Head - Finance - Financial Services

The Global Group provides a highly skilled employee base and state-of-the-art technology to further our key focus on providing best in class Corporate Services to multiple PE real estate portfolio companies. Sectors include Hospitality, Industrial, Multi-Family, Office, Retail, Senior Housing, and Manufactured Homes.

Role Profile :

Relationship and management :

- Understand needs and manage teams to fulfil these requirements.

- Collaborate with teams and finance leadership to ensure seamless service delivery to the highest quality.

- Build a cohesive and integrated working relationship between onshore and offshore finance teams

- Collaborate with business transformation teams for process optimisation, technology team for technology deployment.

- Collaborate with People & Culture team to drive people matters (hiring, performance evaluation, training & development, etc.)

- Stay abreast of global best practices and contribute to global finance operations initiatives.

- Liaise with CoE Finance teams globally to stay abreast with developments and alignment with best practice.

Quality Management :

- Ensure quality of deliverables and services are aligned to excellence required.

- Proactively manage risks, ensuring an open risk culture with clear processes to manage and escalate issues appropriately

- Establish and provide timely reporting of KPI's and service levels to management. Escalation point for onshore team for deliverables and key issues

- Coordinate the performance scoring of CoE teams, present result and facilitate related discussions.

- Implement effective internal controls to comply with the group procedures.

- Ensure adherence to group accounting policy for BREP and BPPA entities.

Team Management :

- Lead and help develop the finance operations team.

- Responsible for establishing strong collaboration and feedback mechanism between SG and CoE team.

- Workload management, analysis and recommendation to improve efficiency and productivity

- Onboard new team members, application of the operating processes.

- Assess team needs, responsible for providing ongoing coaching, training direct reports and developing Finance training programmes.

- Look for opportunities to create cross functional knowledge sharing across CoE

- Monitor appropriateness of team structure.

Transformation Initiatives :

- Work closely with Business Transformation team to identify and drive improvement initiatives to benefit department, ensuring technology and processes and outsourcing are optimized.

- Optimize and standardize processes to drive efficiency.

- Support harmonization of processes across jurisdiction.

- Develop policies and procedures to enhance the efficiency of the department.

Employees specifications :

- Strong team management experience

- Experience in managing shared services

- Process driven and striving for executional excellence

- Senior stakeholders and relationship management experience

- Able to manage in a dynamic, fast-paced and complex environment

- Able to challenge and influence key stakeholders

- Excellent analytical and presentation skills

- Preferred Experience in streamlining business processes

- Preferred Holistic and big picture thinker with ability to zoom into and support on the details when needed

- Preferred Chartered Accountant or equivalent

- 12 - 15 years of experience in service/ shared services industries

- Executional excellence and driving business results

- Coaching skills to effectively empower, engage and develop team members

- Strong leadership, interpersonal, relationship-building skills required with a solid track record in developing internal and external relationships and fostering team spirit

Perquisites :

- Leave / Medical Insurance / Professional training / Professional membership

Reporting to the CFO in Singapore