Manager Finance Spend Management - Americas System Fund
Location: Mexico, Jalisco, Guadalajara
Address: 1 - Corp Guadalajara, Torre NIBA - Piso # 7, 44610
Job number: 166834
Purpose of the Role
Provide dedicated finance ownership of spend management across Americas System Fund, ensuring scalable processes, governance, and accurate financial execution, while enabling the business to operate efficiently.
Individual Accountabilities
- Own end-to-end spend intake, PO creation, and financial governance for Americas System Fund
- Ensure accurate funding allocation, cost center, and GL mapping across all spend
- Establish and enforce standardized intake process (pre-PO controls and documentation)
- Create and manage POs aligned to approved structure and governance requirements
- Track full lifecycle: request → approval → PO → invoicing → closure
- Maintain centralized spend tracking and reporting across all funds and programs
- Provide monthly reporting, variance analysis, and spend insights
- Partner with Global Sales (GSO), ACRM, and business teams to clarify spend intent and structure
- Ensure adherence to DOA, audit requirements, and System Fund governance standards
- Identify and mitigate risks related to misallocation, coding, and incomplete approvals
- Drive process standardization, simplification, and automation opportunities
Support FBPs by shifting spend management burden away from analytical roles
Collaboration Network / Collaboration
Shared Accountabilities
- Spend Management (primary ownership from Finance)
- Governance & Compliance
- Strategic Business Initiatives (where spend is involved)
Headcount Management (as relevant to funding allocation)
Interfaces
- Internal interfaces: SVP ACRM & Global Sales, AMER CFO / Finance Leadership, ACRM & GSO Business Teams, Finance COE/DS, Procurement / Sourcing, Legal / Compliance, System Fund Finance Team.
External interfaces: External Auditors, Vendors / Agencies (via Procurement), Owners Association (as applicable)
Critical Knowledge and Experience
- Strong understanding of:
- Financial coding (GL, cost centers, project structures)
- Budgeting, forecasting, and reporting
- System Fund / multi-source funding models
- High attention to detail and control mindset
- Ability to operate in complex, multi-stakeholder environment
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
Continuous improvement and process design mindset
Parameters for Success
Metrics
- Financial
- Accuracy of coding and allocation
- System Fund OP delivery
- Spend variance vs. plan
- Ring-fenced fund performance
- Non-Financial
- Cycle time from intake to PO creation
- Reduction in rework / exceptions
- Audit compliance (zero material findings)
- Quality and timeliness of reporting
Stakeholder satisfaction
Organisational Parameters
- For me
- Strong cross-functional network (Finance, GSO, Procurement, Legal)
- Trusted advisor on spend governance and funding structure
- Active contributor in decision-making forums
- For my team
- Seen as trusted finance control owners
- Strong understanding of funding structures and governance
- High-quality, consistent output
Decision Rights
- Influences
- Funding structure and allocation decisions
- Spend prioritization and execution approach
- Process design across Finance and business
- Vetoes
- Incomplete or non-compliant spend requests
- Incorrect financial coding or allocation
- Spend lacking appropriate approvals
Who we are
At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.
Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.
We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.
We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.
Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
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