Finance Manager

Job Title

Finance Manager

Job Description Summary

The role is responsible for the management of the country finance team (1 x direct report) to support the end-to-end delivery of finance activities for a globally recognised banking and financial services sector client to enable the achievement of their real estate goals. The role will carry out a variety of end of month accounting and finance-related activities and will be required to liaise effectively with facilities, real estate services and project management peers, both within Taiwan and regionally.

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of the client’s annual budget and monthly forecasting for Taiwan
o Working closely with operations teams to build and validate annual bottom-up budgets.
o 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, 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.
• Provision of mentoring and support to internal customers from all streams including direct reports.
• Provision and maintenance of substantiating documentation to support balance sheet reconciliations.
• Solve complex issues (including taxation), address ad hoc internal and client requests and make recommendations on resolutions in the event of escalations.
• Working closely with operations teams to ensure vendor compliance as it relates to the timely submission of invoices.
• Working across multiple financial systems to carry out the above tasks.

Background and Experience:

• 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 using the Microsoft Power BI platform.
• 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.

Qualifications & Technical Skills:
• Business level English language proficiency.
• Demonstrated experience managing teams will be viewed favourably.
• Minimum 4-5 years' experience in a finance manager or senior property accounting role.
• Strong IT skills including Excel, PowerPoint and BI tools.

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”