’s accounting system to ensure proper application/compliance with the Mexican Labor and Fiscal Laws.

Gather information, process, produce, update, and back up all financial statements presented to Mexican authorities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

Calculate and process monthly and annual company taxes (labor, federal and local), as per Mexican GAAPS, including all financial and tax worksheets, optimizing the deductibility in order to avoid excess in taxes.

Attend external auditors (E&Y) and Government requests providing back up of the required documentation. Report and analyze discrepancies in the accounting balance sheets.

Act as part of a team to process transactions in accordance with Service Level Agreements and with the Accounting objectives. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities -

SPECIALITY PROCESSING

Process information in accordance with Service Level Agreements. Perform specialty accounting such as maintaining, reconciling, analyzing, and preparing financial statements according to Mexican GAAPS. Review a variety of documents, listings, summaries, etc. for completeness and accuracy.
Provide analysis and resolution of significant changes in account balances.
Clearly understand policies and procedures of accounting and taxing.
Analyze assigned system reports to ensure accuracy, research and resolve problems; ensure the integrity of assigned system and data.
Prepare and compile various reports as required for special studies and projects.
Analyze the financial and fiscal situation of the company to recommend areas of opportunity to optimize tax payments and to avoid/eliminate potential fines.
Maintain an updated report on fixed asset and depreciation.
Prepare monthly financial statements using standard accounting and taxing checklists.
Responsible for presenting tax returns (after audit review) on a monthly and annual basis (tax calculations of the different legal entities).

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

May perform statistical analysis and create charts, tables and graphs as required.
Maintain a consistent, high quality customer focused orientation.
Provide clear, accurate information; explain procedures and provide supplemental information.
Functional Complexities and Duties

Prepare monthly corporate financial statements, ensuring timeliness, accuracy, and compliance with IHG’s and Mexican business practices.
Prepare and review monthly balance sheet.
Responsible for applying the journal accruals, income and collections on the General Ledger.
Responsible for reconciling fiscal operations against financial statements.
To maintain up to date and report the fixed Assets and depreciation using standard accounting and taxing.
Responsible for booking payroll provisions and review compliance with Social Security laws.
Prepare, process and explain reports and support documents for Government authorities in different areas (Finance, labor, tax).

What we need from you - 
    
Education
Associate Degree or Bachelor's Degree /certificate or an equivalent combination of education and work related experience.

Experience
5 to 7 years progressive work related experience with demonstrated proficiency and understanding in one or more functions related to the position.

    
We’ll reward all your hard work with a great salary and benefits – including great room discount and superb training.

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family – and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together – we trust and support each other, we do the right thing, and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care, that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to an individual's, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. IHG is committed to promoting a culture of inclusion where everyone feels safe, respected and valued. We seek talent from all backgrounds to join our teams and encourage our colleagues to bring their authentic and best selves to work.

IHG is committed to promoting a culture of inclusion where everyone feels safe, respected and valued. We seek talent from all backgrounds to join our teams and encourage our colleagues to bring their authentic and best selves to work.