Chief Financial Officer – Global Occupier Services

Chief Financial Officer – Global Occupier Services Job Description Summary

The CFO GOS will lead the Finance function within our Global Occupier Services division of Cushman Wakefield which includes over 100 clients and 200+ finance and accounting professionals. The successful candidate will refine and execute the strategy for Global Occupier Services by partnering closely with GOS leadership, client teams, as well as other senior business leaders. He/she reports to the Cushman and Wakefield Global CFO, with dotted line reporting to the Chief Executive of GOS.

The Global Occupier Services division of Cushman Wakefield creates transformative outsourcing partnerships; implementing solutions that help our clients improve the productivity of their real estate portfolio.

• Trusted Business Advisor to the GOS Executive Leadership team
• Lead all efforts to transform GOS finance practices across regions, service lines and functions to support exciting growth outlook
• Change agent, with a relentless focus on governance, controls, organization design, resourcing, and productivity
• Attract, place, and retain top talent within the GOS finance teams
• Think client first, working simultaneously to develop a relationship with client teams as well as business leadership
• Develop best practices, goals, and feedback to develop each team member.
• Manage a team-based environment, assessing talent and working with Finance leadership and HR to effectively match skill sets and client requirements.
• Work closely with HR to track internal and external talent to achieve a high-performing finance team
• Establish defined career paths for teams, and succession and growth planning concepts.
• Represent GOS perspective in global leadership community including partnerships with other global functions and leaders in other geographies / service lines

• Develop and execute the strategy and vision of Global Occupier Services
• Strategic thought leader keenly focused on finance governance AND partnering with leadership to drive growth and high-performing teams
• Identify risks and opportunities to management, and recommend strategies to achieve region's goals
• Ensure consistent communication of results, forecasts, and action plans to both CWS and GOS Leadership
• Enforce policy adherence and process compliance consistent with multiple audit standards (SOX, SOC-1, SOC-2, etc.)
• Ensure high standards of financial control are maintained and that appropriate systems and internal controls are implemented, reviewed and validated.
• Drive consistency in operational practices across client teams and across regions to ensure seamless delivery and client experience

• Develop and lead direction for GOS finance to support exciting growth outlook (annual budget, 3 year growth plan, client specific growth plans, etc.)
• Perform Monthly and ad-hoc value-added analysis of results against budgets/forecasts – drive consistent framework / approach across clients and across regions
• Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities to the operations and financial results
• Drive operating cadence with GOS business leaders increasing accountability and action-oriented behaviors
• Manage working capital including optimizing cash flow and capital allocation within GOS
• Review and drive client contract profitability
• Manage the client accounting function with a focus on efficiency and client satisfaction

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance and a minimum of 15+ years of progressively responsible experience in a financial management function. 10+ years of supervisory experience. Real estate experience strongly preferred
• CPA and/or MBA is preferred
• Understand SOC1 and SOX Compliance
• Ability to manage numerous client relationships, both externally and internally.
• Experience as a department head including business planning, budgeting, personnel management and staff modeling.
• Strong manager; care for and support staff; developing great new managers
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal and presentation skills
• Detailed oriented and strong organizational skills
• Demonstrated…