Job Title
Finance Manager
Job Description Summary
Cushman & Wakefield is a global leader in commercial real estate services, helping clients transform the way people work, shop, and live. The firm's 53,000 employees in more than 70 countries provide deep local and global insights that create significant value for occupiers and investors around the world. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest commercial real estate services firms with revenues of $10.1 billion across core services of agency leasing, asset services, capital markets, facilities services (branded C&W Services), global occupier services, investment management (branded DTZ Investors), tenant representation, and valuations & advisory.
To deliver financial management and accounting for client managed spend budgets, incorporating the needs of the client, C&W and their affiliates, whilst maintaining strong relationships with all stakeholders. There is a joint responsibility to deliver financial management and accounting for C&W corporate reporting for respective client accounts. To manage and develop existing client finance team, whilst supporting the wider client finance leadership team and initiatives. To ensure control of both C&W's and client's assets by implementing and enforcing C&W and client policies. To provide direction and ensure a smooth transition when taking over new accounts/locations.
Job Description
Core Responsibilities
- Support and work closely with Account Director, Client Accounting Director and other CWFM personnel to ensure delivery of contract obligations.
- Support and work closely with Account Director, Client Accounting Director and other Global CWFM personnel to ensure timely and accurate mobilisation of new locations and/or suppliers.
- Management of client accounting team to perform transactional processing activity and control of purchase order and invoice processing together with vendor payment utilising property and asset management and accounting applications - (E1 360, Yardi 7 and WorkDay and Client internal systems).
- Management of client accounting team including 121s, goal setting, performance review and planned development, ensuring that all appropriate tasks are delegated and well managed.
- Ensure payments are made in accordance with supplier terms and conditions and to avoid disruption to client services.
- Deliver all of primary client key deliverables via preparation of monthly deliverables calendar and work with account management and client to define scope of global accounting services needed.
- Manage production of detailed EMEA Regional contract monthly accounts with variance analysis which will form part of client reporting, provide timely Budget Vs Actual Reporting and participate in client meetings to provide accurate financial data and reviews.
- Produce contract management accounts with variance analysis monthly for internal corporate reporting purposes to Global Occupier Services Finance Function (WorkDay is the CWFM corporate management information application)
- Develop and provide incisive performance management reporting contributing towards cost control and achieving reduction targets and identifying optimal tax reporting locations.
- Knowledge required of complex local reporting and tax requirements for each of the countries within the scope of our client portfolio
- Ensure compliance with all client, internal and statutory processes and procedures and requirements (VAT, Audit etc.).
- Ad hoc projects, e.g. financial modelling and undertake a key role in the annual budgeting process
Qualities and Personal Attributes
Business Generation, Execution and/or enablement
- Uses knowledge of the business, along with relevant systems and procedures to support others and contribute to company and client objectives in achieving their financial, business and client goals
- Pursues opportunities to learn more about CW commercial environment
- Uses all available internal resources, systems and tools to help increase team productivity
- Builds the brand by seeking opportunities to promote the CW brand through everyday interactions that contribute to the brand image
- Identifies and improves processes, systems and work products to continually exceed internal and external client expectations
- Identifies solutions that reduce expenses
- Seeks assignments and welcomes challenging activities
- Delivers innovation by looking for and suggesting new ways to differentiate CW services from the competition
- Demonstrates a spirit to win by showing initiative in identifying, recommending and pursuing new opportunities
- Contributes to financial success by delivering on financial objectives
- Achieves the business plan by applying relevant systems, procedures, business knowledge to maximise resources and deliver role objectives
- Supports new business generation with knowledge and experience advice where required
- Supports existing business out with their own area with knowledge and experience advice where required
Leadership and Management