Senior/ Finance Executive

Cushman & Wakefield; Singapore; On-site; SGD 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Global company

Career development & internal promo

Diversity & Inclusion

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Senior/Finance Executive in Singapore to manage day-to-day financial operations and support accurate month-end closings across multiple accounts. You will drive process improvements, ensure compliance with contract requirements and GAAP standards, and collaborate with account managers and FP&A to explain variances.

You will prepare budgets, forecasts and manage cash flow through AR oversight, while pushing automation and standardisation to reduce manual work and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related discipline.
• More than 2 years of relevant experience in Finance Operations or Business Finance.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to understand key requirement across various contracts, engage with multiple stakeholders and manage deadlines of financial deliverables.
• Demonstrated experience and passion for driving automation and digitalisation across Finance and cross-functional teams, with a track record of reducing manual processes and standardising processes and controls.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in day-to-day financial operations, including monitoring of monthly P&L entries to ensure timely recording and accurate month end closing across multiple IFM accounts.
• Assist in establishing strong finance/accounting related processes and continuous improvements to existing processes to ensure compliance with contract requirements, local FRS, US GAAP and SOX controls.
• Prepare monthly management reports, including overall P&L analysis and provide commentaries to account managers and FP&A team on key variances.
• Partner to account managers and business stakeholders to provide financial insights, flag areas of concern and give recommendations to achieve financial targets.
• Prepare annual budgets and monthly forecasts for assigned portfolio.
• Oversee accounts receivable position to ensure prompt billing and payment of invoices, address billing and collection discrepancies to support healthy company cash flow.
• Deliberate automation, digitalisation and standardisation agenda, with clear targets to eliminate manual work, reduce spreadsheet dependency, standardise recurring processes, automate reporting and reconciliations where possible, simplify handoffs and ensure the BU and internal team consistently uses approved systems and common templates.
• Lead change adoption across the Operations Finance function and business stakeholders by embedding new ways of working, managing resistance, driving consistent use of systems and standard processes, and building a sustainable team structure that reduces key-person dependency and ensures continuity of service.
• Support Corporate Finance team for all finance related matters
• Perform any related duties or ad hoc projects as required

Skills

Excel proficiency

Stakeholder communication

Detail-oriented

Automation/digitalisation

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance/Business Admin

Job description

Job Title

Senior/ Finance Executive

About The Role

• Assist in day-to-day financial operations, including monitoring of monthly P&L entries to ensure timely recording and accurate month end closing across multiple IFM accounts
• Assist in establishing strong finance/accounting related processes and continuous improvements to existing processes to ensure compliance with contract requirements, local FRS, US GAAP (revenue and cost recognition) standards and SOX controls
• Prepare monthly management reports, including overall P&L analysis and provide commentaries to account managers and FP&A team on key variances
• Partner to account managers and business stakeholders to provide financial insights, flag areas of concern and give recommendations to achieve financial targets
• Prepare annual budgets and monthly forecasts for assigned portfolio
• Oversee accounts receivable position to ensure prompt billing and payment of invoices, address billing and collection discrepancies to support healthy company cash flow
• Deliberate automation, digitalisation and standardisation agenda, with clear targets to eliminate manual work, reduce spreadsheet dependency, standardise recurring processes, automate reporting and reconciliations where possible, simplify handoffs and ensure the BU and internal team consistently uses approved systems and common templates.
• Lead change adoption across the Operations Finance function and business stakeholders by embedding new ways of working, managing resistance, driving consistent use of systems and standard processes, and building a sustainable team structure that reduces key-person dependency and ensures continuity of service.
• Support Corporate Finance team for all finance related matters
• Perform any related duties or ad hoc projects as required

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or a related discipline.
• More than 2 years of relevant experience in Finance Operations or Business Finance
• Detail-oriented with the ability to understand key requirement across various contracts, engage with multiple stakeholders and manage deadlines of financial deliverables
• Demonstrated experience and passion for driving automation and digitalisation across Finance and cross-functional teams, with a track record of reducing manual processes and standardising processes and controls
• Strong proficiency in Excel, excellent written and verbal communication skills

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.

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