Assistant Finance Manager (Transformation - Process Improvement)

Assistant Finance Manager (Transformation - Process Improvement)

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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1. Advanced Excel Automation & Process Standardization

• System & Process Improvement: Audit legacy regional reports and engineer advanced, dynamic, and automated Excel models (utilizing Power Query, advanced array formulas, VBA/macros etc.) to eliminate manual data input & analysis.
• Regional Standardization: Design, deploy, and enforce uniform financial reporting frameworks and templates across all local country finance teams to ensure absolute data consistency.
• Independent Technical Research: Act as a highly self-sufficient troubleshooter. When faced with model breaks, system limitations, or complex data logic errors, to leverage online research, technical forums, and documentation to find solutions independently.
• ERP Optimization: Utilize Microsoft Dynamics 365 to pull, map, and clean raw data efficiently into standardized reporting models.

 

2. Treasury & Cash Management

• Liquidity & Forecasting: Oversee daily cash management operations, cash positioning, and regional liquidity pools across all SEA business units.
• Cash Flow Forecasting: Develop, maintain, and refine rolling cash forecast models to optimize working capital and minimize idle funds.
• Loan & Debt Administration: Manage the end-to-end administration of corporate loans, revolving credit facilities, interest payments, and covenant compliance monitoring.
• Dividend Distribution: Coordinate, execute, and track regional dividend declarations and cross-border cash repatriations in compliance with local regulatory frameworks.  
• Cash Submission Requirement: Ability to meet and prioritise weekly SEA Cash Flow report to the UK Group Treasury team.

 

3. Regional Consolidation & Stakeholder Management

• Data Aggregation: Aggregate, reconcile, and analyze varied monthly financial submissions from individual country business units into a unified SEA regional reports.
• Cross-Border Liaison: Partner closely with international finance managers and cross-functional stakeholders across various SEA countries to align cash forecasts, accounting closing processes and resolve financial modelling breaks.
• Month-End Closing Requirement: Maintain high operational resilience and remain on standby during critical accounting month-end closing windows to support the wider team through tight regional deadlines.

Qualifications

• Technical Excel Mastery (Mandatory): Advanced to expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel. You must be deeply comfortable with complex nested formulas, data modeling, Power Query, and building automated, error-proof spreadsheets.
• Experience: Minimum of 10+ years of progressive corporate finance or financial analysis experience, with a proven track record of improving reporting processes.
• Problem-Solving Aptitude: Exceptional resourcefulness with the ability to independently research, test, and implement answers to complex technical spreadsheet or data problems online.
• Treasury / Cash Flair: Prior exposure to corporate cash management or treasury is helpful, but a strong logical mindset and a desire to master this function under direct mentorship are highly valued.
• ERP Systems: Hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 is highly advantageous.
• Communication & Resilience: Strong interpersonal skills to manage and influence regional stakeholders across diverse cultural boundaries, alongside a willingness to prioritise fixed accounting and cash flow deadlines.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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