Regional Finance Lead

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Regional Finance Lead

Work Dynamics

What this job involves

The Regional Finance Manager will be overseeing client operation expenses for client’s property portfolio across JAPAC.   As the key member of the finance team, the role will provide leadership to the operations team with financial insights and drive value to the client. He/she is responsible for the governance over day-to-day financial and accounting operations with focus on the client’s reporting requirements at local and regional levels.  The right candidate must have the ability to establish and maintain strategic stakeholder relationships, both externally with the client and internally within JLL.  The Regional Finance Manager will also be responsible for managing and analyzing operational data across the client’s property portfolio interfacing with operations team to complete a range of benchmarking and analytical exercises.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leadership

  • Provides clear direction and strategic financial advice to operations team and finance team

  • Balances local and regional requirements to cater for local client reporting requirements and regional requirements

• Budgeting/Forecasting and Reporting

  • Timely and accurate production of bi-annual budgets and monthly forecasts for the client in conjunction with operations leads in each city.

  • Bottoms up strategic planning with YoY and MoM analysis.

  • Monthly in-depth variance analysis on forecast vs budget/prior forecast

  • Continually review financials applying a risk-based approach ensuring submissions are owned by the operations team.

  • Ensures flow of information that supports and results in accountability and ownership.

  • Develop systems and processes to enable benchmarking analytics across the Client’s portfolio.

• Client/Stakeholder Management

  • Customer service orientated, a primary liaison with the client’s country leadership for both operations and finance.

  • Leads by example and coaches the finance team in achieving maximum client satisfaction levels.

  • Detailed understanding of the Master Service Agreement commercials including contractual adjustments methodology and criteria

• Data Management, Policies & Procedures and Audit

  • Ensures governance over data integrity of the systems

  • Ensures that appropriate process and system controls are in place and maintained to guarantee the integrity of all financial transactions.

  • Ensure that all financial accounting and reporting is audit worthy and in keeping with recognized quality management processes.

Interested?  An ideal candidate would need to have the following qualifications

Desired experience and technical skills

Required

Ideal Experience

• In a Finance/Accounting role at a MNC for 10 years or greater with a proven track record of performance at a senior level.

• Qualified Accountant.

• Strong analytical, organizational and coordination skills.

Critical Competencies for Success

• Technical Competence

  • Ability to draw coherent input from a variety of functional units to compile concise financial information

  • Demonstrated experience with client reporting including preparation of straight forward executive summaries

• Quest for Excellence

  • Has an eye for detail, while not losing sight of the larger picture

  • Goal-oriented, able to focus on meeting all performance targets

• Problem Solving & Strategic Thinking

  • Capacity to deal with ambiguity and solve complex problems effectively

  • Analytical, proven ability to solve problems using an objective approach

  • Proven ability to employ holistic approaches and look towards long term solutions

• Project Management & Organizational Skills

  • Excellent planning & organizational skills to prioritize work and meet local and regional deadlines

  • Team player and flexible, focused on the best outcome for all.

Other Personal Characteristics

• Demonstrates ability to build and retain key stakeholder relationships – able to interact across all media, including face to face with external clients at country and regional levels.

• Demonstrates superior people management skills

  • Instills a culture amongst the account client finance team that reflects JLL’s core behaviors and values of being an Expert, Proactive, Innovative, Versatile, Team Player and valuing the Customer

  • Leads teams effectively, trains them well and establishes forward looking succession plans

  • Promotes open, constructive and collaborative relationships at all levels

• Clear communicator at local and regional levels – presentation skills and possesses strong verbal & written communication skills; also an active listener

• Self-motivated and a positive “can-do” attitude.

• Proactive and flexible – able to adapt to rapidly changing situations

• Proven ability to initiate and follow through with improvement initiatives

• Able to work independently and be a team player

• Ability to effectively deal with stressful situations

• Exhibits honesty, trustworthiness and high standards of personal integrity

• Challenging colleagues, supporting an open culture for new ideas and willing to challenge status quo

• Ability to recognize when and who to escalate issues

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the requirements.  We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

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