Finance Associate (GL) - $6000 (1 Year Contract)

C&W SERVICES (S) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

C&W Services is seeking a Finance Assistant to support budgeting and forecasting processes in Singapore. The role involves collaboration with operations teams and requires strong IT skills, particularly in Excel and BI tools, along with experience in stakeholder engagement. Join a global leader in real estate services and enjoy career development in an inclusive environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible work environment

Diversity and Inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-4 years’ experience in finance assistant or property accounting role.
• Experience working with large datasets and transactional volumes.
• Property/commercial real estate industry experience viewed favourably.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of annual budget and monthly forecasting.
• Ensure timely completion of month-end accounting tasks.
• Drive efficiency through standardisation and optimisation of processes.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

BI tools

Stakeholder engagement

Problem-solving

Tools

Yardi Voyager

Job description

About the role:

• As necessary, support the delivery of the client’s annual budget and monthly forecasting for Singapore

• Working closely with operations teams to build and validate annual bottom-up budgets.

• Identification of potential risks impacting the full year budget and capturing those within monthly forecasts

• Ensure the timely completion of all month-end accounting and finance related tasks (accruals, review and preparation of government subsidy allocations, carparking, payment processing etc), including the provision of information to client stakeholders for situations in which a dependency exists.

• Drive efficiency and productivity through the standardisation and optimisation of processes where appropriate.

• Encourage and develop a culture of knowledge sharing to facilitate a best practice approach to client delivery.

• Ensure compliance with all necessary SOX audit controls.

• Provide clear and concise commercial and financial advice to stakeholders at all levels to facilitate an enhanced level of decision making (acting as proactive business partners – working closely with operations).

• Provision of billing support and receivables management from a Cushman & Wakefield corporate perspective.

• Provision of budgeting and forecasting support from a Cushman & Wakefield corporate perspective as and when necessary.

• Provision and maintenance of substantiating documentation to support balance sheet reconciliations – working closely with project management teams.

• Address ad hoc internal and client requests.

• Work closely with operations teams to ensure vendor compliance as it relates to the timely submission of invoices.

• Work across multiple financial systems to carry out the above tasks.

About you:

• Minimum 3-4 years’ experience in a finance assistant or property accounting role.

• Strong IT skills including Excel, PowerPoint and BI tools.

• Ability to work with large datasets and transactional volumes while maintaining/ensuring accuracy.

• Capacity to deal with ambiguity and address problems within a changing work environment.

• Experience working with remote teams will be beneficial.

• Experience working with Yardi Voyager is highly desirable.

• Experience working within a highly commercial environment where stakeholder engagement and exposure to working with senior management is required.

• Focus on improving business processes to increase productivity.

• Focus on business partnering and the provision of a high-quality service.

• Focus on proactive engagement with all stakeholders – relationship management and responsiveness are critical.

• Property/commercial real estate industry experience will be viewed favourably.

• Understanding of FM/Workplace operations is desirable.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;

• Career development and a promote from within culture;

• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

• We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.

We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status. We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.