Finance Manager

Institute of Management Accountants, Inc.; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading finance and accounting organization in the UK is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to oversee Accounts Payable and manage financial activities. This role requires a Commerce or Finance graduate with 4-5 years of relevant experience and strong IT skills, including Excel and BI tools. Responsibilities include optimizing invoicing processes and collaborating with various departments for efficient financial management. Opportunities for career development and a supportive work culture focused on diversity and inclusion are offered.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Comprehensive employee benefits program

Qualifications

• Business level English language proficiency (written and verbal).
• Commerce/Finance/Accounting graduate with 4-5 years experience in a finance manager or senior property accounting role.
• Demonstrated experience working with large data volumes.
• Strong IT skills including Excel, PowerPoint and BI tools.

Responsibilities

• Drive efficiencies and mitigate risk by communicating vendor issues.
• Review vendor invoices daily in various AP processing stages.
• Assist with the development of operational standards and playbooks.
• Proactively review workplace systems to innovate and improve business performance.

Job description

Job Title

Finance Manager

Job Description Summary

The Finance Manager is responsible for Accounts Payable and overall Financial Management contributions to support the end-to-end delivery of finance activities for a globally recognised banking and financial services sector client to enable the achievement of their real estate goals. The role will carry out a variety of end of month accounting and finance-related activities and will be required to liaise effectively with facilities, finance, real estate services and project management peers, both within India and regionally.

Job Description

About the role:

0% Overdue Payable

• Communicate vendor issues to Operations and Sourcing leads to drive efficiencies and mitigate risk.
• Review vendor invoices daily in various AP processing stages.
• Work with the Finance Operations Hub (Philippines) to prioritize invoices nearing due date.

Validate Saving Initiatives

• Work with procurement to review saving initiatives pipelines.
• Work closely with procurement teams to validate savings.

Other

• Assist with the development of operational standards / playbooks / operating manuals for various financial aspects of the business.
• Occasional requirement to work extended hours during peak times or to assist with major functions/events.
• Perform any other tasks as reasonably requested by your manager.
• Proactively review workplace systems / processes to innovate and continuously improve the business performance and workplace experience.
• Take ownership of the Contract Change Control review process.

General Responsibilities

• Articulate and live the Cushman & Wakefield culture, model organizational values and required behavior and hold others (employees and peers) accountable for their actions by identifying and acting on behaviour which is inconsistent with agreed standards.
• Comply with all Cushman & Wakefield policies and processes.
• Understand the Cushman & Wakefield brand and service offerings.
• Work safely and avoid placing yourself or anyone else’s health and safety at risk by your acts or omissions.

About you

• Business level English language proficiency (written and verbal).
• Commerce/Finance/Accounting graduate with minimum 4-5 years’ experience in a finance manager or senior property accounting role - CA or equivalent post-graduate qualifications will be viewed favourably.
• Demonstrated experience working with large data volumes.
• Experience working with regional teams will be viewed favourably.
• Strong IT skills including Excel, PowerPoint and BI tools.

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 organization 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, gender, 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.