Client Finance Manager

CLIENT FINANCE MANAGER – WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT

Job Description

What This Job Involves

Support Account Managers & account leadership team in handling business, operational, financial decision making, risk mitigation, other pricing advice and all account specific finance-related matters.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Business Partnering and Contract Management

• Be the trusted financial advisor to the Operations Lead/Account Lead/Account manager, providing data-driven insights to support decision making
• Collaborate with various stakeholders including operation teams, shared service centres and third party service providers
• Identify financial risks and opportunities through analysis of performance indicators
• Point of contact (POC) with client on finance related matters
• Assists with on-going cost saving projects, including identification, monitoring and analysis.
  
  

Financial Management & Control

• Collaborate with site teams and SSC to ensure the lifecycle of vendors PO processing align with JLL policies
• Manage vendor payments and monthly billing in compliance with JLL policies and guidelines
• Monitor accounts receivables to optimise cash flow
• Ensure robust documentation that meet audit requirements and maintain integrity of all financial transactions through effective processes
  
  

Month End Closing

• Lead the month-end closing process (expense/revenue accrual etc) for the business line, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
• Investigate and resolve unusual variances or accounting issues
• Ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies, local reporting standards and client contractual requirements
• Responsible in ensuring month end closing procedures are properly performed and investigated i.e. Bank Reconciliation, GRNV
  
  

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Maintain comprehensive account-level tracker containing key P&L metrics (revenue, costs, management fee etc) and business status and ensure timely update with proper supporting documentation
• Prepare and present month end financial packages with meaningful variance analysis for internal stakeholders
• Partner with the Operations Lead to develop comprehensive annual budget and rolling forecasts
• Monthly, quarterly & ad hoc reporting and variance analyses for client and corporate requirements, Annual budget & quarterly forecasts for both client and corporate
• Working closely with the local country Finance teams on profitability/revenue variances, issues and other requirements and task
• Adhoc scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis
  
  

Process Remediation & Standardisation

• Resolve existing financial process gaps and operational issues within the business line
• Establish robust framework for documentation and financial governance
• Drive process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy and consistency.
  
  

Client invoicing & Collection and Vendor payments

• Manage client invoicing and vendor payments in coordination with JBS
• Support and maintain all necessary guidelines and manuals associated with the accounts payable / receivable process
• Accountable for the timely coordination of the JLL invoice processing and monitoring the accounts receivable ensuring management of JLL cash flow
• Support overall P2P process and provide guidance to account team
  
  

Reporting:

You with be reporting to the Head of REMS Client Finance and Business Partner, WPM (Philippines).

Sound like you Here is what we're looking for:

Being Analytical and Meticulous

Your role will involve coordination with various teams. You will be paying attention to detail and have excellent problem-solving skills. You will be using logic to trouble shoot problems; and assign and monitor financial aspects. You should have a good knowledge of the working procedures.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related discipline
• Preferably a certified accountant (CPA), or equivalent certification
• Minimum of 5 years of finance manager experience
• Candidate with regional exposure in APAC will be an added advantage;
• Experience in leading finance in matrix environment including ability to manage through complexity and ambiguity
• Business partnering and commercial finance experience
• Experience working with regional and shared-services models
• Experienced in navigating complex matrix environments
• Business partnering and commercial finance experience is added advantage