**Job Summary**
**Essential**Duties**and**Responsibilities**—**(Key**Activities)**- 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.
- Cleaily 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.
Select and use appropriate software's to effectively analyze data.
Compile and analyze information.
- Maintain a consistent, high quality customer focused orientation.
- Provide clear, accurate information; explain procedures and provide supplemental information; anticipate problems or questions.
**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 and account reconciliation's and appropriate reconciling journal entries.
- 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 (Vacation, STI, Christmas bonus, Medical and Life Insurance and Uniforms.)- Prepare, process and explain reports and support documents for Government authorities in different areas (Finance, labor, tax).
- Act as main contact for Government and external auditors, and provide accurate ad-hoc reports for external audit and Government when needed.
- Responsible for preparing information from People Soft to GAAP financial statements by month and translate according to Mexican laws.
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- Responsible for invoicing the service agreement from HI Mexicana Servicios and Centro de Servicios Hoteleros to Holiday Inn Mexicana, S.A. and to Six Continents as well.
- Responsible of processing local licenses and permits to facilitate the operation of the IHG companies in Guadalajara and Mexico City.
- Review compliance with Social Security laws for IHG employees in Mexico, taxes withheld, as well as compliance with other local taxes.
- Provide support to Area Vice Presidents and Directors in the processing of annual income tax reports.
**Required Qualifications**
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.
**Technical**Skills**and**Knowledge**- Demonstrated knowledge of PeopleSoft or other system's finance, accounting and/or Human Resources modules.
- Demonstrated proficiency in accurately populating databases with necessary information in designated time periods.
- Demonstrates clear, concise and succinct communication skills including adapting both verbal and written communication to the needs and level of the user.
- Strong command of Contpaq, system's finance & accounting.
- Strong command and continuous updating on Mexican Fiscal regulations.
- Communication with Government and internal auditors as well as local authorities.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
Detail oriented.
Good problem-solving skills.
- Strong organizational and work coordinating skills to handle multiple assignments and projects.
- ** Proficiency in both written and spoken English is required**
- Demonstrated command of tax processing systems / programs
**_Please note that this is a 100% on-site position based at our Guadalajara office.
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📌 Sr. Accounting Specialist (Guadalajara)
🏢 Intercontinental Hotels Group
📍 Guadalajara