Lead Finance & Contract Support (Data Center Solutions) at CBRE

CBRE; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE, the global leader in real estate services, is seeking a Lead Contract Support for Singapore and Malaysia to lead the Contract Support team and provide financial and administrative oversight for contracts within the SG+ market.

Key duties include managing supplier invoices, aging debt, unbilled revenue, and monthly close tasks, while supporting procurement, project finance, and onboarding of new contract staff.

Responsibilities

• Finance: assist with control of all financial and commercial aspects of contracts; manage supplier invoices; ensure timely vendor payments; monitor aged debt; prepare weekly aged debt reports; chase updates from site team on overdue AR; monitor Work in Progress; assist with Unbilled Revenue aging; support intercompany pre-agreements & billings; assist mobilisation trainings and onboarding; Month End tasks; ERP champion.

Job description

Company Profile CBRE is the global leader in real estate services and leverages the industry's most powerful knowledge base to meet the commercial real estate needs of its clients worldwide.

Our vision is to be the preeminent, vertically integrated, globally capable real estate service firm.

Job Title: Lead Contract Support (SG & Malaysia) CBRE Global Workplace Solutions is a leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management.

We are recruiting a Business Unit Lead Contract Support to join the Data Centres team located in Singapore.

The main responsibility of this role is to provide leadership to the Business Unit Contract Support team and financial and administrative support to the Assistant Finance Manager & Finance Manager for our Contracts within SG+ market (Singapore & Malaysia).

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Finance

To assist with the control of all financial and commercial aspects of contracts within the business unit, this includes but not limited to: Managing supplier invoices ensuring vendors are paid promptly and the team are resolving issues quickly.

Monitor the contracts Open Purchase Orders over 60 days and support resolving issues.

Monitor our aged debt and support both Contract Managers and Contract Support on resolving issues.

Preparation of weekly aged debt report and to chase updates from site team on overdue AR.

Monitor the contract’s Work in Progress to ensure everything is current and support in closing out aged WIP Manage Unbilled Revenue Aging, support both Contract Managers and Contract Support on our invoicing issues (UBR no more than 30 days)

Support with intercompany pre-agreements & billings* *

Support the mobilisation team with trainings, customer onboarding, project creation and implementing finance processes when mobilising new contracts

Support the Assistant Finance Manager & Finance and Contract Support Manager with Month End tasks where needed

Finance Systems (ERP) Champion - to keep Contract Support team up to date with any changes

Procurement

Assisting BU Procurement Team for contract-related renewals for subcontractors Onboarding of BU overhead & new contracts' vendors Co-owning knowledge in MySupplier & provide training when required

Commercial

Must have understanding in the requirements & ensuring best practices across all contracts, such as Terms & Conditions, Purchase Orders, Invoices, etc

Projects

Raising POs & support with billing for projects Ensuring all documents are up to date & well-kept within the Projects Sharepoint folder Participating in bi-weekly projects review meetings

People / Contract Support

Conduct Contract Support Interviews for potential and current vacancies Ensure Contract support new starters have all systems set up and necessary training has been carried out Provide ad hoc training for the Contract Support and Management team on SME subjects Plan and lead regular Contract Support Meetings Hold regular 1-1s with the Contract Support team to check on welfare, support on area of weaknesses and support with PDP actions Arrange and support with annual leave cover for Contract Support QHSE / Reliability Systems administrator for CBRE platforms like Harbour and AccountIQ Ability to support SMEs to grant access to any new joiners Helping to collate data for reports within each Contract if necessary

Overhead / Platform

To provide administrative support to the Business Unit Leader, Assistant Finance Manager, Finance and Contract Support Manager and wider senior management team Raise Overhead POs on an adhoc basis Co-owning the BU South APAC Library Sharepoint - ensuring all are up to date To update organization charts for sites in the Sharepoint – ensuring all are up to date

Operations / Contract

Organise & attend Contract Reviews and contribute sharing best practice for improvements Support in the mobilisation and demobilising of Contracts when required Overtime submission to payroll - reviewing of hours ensuring accuracy and correctness of each submission Drive governance meetings with contracts that need support with their financial issues i.e., forecast calls, Debt calls, etc with CFM and Contract Supports