Financial Reporting Accountant

Job Title

Financial Reporting Accountant

Job Description Summary

We are looking for Financial Reporting Accountant to support our Controllership team in the successful delivery of legal entity Controllership responsibilities across several business and service lines, ensuring compliance with global policies. This full-time role will enable an individual to understand process and risk across a global firm and provide a high-level exposure to senior leaders, controllers and other key stakeholders globally. The successful candidate will be primarily tasked with managing the preparation, execution and filing requirements of statutory financial statements across our EMEA entities, having a keen eye for detail and a desire to improve processes is critical to the success of the role.
The role has responsibility to ensure processes are manages under local GAAP and will range from managing and overseeing the conversion of management-to-statutory financial statement processes for local country compliance, through to active participation in the review and oversight of key balance sheet account partnering with the core finance teams across EMEA.

Job Description

About the role:

• Supporting Controllers in internal and external financial reporting activities and maintaining financial control and integrity in line with EMEA Controllership objectives.
• Manage the preparation and integrity of US GaaP to local GaaP trial balance conversion, suitable for key decision support for local audit and compliance requirements.
• Reconcile key balance sheet accounts with quality suitable for audit including SOX compliance as well as local auditors as required.
• Partner key business teams across EMEA as required to build key contextual knowledge for local entities being supported.
• Work across EMEA and Global finance teams to ensure presentation and disclosure of financial information are fairly represented for statutory financial statement (SFS) filings.

About You:

• A newly qualified CPA / ACCA / CIMA accountant with relevant experience in industry or suitably qualified by experience with a degree in Finance & Accounting or other applicable subject.
• 3-5 years experience in Big 4 Accounting firms or industry equivalent.
• A good level of Excel knowledge and experience is essential for analysing data.
• A good understanding of Workday, Hyperion Essbase & HFM is highly desirable.
• Fluent in English, other languages are desirable but not essential.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;

• Career development and a promote from within culture;

• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.

We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.

We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.