Global Finance Manager (EMEA Grade - Associate)

Job Title
Global Finance Manager (EMEA Grade - Associate)

Job Description Summary
Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global commercial real estate services firm for property owners and occupiers with approximately 52,000 employees in nearly 400 offices and 60 countries. In 2024, the firm reported revenue of $9.4 billion across its core service lines of Services, Leasing, Capital markets, and Valuation and other. Built around the belief that Better never settles, the firm receives numerous industry and business accolades for its award-winning culture. For additional information, visit www.cushmanwakefield.com.

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.

- 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).

- Knowledge required of 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- Supports new business generation with knowledge and experience advice where required.

Leadership and Management

- Appreciates diversity, recognising the needs and welcomes the unique contribution of all colleagues and clients.

- Understands the client’s needs by actively listens to requests from internal and external clients and provides timely assistance with careful attention to detail and effective solutions.

- Enables performance by encouraging and supporting peers, colleagues and team through constructive feedback, workload management and transfer of knowledge.

- Owns own development by building own skills by consistently pursing growth opportunities; seeks a mentor and is willing to coach colleagues.

- Acts as the client and vendor relationship manager and develops client and vendor engagement.

- Courageous by sharing timely and tactful opinions and sharing constructive feedback to others.

- Supports and develops early talent.
- Trusted Advisor and Expert
- Decisive and addresses issues/queries quickly and accurately

- Makes informed decisions and takes responsibility for outcomes.

- Supports colleagues in meeting client needs.

- Establishes credibility by staying current in own field and pursues opportunities to demonstrate expertise and share knowledge.

- Communicates proactively with all relevant levels of the organisation to obtain and share information.

- Actively listens to determine clients' most critical business needs.

Qualifications:

- undefined

- Qualified Accountant or relevant business degree with minimum 5 years post qualification experience.

Skills & Behaviours:

- Strong numerical and analytical skills and excellent attention to detail.

- Proven team management skills.

- Track record of producing timely management information to both client and company deadlines

- Knowledge of wider accounting practices e.g. IFRS, UK and US GAAP and reporting in a multi-currency environment would be desirable but not essential

- Knowledge and experience of major accounting applications, financial processes and control systems in the property services sector would be desirable but not essential, together with prime MS Office products

- Fluent business English essential.

- Excellent communication skills and ability to interface at all levels with a wide range of stakeholders including Client, Account team and C&W management.

- Ability to travel to Client sites and CW Corporate offices occasionally.

- Proactive self-motivator with ability to work on own initiative, but also as a strong team player.

- Depth of experience to draw on and proactively contributes to both the account success, but also to CW FM.

- Tenacious but amiable.

- An individual who strives for continuous improvement.

Cushman & Wakefield is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic. Cushman & Wakefield is committed to equity in employment, and our goal is to have a diverse, inclusive and barrier-free workplace. If you are a person with a disability and need any other accessible accommodations during the hiring process, you are invited to bring this to the Talent Acquisition Advisor’s attention once they have made contact.

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