**Role Purpose** With minimal guidance, act as part of the Global Financial Governance team to perform various assurance procedures, specifically relating to IHG’s Environmental activities, for the purposes of confirming accuracy of external reporting, compliance with external regulation, and accuracy of internally reported metrics that support critical decision making and remuneration outputs. The assurance activities cover IHG’s managed hotel estate, owned and leased hotels, and corporate offices globally. **Key Accountabilities** + **Carbon reporting accuracy** - Validate the accuracy of hotel and office carbon reporting by obtaining supporting evidences such as invoices from utility suppliers and meter readings. Interpret the evidence and assess against the numbers reported through the relevant reporting systems. This will expand to assurance over other environmental reporting such as water usage. + **Carbon reporting adjustments** - Follow-up directly with the hotel/office with observations from testing. Advise the hotel/office of the corrections they need to make to the reported numbers. Subsequently check and ensure that adjustments have been made. + **Carbon reporting process and control improvements -** Advise any hotel/office with errors on any process or control improvements that would help prevent errors in future reporting. + **Tracking and Reporting** - Maintain effective tracking of testing results, capturing hotels/offices with errors in reported numbers, issues with the availability of auditable evidence, or where there have been slow or inadequate co-operation. Highlight hotels/offices with multiple and/or recurring issues. Prepare monthly reporting for Supervisor and Indirect Manager. **Key Collaborative Network** + Will collaborate with hotel and office finance team and/or engineering team (or whichever individuals are responsible for carbon reporting), Corporate Responsibility, Global Finance, Internal and External Auditors. + Will sometimes require collaboration with other Global Financial Governance team members for the shared goal of accuracy of Philippines compliance activities. + Expected to support other ESG assurance activities as required, including those that relate to critical internal metrics. **Key Skills & Experiences** **Education –** Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or equivalent education **Experience –** 2+ years progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency and understanding in one or more functions related to the position. General audit and compliance background is required. ESG audit experience preferred. **Technical Skills and Knowledge –** + Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft office products and intermediate level knowledge of IT system and controls. + Demonstrates clear, concise and succinct communication skills including adapting both verbal and written communication to the needs and level of the user. + Ability to work independently and apply judgement in interpreting audit evidence. + Analytical skills to understand risks and process gaps. + Ability to work flexibly in a global team. Don't quite meet every single requirement, but still believe you'd be a great fit for the job? We'll never know unless you hit the 'Apply' button. Start your journey with us today. At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We firmly believe that all our colleagues deserve to be treated equally and have the same opportunities to develop and grow their skills within our business and provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and colleagues 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.