Finance Manager

Job Title

Finance Manager

Job Description Summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a motivated and experienced Finance Manager to join our Controllership team in Sydney. This is a crucial position offering the opportunity to work closely with the Financial Controller (“FC”) and the CFO while managing your own team of finance professionals.
As a Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the financial integrity of the company while driving continuous process improvement, operational performance, and efficiency. This is an excellent opportunity to develop within a publicly listed global business and contribute to its ongoing success.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Financial Reporting:

• Support the FC in managing the governance of control environments, leveraging knowledge of JDE/Workday, HFM, and Essbase interdependencies.
• Improve controls around non-SOX reporting business units in journal entries, revenue, and cost accruals using existing templates and processes.
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of balance sheet reconciliations using tools like on Blackline.
• Drive governance and compliance audits on a periodic basis.

Treasury and Cash Generation:

• Support the FC in unlocking working capital, focusing on AR collections, minimizing provisions, and reducing unbilled revenue.
• Assist in managing bank guarantees, treasury facilities, and related RFAs to ensure timely renewals, cancellations, and new requests.
• Proactively reduce interest costs by negotiating and managing banking instruments.

Payroll Reporting:

• Support the FC in payroll reporting, forecasting, and reconciliation.
• Assist the HR/payroll team in resolving legacy and new payroll issues, including transition activities.

Tax Reporting:

• Safeguard profitability and cash flows by minimizing non-compliance penalties and interest charges.
• Develop detailed work papers to unlock low-value pool asset costs and offset tax liabilities.
• Manage ATO SoA reconciliation with books to ensure minimal overpayments.

Talent Management:

• Lead and manage a team of onshore and offshore accountants, ensuring quality deliverables, performance, and task execution.
• Serve as a backup to support reporting timelines and team development as needed.

Driving Process Efficiencies:

• Support the FC in driving process improvements and system implementation initiatives.
• Conduct user acceptance testing and communicate gaps and issues to improve systems and processes.

Qualifications:

• Qualified Accountant (CA/CPA)
• Minimum of 8 years' experience in a multinational controllership team
• In-depth knowledge of US GAAP and IFRS
• Proficiency in SOX documentation and compliance
• Strong background in cash conversion cycle and reporting
• Knowledge of tax governance and audits
• Hands-on experience in balance sheet review and reconciliation
• Previous experience in a shared service environment is an advantage
• Proven leadership experience, managing teams of at least 5 people
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• High attention to detail and accuracy, with the ability to work with minimal guidance and manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Strong organizational and time management skills

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 them 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.

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.

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