COE Team Lead, Finance

Job Title

COE Team Lead, Finance

Job Description Summary

The COE Team Lead for AU Controllership will be a handson accountant with offshore experience, overseeing the daily operations of the offshore team, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
This role involves managing a team of accountants, coordinating with onshore counterparts, and ensuring timely compliance with accounting standards and company policies.

Job Description

About The Role:

• Financial reportingOversee the delivery of scheduled and ad-hoc tasks, ensuring timely completion.
• Reconciliation/ DocumentationEnsure the timely and accurate reconciliation of all GL accounts and maintain documentation in compliance with regulatory and internal requirements.
• Reconciliation/ DocumentationReview work quality and ensure agreed checks and balances are performed
• CoordinationMaintain planners and checklists in a timely manner, and communicate any anticipated delays to the onshore team for agreement.
• Team ManagementManage daily team availability, daily workload and monthly performance KPIs
• Training and development Ensure team members are cross-skilled to reduce individual dependencies.
• Training and developmentPlan for team succession and retention, and provide opportunities for professional and behavioral development training.
• Process improvementDevelop and implement process improvement plans, outlining key success behaviors.
• Process improvementEnsure process notes are documented and updated, including escalation criteria and matrices, and detail key check points.
• AdhocSupport hiring manager with adhoc requests

About You:

• EducationCA Intermediate or finalist
• Experienceminimum 10 years experience in reporting and controllership activities
• AccountingWorking knowledge in accounting and application of accounting principals
• SpecificHas managed offshore team previously
• LeadershipManaged and developed a team of junior finance talent
• SystemKnowledge in MS Excel and powerpoint
• CommunicationExcellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Attention to detailHigh level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Resiliance/ AdaptabilityAbility to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Problem solvingStrong analytical skills and the ability to resolve documentation and reconciliation issues.
• Team player Collaborative approach with the ability to work effectively with multicultural teams.

KPIs   

• Demonstrate clear understanding and effective use of CW accounting and reporting systems and their interdependencies.
• Consistently deliver agreed tasks and outcomes on a daily, monthly, and quarterly basis.
• Maintain a high standard of quality in all deliverables.
• Achieve high levels of team retention, motivation, and morale.
• Cross skill team members, schedule team availability and prepare for contingencies

What’s on Offer?

• A transparent and highly motivating commission structure
• Opportunity to work in an enterprising environment where you can accelerate your career growth
• A collaborative and Industry leading team oriented platform locally, nationally and regionally

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;
• Career development and a promote from within culture;
• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

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