Job Title
Sr. Manager, FP&A – APAC & EMEA Services
Job Description Summary
We are seeking a highly analytical, commercially adept, and proactive Senior Manager, FP&A to lead financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and business partnering activities across our APAC and EMEA real estate services operations.
This role will serve as a strategic advisor to regional and global business leaders, providing financial insights and decision support that drive profitable growth, operational excellence, and business performance. The successful candidate will own the end-to-end planning process, including the annual operating plan, monthly rolling forecasts, management reporting, month end close, and financial analysis. The role will partner closely with on-account client finance managers, ensuring client financial performance translates to corporate results.
The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, global environment, possesses strong commercial acumen, and can operate independently while building strong relationships with senior stakeholders across finance, operations, client delivery, and executive leadership.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
- Lead the annual operating plan (AOP) process across APAC and EMEA for GOS’s Integrated Facilities Management, Programs and Projects, and Space Planning and Occupancy Service Lines (collectively “Services”), including template development, regional coordination, business reviews, consolidation, planning system submissions, and executive presentations.
- Own the monthly rolling forecast cycles for revenue, contribution margin, operating expenses, headcount, and profitability.
- Consolidate client results and forecasts into executive-level reporting packages and business reviews.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance financial models to improve forecast accuracy.
- Prepare long-range plans and strategic financial analyses to support business growth initiatives.
Business Partnership & Commercial Finance
- Serve as a trusted finance business partner to regional Executive Account Directors, Account Directors, Operations leaders, and Client Finance teams across APAC and EMEA.
- Provide actionable financial insights and recommendations to support strategic and operational decision-making.
- Support staffing, resource allocation, organizational structure changes, and investment decisions through financial modeling and analysis.
- Partner closely with Client Finance teams and Shared Services organizations
- Review and validate pricing models, proformas, burden rate assumptions, and profitability analyses.
- Ensure pricing accurately reflects client requirements, operational costs, and target margin expectations.
- Support Onboarding and Transition of new clients from a corporate financial perspective, ensuring transitions are implemented accurately and on schedule, and financial outcomes align with underwritten expectations.
Financial Reporting & Performance Analysis
- Own month-end client financial reporting processes, ensuring client-level results are accurately and consistently presented across EMEA and APAC regions.
- Own monthly management reporting processes, including actual-to-budget, actual-to-forecast, and year-over-year variance analysis.
- Develop financial dashboards, KPI reporting, and business intelligence reporting to improve visibility into business performance.
- Monitor and challenge all P&L line items to drive financial discipline and profitability improvements.
- Monitor intercompany agreements, allocations, cost transfers, and corporate reporting requirements.
- Monitor Accounts Receivable balances and resolve roadblocks to prompt debt collection
- Analyze client account profitability, revenue performance, direct labor utilization, and overhead spending trends.
- Present financial results and recommendations to senior management and executive stakeholders.
- Drive standardization and best practices across APAC and EMEA finance operations.
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, 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.
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