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Senior Manager, Finance Team
Jones Lang LaSalle
Westmont, IL, United States
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Our Senior Finance Manager is accountable for leading a team of Finance and Accounting professionals in general accounting duties including; the creation of annual and quarterly forecasts as well as leading the revenue recognition process. You are accountable for team results and must ensure compliance in all accounting processes. Reporting to an on-Account Finance Director, the Sr. Finance Manager will lead the Account’s Capital Accounting and Accounts Payable Teams. This role places an emphasis on Team leadership, interpersonal relations, problem solving, client relations and on-time completion of deliverables in a demanding environment. The Senior Finance Manager must be able to work in a cross-functional environment with multiple teams, and coordinate multiple competing service deliverables.
What this job involves
• Responsible for oversight of the Capital and Accounts Payable control functions, ensuring adherence to client enterprise policies, quality standards, procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Drive improvements to enhance operational efficiency, ensure timeliness, and accuracy of workflow.
• Build and manage key client and business partner relationships.
• Forecast/manage staffing levels and capacities within each Team.
• Responsible for group performance management.
• Manages a Team that is responsible for providing operational support and project accounting throughout the lifecycle of corporate construction spend and projects.
• Manages the production of critical reporting and analysis for the client, senior management and business partners.
• Responsible for day-to-day operational oversight and ensuring appropriate accounting for project capital and expenses, impaired asset write-offs and booking new fixed assets resulting from completed construction projects.
• Enforce and monitor key metrics to measure and monitor business process performance and drive operational excellence across the team.
• Support JLL technology improvements to address changing business needs and drive efficiency around stronger financial and operational controls. Lead applicable JLL Platform changes.
• Promote team culture to act as a control function to the business versus a processing organization by providing independent evaluation and recommendations and escalating issues observed.
• Provide daily expertise and ongoing training/support for on-Account PDS team and other key business partners to ensure they are current with Capital protocol and procedures.
• Ensure that the pipeline of vendor invoices progresses their full cycle from receipt to payment.
• Internal and external escalations of processing errors, missing data and untimely processing to ensure that Account’s nearly 1 million invoices are processed with exceptional results.
• Ability to document and present end-to-end processes to identify areas for operational and control improvements.
• Sound like you? Before you apply you’ll need:
• A Bachelor's degree (accounting or finance preferred), 7-10 years of operations experience preferred, including extensive supervisory experience.
• Leadership/management experience to include managing and directing highly productive teams.
• Ability to effectively communicate, drive strategy, and influence change with executive level management.
• To build and sustain relationships, manage multiple priorities, engage employees and lead change.
• To Strategically drive continuous process improvements in a cross-functional environment.
• To Drive team goals through to results.
• To Manage risk effectively.
• To navigate through large, complex organizations.
• To successfully operate in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to shifting priorities.
• Demonstrated financial and business acumen with ability to analyze and interpret data, articulating key action items to be implemented.
• to be highly proficient in data aggregation, integration, and analysis.
• The Ability and confidence to present to large and small audiences, in-person and virtually.
• Excellent project/program management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to simplify complex information into messages targeted to various levels of leadership.
• Exceptional attention to detail, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to take ownership, is self-motivated, and is highly organized.
• To prioritize competing deliverables while maintaining quality and production standards.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint with a working knowledge of SharePoint.
• Flexibility to work extended hours during heavy workload periods.
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