Senior Finance Executive

About the role

Cushman & Wakefield is looking for a Senior/Finance Executive to support its Operations Finance function. The role covers day-to-day financial operations, reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and leads the automation and digitalisation agenda across the finance function.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor monthly P&L entries to ensure timely recording and accurate month-end closing across multiple IFM accounts.
• Help establish finance and accounting processes and continuous improvements that meet contract requirements, local FRS, US GAAP revenue and cost recognition standards and SOX controls.
• Prepare monthly management reports with P&L analysis and commentaries on key variances for account managers and the FP&A team.
• Partner with account managers and business stakeholders to give financial insights, flag concerns and recommend actions to hit financial targets.
• Prepare annual budgets and monthly forecasts for the assigned portfolio.
• Oversee accounts receivable, ensuring prompt billing and payment and resolving billing and collection issues.
• Drive automation, digitalisation and standardisation: eliminate manual work, reduce spreadsheet dependency, automate reporting and reconciliations, and ensure the business unit and team use approved systems and templates.
• Lead change adoption across Operations Finance, embed new ways of working, manage resistance and build a sustainable team structure that reduces key-person dependency.
• Support the Corporate Finance team and carry out other finance-related duties and ad hoc projects.

Required profile

• 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, able to understand requirements across various contracts, engage multiple stakeholders and manage financial deadlines.
• Demonstrated experience and passion for automation and digitalisation, with a track record of reducing manual processes and standardising controls.

Required skills

• Strong proficiency in Excel.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

What we offer

• A growing global company with a promotion-from-within culture and career development.
• Flexible and agile work environment focused on technology and autonomy.
• Comprehensive employee benefits program.
• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.