Finance Internship – IHG Hotels & Resorts

IHG Hotels & Resorts offer 12-month internship program for university students to give the opportunity to choose between Financial Reporting and Tax, whilst also gaining exposure in other areas of finance.

Your day to day

Financial Reporting

This role will primarily be assisting the various Regional Financial Reporting teams, with the opportunity to also work with the Group Financial Reporting and treasury teams.

• Prepare various monthly accounting reviews for the Americas and EMEA regions for management review and control compliance
• Assist with monthly and quarterly reporting through inputting journal entries and running reports
• Assist in the production of UK statutory accounts and applying iXBRL tagging information for filing with HMRC
• Complete user access reviews on various systems
• Assist the Treasury team in various treasury tasks such as bank reconciliations, banking access reviews and exposure reports
• Assistance in ad-hoc global projects work

Tax

This role will be spent within the Tax department.

• Assistance in global projects driven by business needs, for example, hotel openings in new tax jurisdictions, entity eliminations, responding to tax authority enquiries etc
• Production of profit forecasts to help produce tax forecasts and disclosures for inclusion within the group’s interim results
• Assistance in the review and 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, macroeconomic and industry trends.
• Assistance with withholding tax compliance and documentation
• Assistance with various aspects of VAT and employment tax

We’ll also provide you with full training in our financial software and databases.