Cushman & Wakefield Singapore | Assistant Finance Manager / Finance Manager

Responsibilities

• This is a hands-on Assistant Finance Manager / Finance Manager role responsible for managing and supporting financial closing, reporting, tax, treasury, and compliance matters.
• The incumbent will ensure activities are completed accurately, on time, and in line with Group policies, statutory requirements, internal control standards, and business needs, with the level of ownership calibrated according to appointment level and experience.
• Manage and/or support the financial closing process in compliance with US GAAP, FRS, and Group reporting requirements.
• Ensure accurate and timely preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
• Oversee, manage, and/or support month-end closing activities to ensure accurate and timely revenue and cost recognition.
• Analyze P&L variances month‑over‑month, perform Balance Sheet reconciliations, and advise on appropriate corrective actions and accounting treatments.
• Review unbilled, deferred revenue, and cost positions with the Business, in conjunction with the Controllership and FP&A teams, to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Manage and/or support intercompany accounting, reconciliations, eliminations, settlements, and global recharge arrangements, ensuring transactions are appropriately supported, recorded, and aligned with Group policies.
• Manage and/or support inventory system management, accounting, and reconciliation.
• Support and maintain internal controls and compliance frameworks in accordance with corporate and financial policies.
• Support and maintain SOX processes across the organization, ensuring compliance and timely remediation of control gaps.
• Ensure timely preparation, review, and retention of audit‑ready control evidence.
• Tax, Transfer Pricing & Treasury.
• Manage and/or support transfer pricing documentation, intercompany recharge governance, and related audit queries, ensuring appropriate documentation of pricing methodologies, service arrangements, and supporting evidence.
• Review global recharges and cross-border intercompany transactions to ensure proper accounting treatment, tax compliance, settlement tracking, and alignment with contractual and policy requirements.
• Assess and coordinate withholding tax obligations on cross-border payments, including service fees, royalties, management fees, and other applicable payments, working with internal and external tax advisors where required.
• Support tax restructuring initiatives, including assessment of operating model changes, intercompany arrangements, legal entity rationalisation, cash repatriation, and related tax, accounting, treasury, and compliance implications.
• Prepare, review, and/or oversee timely submission of GST filings, reconciliations, and supporting schedules, including follow-up on GST treatment, input tax claims, output tax reporting, and audit requests.
• Provide practical finance support on business tax inquiries, including tax treatment of customer contracts, supplier arrangements, intercompany charges, expense reimbursements, and ad hoc commercial transactions.
• Manage and/or support treasury operations including cash flow monitoring, bank account administration, payment controls, working capital planning, and coordination with Group Treasury and banking partners.
• Statutory Reporting and Audits.
• Prepare, review, and/or support year-end statutory financial statements in accordance with FRS.
• Act as a key finance liaison with internal and external auditors, risk, and compliance teams.
• Coordinate and/or support the annual audit process, ensuring financial statements are clean, accurate, and represent a true and fair view.
• Track, resolve, and document audit findings and follow‑up actions in a timely manner.
• Support tax audits, IRAS inquiries, transfer pricing reviews, GST reviews, and withholding tax queries by coordinating information requests and maintaining audit-ready documentation.
• Act as a finance business partner, providing financial, tax, treasury, and working capital insights to support strategic decision-making and risk-aware commercial execution, with scope and autonomy commensurate with appointment level.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align financial objectives with business priorities and ensure effective financial management.
• Work closely with business units, legal, FP&A, controllership, tax, and treasury teams to assess the finance, tax, cash flow, and compliance implications of new contracts, business initiatives, operating model changes, and tax restructuring projects.
• Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or control weaknesses in finance processes and drive remediation actions.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Singapore Financial Reporting Standards (FRS), US GAAP, statutory reporting requirements, and financial controls.
• Hands-on experience in month-end and year-end closing, financial reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, and P&L analysis.
• Good understanding of SOX compliance, internal controls, risk management frameworks, and audit requirements.

Cushman & Wakefield Ltd.

Cushman & Wakefield was incorporated in New York in 1917 by J. Clydesdale Cushman and his brother-in-law Bernard Wakefield. In 2015 it merged with DTZ, a property services group then owned by a private equity consortium, and the combined firm kept the Cushman & Wakefield name. It listed on the New York Stock Exchange in August 2018 under the symbol CWK. Its main service lines are leasing, capital markets (property sales and investment), valuation, and property, facility and project management services. In November 2025 the parent company moved its place of incorporation from England and Wales to Bermuda and became Cushman & Wakefield Ltd.; its global headquarters is in Chicago.

• Industry: Commercial real estate services: leasing, capital markets, valuation, and property, facility and project management
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, United States (incorporated in Bermuda; listed on the NYSE as CWK)