We are looking for a high-caliber Finance Manager to lead and strengthen the finance and accounting operations of a fast-growing Philippine business group in the real estate services and flexible workspace industry.
This is a critical leadership role for a hands-on finance operator who thrives in building structure, enforcing discipline, improving controls, and driving reporting accuracy across multiple business entities.
If you are the kind of finance leader who values integrity, ownership, operational excellence, and building strong teams, not just preparing reports, we’d like to speak with you.
About the Role
You will be the key finance operations leader responsible for ensuring that the organization’s financial engine runs accurately, efficiently, and with strong governance.
This role goes beyond accounting execution. You will establish discipline, improve systems, enforce controls, and lead a growing finance team through the next stage of scale.
You will oversee accounting, financial reporting, compliance, treasury coordination, and internal controls across multiple entities and subsidiaries.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting & Close Management
- Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close process
- Ensure timely and accurate preparation of financial statements and management reports
- Review financial reporting across multiple entities for completeness, accuracy, and consistency
- Ensure reconciliations are completed properly and on schedule
- Identify and resolve reporting gaps, anomalies, and process weaknesses
Compliance & Tax Governance
- Ensure timely and accurate compliance with all statutory and regulatory obligations
- Oversee tax filing, remittance, and compliance including:
- VAT
- Withholding Taxes
- Income Tax
- Payroll-related statutory obligations
- Coordinate with external auditors, tax consultants, and regulators as needed
- Drive a zero-penalty compliance culture
Internal Controls & Process Excellence
- Strengthen and enforce internal controls across finance workflows
- Design and improve SOPs, approval workflows, and financial governance processes
- Ensure adherence to company policies and delegated authority frameworks
- Proactively identify control gaps and implement corrective measures
Treasury & Cash Governance
- Oversee cash monitoring, payment governance, and treasury coordination
- Ensure disbursement controls and cash management discipline
- Support management visibility on collections, receivables, and cash position
Team Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop the finance and accounting team
- Build a culture of accountability, ownership, integrity, and operational discipline
- Improve productivity, capability, and execution standards within the team
- Partner cross-functionally with leadership, operations, HR, and business units
Systems & Continuous Improvement
- Support ERP / finance systems implementation and process automation initiatives
- Drive efficiency improvements and scalable finance operating practices
We are looking for a strong operator, not just a technical accountant.
Required Qualifications
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- 5+ years of progressive finance/accounting experience
- 3+ years in a leadership role managing finance/accounting teams
- With strong experience in:
- Financial reporting
- Multi-entity accounting
- Tax compliance
- Internal controls
- Audit management
- Treasury governance
- Process improvement
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in one or more of the following industries is highly preferred:
- Real Estate
- Property Services
- Leasing
- Coworking / Flexible Workspace
- Professional Services
- Hospitality
- Multi-branch service businesses
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Big 4 audit background
- CMA
- CIA
- ERP implementation experience
- Strong management reporting / FP&A capability
What Success Looks Like
Within this role, success means:
- Financial reports are consistently accurate and timely
- Tax and statutory obligations are submitted without penalties
- Internal controls are enforced without exception leakage
- Finance operations run with discipline and predictability
- Leadership has clear visibility into financial performance and cash position
- The finance team operates with strong accountability and professionalism
What We Value
We care deeply about character as much as capability.
We’re looking for someone with:
- Integrity: Does the right thing even when inconvenient
- Ownership: Takes accountability, not excuses
- Discipline: Builds systems and follows through
- Leadership: Can elevate team standards
- Commercial awareness: Understands business, not just debits and credits
- Professional backbone: Can uphold controls respectfully but firmly
Compensation
Competitive compensation package commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Why Join Us?
This is an opportunity to take ownership of the finance operating backbone of a growing multi-entity business and help shape the next phase of scale.
If you enjoy building structure, solving operational complexity, and leading finance with high standards, we’d love to hear from you.
Location: Metro Manila (Full Onsite)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Industry: Real Estate Services / Professional Services
