Chief Financial Officer | Greater China

Colliers International is the fastest growing Commercial Real Estate Services provider globally. Here at Colliers, we pride ourselves on our enterprising, collaborative and growth mindset culture. This growth and our commitment to investing in our people and platform has created the need for an enterprising finance professional to join our team as the Chief Financial Officer | Greater China. This newly created position’s key objective is to work with the Managing Director | China, Managing Director | Hong Kong, the Greater China Leadership Team and the Chief Financial Officer | Asia Pacific to deliver year-on-year EBITDA growth.

This person will actively influence the continued growth & success of Colliers in Greater China by partnering with the Greater China Leadership team and the Chief Operating Officer | APAC to ensure the appropriate support systems, processes and infrastructures are in place to optimise EBITDA in all market conditions and enable the Managing Director | China and Managing Director | Hong Kong to concentrate on strategic growth.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage the company’s Greater China financial operations, including budgeting, forecasting, and auditing
• Lead the Finance and accounting team and ensure their ongoing professional development and training
• Actively influence the execution of the business plan to deliver the budgeted profit
• Lead the budget process and day to day financial operations by managing the local finance teams across Greater China
• Ensure risks are actively managed through compliance with all relevant legal and internal company guidelines
• Optimize the company’s operating cash flow
• Partner with internal audit to manage company’s risk across all level and all businesses
• Ensure data integrity of the systems across the region and that appropriate process and system controls are in place
• Setting best practice standards with regards to controlling and mitigate operational tax risk as well as develop and maintain relationships with relevant tax officials and regulatory authorities
• Partner with business leaders to understand service line and geographic business requirements and optimise the Finance resources to deliver service excellence
• Oversee the Information Technology platform for the Greater China region, in partnership with the regional IT leaders
• Lead and/or support strategic projects and initiatives
• Optimise structures and processes to keep pace with the internal growth and industry changes that Colliers experience across Greater China.
• Be aware of what our competition is doing to identify threats and opportunities for our business
• Participate in and on occasion lead China/ Hong Kong Leadership meetings, providing impactful contributions to discussion and solutions.
• Deliver commercial decisions on investments in platform & significant costs across the business
• Project manage modelling, due diligence and integration of acquisitions, including integrating finance post-acquisition – e.g. monitoring the performance of the purchase and tying in with final payments
• Partner with local Finance leaders and HOD’s for financial modelling for market leading hires and team lifts

Colliers is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. With operations in 66 countries, our 19,000 enterprising professionals work collaboratively to provide expert real estate and investment advice to clients. For more than 28 years, our experienced leadership with significant inside ownership has delivered compound annual investment returns of approximately 20% for shareholders. With annual revenues of $4.5 billion and $98 billion of assets under management, Colliers maximizes the potential of property and real assets to accelerate the success of our clients, our investors, and our people.

The successful candidate will be possessing the following skills and qualifications:

• An Executive Leader of the highest quality
• Holds an professional accounting qualification (Chartered Accountant, CPA, ACCA, CIMA or similar)
• Strong knowledge of Chinese/ Hong Kong taxation law, US GAAP, and Sarbanes-Oxley
• Proactive and self-motivated, demonstrating initiative, creativity and willingness to implement improvements and ability to add value to the team
• Ability to build relationships at all levels of business, both internally and externally
• Strong numerical, analytical and problem solving skills to generate information that provides sound business decisions
• Excellent organisational and time management skills – ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritise
• Prior professional experience in both China and Hong Kong
• Fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese

What's on offer:

• A competitive base salary and benefits structure
• Opportunity to work in an enterprising environment where you can accelerate your career growth
• Future opportunities for both domestic and international opportunities
• A global culture, with a strong focus on learning and development