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Sr. Manager - Transaction FinanceThe Portfolio Lease Administration Senior Manager oversees the account’s lease portfolio, ensuring accurate lease management, compliance with established policies and best practices, and the integrity of lease and financial data. The role is responsible for leading a team of lease administrators, driving process optimization, and ensuring efficient and scalable lease administration operations.

The Senior Manager is also accountable for optimizing payment workflows, resolving billing discrepancies, and maintaining accurate financial records. Working closely with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders, the role provides strategic insights to enhance service delivery, improve team performance, and strengthen client satisfaction.

In addition, the position supports audit readiness (including SOC 1 compliance), enables adherence to IFRS 16 accounting requirements, ensures strong client engagement, and drives continuous improvement through effective resource optimization and robust operational processes.

About the Role:

• Lead and oversee Portfolio Administration operations across multiple accounts, ensuring timely delivery, service excellence, and achievement of client SLAs and KPIs.
• Manage, mentor, and develop Lease Administration teams, providing coaching, performance feedback, task delegation, and fostering a high-performing team culture.
• Serve as the primary client contact, building strong relationships, leading client meetings, addressing concerns, and ensuring high-quality service delivery.
• Drive operational excellence through process improvements, quality reviews, compliance oversight, risk identification, and implementation of mitigation strategies.
• Provide accurate reporting to clients and senior leadership, monitor account performance, and lead special projects and strategic initiatives as required.

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

• 8+ years related professional experience, including people management experience.

• Intermediate knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) regulations including an intermediate knowledge of financial terms and principles to include accounting methods (cash, accrual, and full GAAP).

• Experience working in a Commercial Real Estate is an added advantage.

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 organization 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.

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