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The Analyst for Process-To-Pay Tower (PTP) will work with the Manager of PTP within Hilton’s UK Centre of Excellence. They will play a part in providing control oversight of Process to Pay activities and correct expenditure accounting within Hilton by supporting efficient operation of processing and paying over 930,00 transactions annually, covering a spend of almost $2.4b.

You will be expected to coach and collaborate with Team Members in the Shared Service Centre of Excellence and our Corporate and Hotel locations to ensure their defined sub processes are managed and measured right first time and identify areas to optimize delivery within their area of end-to-end function. You will be expected to have oversight of the lifecycle of purchase expense management and be able to support other members of the team to achieve optimal performance in the PTP Tower.

Experience in Accounts Payable (or other high-volume transaction processing and accounting environments), outsourced service provider partnering (Shared Service Centre), data and process design as well as identifying and delivering structured scalable improvements are essential attributes in this role. Furthermore, engaging stakeholders with accurate and insightful data reporting coupled with confident performance narration is also a key element of job.

What will I be doing?

Under the direction and guidance of the PTP Manager, you will be responsible for control oversight and intervention in the delivery and improvement of the PTP processes to ensure payment performance is optimized, financial controls are complied with, and performance metric targets are achieved: all right first time.

The Analyst will own sub process performance and will have oversight across the PTP tower for end-to-end process and accounting understanding. This includes correct accounting treatment and VAT/GST compliance to each country fiscal guidelines. The Analyst will be responsible for achieving 100% Operational Effectiveness of defined Sarbanes Oxley controls and robust compliance in Hotel audits testing.You will also develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders including Hilton Supply Management, suppliers, Corporate and Hotel management, and Operational Finance Teams to

identify and deliver optimal operational delivery as well as identification of sustainable improvement in their area of control. Improvement will be structured by following Lean Sigma project management methodology, you will have responsibility to identify improvements and replication opportunity across similar processes in PTP Tower and seek further opportunity to drive standardization across regions.

You will participate and play a part in engendering a sense of empowerment in the pursuit of top quartile performance, supporting, and driving the development and delivery of PTP operations on a day-to-day basis. The post holder will have the ability to understand and interpret Centre of Excellence and Shared Service performance metrics associated with their sub process and will collaborate with Shared Service Centre, Hilton Supply Management, Suppliers and Hotel and Corporate stakeholders to ensure optimal compliance to target performance. The post holder will leverage data mining and analysis skills to report and drive evidence-based interventions needed to ensure targets are met and optimized.

What are we looking for?

Key to the success of the role will be the ability to communicate and adapt to change as required. The post holder will possess the capacity to effectively contribute towards a strong customer-focused ethos while ensuring that a robust control environment is maintained.

Required that you can demonstrate:

• Relevant work experience including data analysis in finance or financial services high volume transaction processing functions.

• Fluency in English with first class oral and written communication skills is essential (with additional foreign language a benefit)

• Critical thinking and both quantitative and qualitative analytical skills with the ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

• Ability to exercise sound judgment and decision-making skills to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and to provide recommendations for optimal solutions.

• Ability to work well under pressure and effectively handle multiple, concurrent demands and appropriately prioritize responsibilities.

• Experience with Oracle PeopleSoft, Navision, Docmatrix or Documentum, Blackline, Concur, applications preferred.

• Proficient in data analysis and reporting leveraging MS Excel, Power BI, Tableau or other business intelligence tools.

• Experience in supporting process improvement projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or college finance related certification.

• Relevant accounting experience is essential with preference to those with part qualification CA, CIMA, ACCA, AAT, however Hilton is committed to supporting professional accounting qualification attainment for the right candidate.

• Sigma Green Belt accreditation, Prince 2, Agile certified may be advantageous as will a willingness to attain.

Required Qualifications:

•*Bachelor’s degree

•*Relevant years relevant analytical work experience including data analysis in finance or financial service high volume, high value transaction processing functions.

•*Exceptional critical thinking and both quantitative and qualitative analytical skills with the ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

•*Ability to exercise sound judgment and decision making skills to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and to provide recommendations for optimal solutions.

•*Excellent written and verbal communication and comprehension skills.

•*Ability to work well under pressure and effectively handle multiple, concurrent demands and appropriately prioritize responsibilities

•*Proficient in MS Excel and Data analysis.

•*Experienced in project management delivery.

Preferred Qualifications:

•*Experience with Oracle PeopleSoft, Blackline, Concur applications preferred.

Job: Finance and Accounting

Title: Analyst, Procure-To-Pay (Finance based opportunity)

Location: null

Requisition ID: EUR015DD

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