Job Title

Finance Manager

Job Description Summary

We are looking for a dynamic and strategic Finance Manager to play a pivotal role in our Client Finance Team. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with account teams, corporate leadership, and clients, ensuring financial excellence and compliance with accounting standards.

In this role, you will lead financial processes, reporting, and analysis, equipping operations with the insights needed to achieve budgets and business targets. You will have a dual focus on client and corporate finance, with a clear pathway toward a stronger emphasis on corporate finance strategy.

Job Description

Develop and maintain annual budget and monthly forecasts

Manage and complete monthly, quarterly, an annual reporting including variance analysis

Coordinate with corporate finance and manage and understand C&W Services P&L

Work together with the rest of the high performing client team on both client and corporate requirements.

Track financial contractual requirements.

Support the client, the account team, and corporate management

Ensure budgets are achieved, manage the P&L

Help to identify and minimize financial risks

Ensure corporate policies and procedures are adhered to

Supervise a financial analyst and work closely with the rest of the client finance team, the rest of the account team, corporate finance, and shared services

Design, review, and prepare monthly reporting

Maintain and improve budget model

Be able to grasp concepts quickly and adapt to continual change

Adept at Balance Sheet management

Experience with management reporting and understanding a report’s audience and what that audience will do with the information

Manage accruals and allocations as needed.

Maintain controls procedures and documentation

Review monthly financial results and business metrics for the account as a whole, as well as each location.  Identify issues and proposes corrective actions to the Finance Director. 

Coordinates the financial/business planning and forecasting process for the account, as well as each site.  Interactively works with upper management and provide input and guidance to managers. 

Ad hoc analysis

You will have:

8+ years related professional experience – FP&A, controllership, operations support, and/or public accounting

Experience working with customers and being a business partner, much more than closing the books

Budgeting experience

Financial modelling experience

Experience with invoices and PO’s

Strong accounting background/ foundation

Strong analytical and communication skills supported by advanced Excel skills.

Experience with systems and processes around work orders, PO’s and ERP Systems (JDE Edwards and Oracle ideal but not required)

Strong sense of urgency, attention to detail, takes ownership of work product, high customer service level, resilience and a can-do attitude

Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting

CPA or MBA preferred but not required

Understanding of applicable software, such as Microsoft Office.

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. 

Ability to lead and control financial results in a matrixed, multi-location field operation with many sites.

Key Competencies

Proficient in assessing customer needs

Excellent negotiation and business acumen skills needed

Skilled in communicating effectively with all levels of management on complex business issues

Excellent customer service skills

Excellent oral, written and presentation skills

Excellent ability to work as part of a team

Financial planning and analysis experience and familiarity with financial concepts, budgeting, forecasting, proforma, outlooks, variance analysis and client reporting.

Effective in managing conflict

Working knowledge of Workday, JD Edwards, and Oracle preferred.

Advanced Excel skills required

Solid  accounting foundation required

As an equal opportunity employer, Cushman & Wakefield encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates to apply. Cushman & Wakefield promotes safety at all times.

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”