I've worked with Priya for a good while now and she's one of those candidates I have real confidence putting in front of a hotel group at this level. She's currently Cluster Finance Manager with IHG Hotels and Resorts in Manchester, where she's spent seven years building a genuinely rounded skill set across multi-property P&L and revenue finance. What stands out to me is that she hasn't just held the title, she's operated in environments where the complexity is real and the pressure to deliver clean numbers across several sites simultaneously is constant.

The achievement I keep coming back to when I talk about Priya is the brand conversion she steered financially across a four-hotel cluster. She told me herself that it was the most demanding period of her career, coordinating finance through the operational and systems disruption that comes with a conversion of that scale, and doing it without the reporting falling apart. That kind of experience is genuinely rare at mid-level and it tells you a lot about her composure and her ability to hold things together when the ground is shifting beneath her.

On a practical note, Priya is based in Manchester and available on four weeks' notice, which is straightforward. She's at a point in her career where she's looking for a step up in scope or seniority, and a group environment with a bit more strategic involvement in the finance function would suit her very well. I think she'd settle into a new team quickly. She's personable, asks the right questions, and knows how a branded hotel business operates from the inside out.