MUMBAI · FULLTIME
Manager - Property Finance

WPP
Mumbai · onsite · Posted 4d ago
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About this role
Job Summary
What you'll be doing
Stakeholder Management Executive Presentations
FPA and Transformation
What you'll need
Who you are
Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.
We are seeking an experienced and articulate Finance Manager to join our Global Real Estate Finance team in Mumbai. In this role, you will hold key ownership of real estate cost tracking and business casing, with specialized expertise in IF(Leases) and modelling sublease arrangements across multiple global jurisdictions. The role would also involve engaging with our global FPA function to help model long term plans and company wide establishment tracking.
This position requires exceptional communication and presentation capabilities across a global network of properties from the World Trade Centre in New York to large London campuses. You will collaborate daily with global stakeholders-including Global Real Estate Leads, Regional Finance Directors, and Executive Leadership-translating complex international lease accounting data into clear, visual, and compelling executive presentations.
What you'll be doing
Global IFSublease Technical Accounting
- Global Portfolio Ownership: Drive technical accounting and financial compliance under IFacross the enterprise s global real estate and asset lease portfolio.
- Sublease Accounting Management: Manage complex global subleasing transactions, including derecognition of head-lease ROU assets, evaluation of net investment in subleases (finance vs. operating classification), and foreign currency impacts across regions.
- Technical Guidance: Serve as the SME on international lease standard updates, lease vs. buy models, and landlord concessions for regional operational teams.
Stakeholder Management Executive Presentations
- Executive Presentations: Create high-impact PowerPoint/Google Slides presentation decks summarizing global estate financial performance, balance sheet exposures, and cost-optimization trends for C-suite and regional leaders.
- Global Business Partnering: Partner with Global Corporate Real Estate (CRE), Procurement, and Regional Finance teams to present financial implications and scenario modelling for prospective lease renewals, relocations, or subleases.
- Communicate complex technical accounting metrics clearly to non-finance regional stakeholders across different time zones.
FPA and Transformation
- Tracking our total spend on real estate and working alongside transformation teams to understand cash and PL impact of various transactions
- Helping the team build out a global function and setting standards and guidelines for our wider group of portfolio companies.
What you'll need
Education Professional Certification
- Chartered Accountant (CA), ACCA, CPA, or equivalent professional qualification.
- Bachelor s/Master s degree in Commerce, Finance, or Accounting.
Technical Experience
- 4-7+ years of post-qualification finance experience, preferably within a Global Capability Center (GCC), Multinational Corporation (MNC), or Big 4 audit firm.
- Hands-on mastery of IF and global sublease accounting, including multi-currency lease schedule management.
- Solid background in general financial controllership, ledger controls, and cross-border financial reporting.
- Proficiency with enterprise ERPs (SAP, NetSuite, Oracle) and specialized lease accounting tools (e.g., CoStar, LeaseQuery, MRI, Nakisa).
Communication Global Stakeholder Skills
- Advanced presentation skills-proven ability to build clean, executive-ready decks and present seamlessly to global stakeholders.
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills for working across Asia-Pacific, EMEA, and Americas time zones.
ERP Knowledge
- Knowledge of major consolidation ERPs would be highly desirable
Who you are
Youre open
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we are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working. Youre optimistic
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we approach all that we do with confidence: to try the new and to seek the unexpected. Youre extraordinary: We are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.
Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.
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Executive leadershipEnglish CommunicationcounselerpsclassificationArticulateControllershipenterprise solutionsaccountantBusiness PartneringERPCorporate Real EstateChartered AccountantAccountingcomplianceBalance Sheet
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WPP
Marketing & Advertising
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1985
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