Job Title

Finance Manager

Job Description Summary

The role is responsible for the management of the country finance team 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

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the delivery of the clientâ™s annual budget and monthly forecasting for Taiwan
  • 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, 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 â“ 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.

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS

• Business level English language proficiency.
• Demonstrated experience managing teams will be viewed favourably.
• Minimum 4-5 yearsâ™ experience in a finance manager or senior 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 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 â“ relationship management and responsiveness are critical.
• Property/commercial real estate industry experience will be viewed favourably.
• Understanding of FM/Workplace operations is desirable.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers and filing cabinets. May be required to travel outside between properties in varying weather conditions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate with others and exchange accurate information; operate a computer and other office productivity machinery; move about the workplace; remain in a stationary position for 50% of the time; and extend hands and arms in any direction.

AAP/EEO Statement

Cushman & Wakefield provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, colour, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, C&W takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees during employment are treated without regard to any of these characteristics.  Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

Other Duties

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

INCO: âœCushman & Wakefieldâ