Finance Director, Global FP&A

JLL • Chicago, IL

21h • $145,000 - $175,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Finance Director, Global FP&A role focuses on working capital across JLL’s segments and countries. The position oversees how working capital is measured, planned, reviewed, and improved, including DSO, DPO, unbilled receivables, deferred revenue, pass-through and client-fund balances, and cash conversion. It supports annual target setting, monthly forecast and leadership reviews, improvement initiatives, reporting and dashboards, and partnership with Treasury and segment teams.

The role owns enterprise working-capital analysis and driver-based modeling for the rolling forecast, annual operating plan, and free cash flow walk. It leads the monthly free cash flow forecasting process and the design and implementation of a technology solution for free cash flow forecasting, including requirements, data sources, forecast logic, business case, build, and adoption.

The position sets and governs working-capital targets and metric standards, tracks performance and explains variances to the CFO and Head of Global FP&A. It prepares working-capital reporting for leadership, CFO forecast outlooks, and quarterly board and investor materials; manages monthly reviews with segment finance leaders; and coordinates actions when performance is off plan.

The Finance Director also builds and prioritizes initiatives to improve working capital, sponsors cross-functional projects, partners with Treasury on liquidity and financing matters, and works with segment finance and operating leaders to identify opportunities and assess cash and P&L trade-offs. The role is based on-site in Chicago, Illinois.

Requirements

• Significant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, treasury, or working-capital management in a large, multi-country organization.
• Management experience leading a team.
• Deep understanding of working-capital mechanics, including receivables, payables, unbilled and deferred balances, pass-through and client-fund arrangements, and the effects of contract and billing structures.
• Track record of setting enterprise- or segment-level financial targets and operating a cadence that holds senior leaders accountable.
• Experience leading cross-functional improvement initiatives from diagnosis through delivery with measurable cash results.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills.
• Experience specifying and using enterprise data platforms and BI tools, such as Databricks, Power BI, or equivalent, in partnership with a data or analytics team.
• Clear, direct communication skills, including the ability to explain and defend complex financial analysis to CFOs, segment leadership, or the board.
• Ability to operate with ambiguity and define standards in a newly formed remit.
• Familiarity with Treasury instruments relevant to working capital, such as supply chain finance, receivables financing, and in-house banking.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree, professional qualification (CPA, CFA, CTP, ACA, ACCA, or CIMA), or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise view of working capital, analyzing DSO, DPO, unbilled receivables, deferred revenue, pass-through and client-fund balances, and cash conversion by segment, business line, region, and major client.
• Explain working-capital movements by distinguishing structural drivers from operational drivers.
• Build and maintain driver-based working-capital models for the rolling forecast, annual operating plan, and free cash flow walk.
• Run the monthly free cash flow forecasting process, including gathering segment inputs, challenging assumptions, consolidating results, and explaining changes against prior forecast, plan, and prior year.
• Lead the design and development of a technology solution for free cash flow forecasting, from requirements and business case through build and adoption.
• Implement driver-based forecasts that connect working-capital assumptions to cash outcomes and standardize segment submissions and reviews.
• Improve forecast accuracy by tracking actual variances, identifying model or input issues, and addressing gaps.
• Set annual enterprise and segment targets for DSO, DPO, and net working capital as part of the AOP, reconciling targets to the free cash flow plan and negotiating them with segment CFOs.
• Define company-wide metric standards, including definitions, calculation methods, data sources, and cut-offs; recommend policy and procedure changes when needed.
• Track actual performance against targets and own variance explanations to the CFO and Head of Global FP&A.
• Design and lead monthly working-capital reviews with segment CFOs and finance leaders, covering results, trends, root causes, actions, and owners.
• Prepare consolidated working-capital content for CFO forecast outlooks and quarterly board and investor materials.
• Escalate off-plan performance, diagnose issues, agree recovery actions, and hold owners accountable to deadlines.
• Partner with FP&A analytics and data science teams to develop working-capital dashboards and standard reporting on the enterprise data platform.
• Define data requirements, resolve source data-quality issues, and replace manual reporting with governed reporting.
• Build and prioritize working-capital initiatives with quantified cash impacts and assigned owners.
• Lead or sponsor cross-functional initiatives from business case through delivery with segment finance, billing and collections operations, procurement, and JLL Technologies.
• Partner with Global Treasury on working capital and liquidity, cash-forecasting inputs, supply chain finance, receivables financing, payment timing, and treatment of client funds and pass-through balances.
• Work with segment finance and operating leaders to identify improvement opportunities, including contract structures, pricing and payment terms, and billing-model changes, and quantify cash and P&L trade-offs.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with matching company contributions
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care
• Paid parental leave at 100% of salary
• Paid time off and company holidays
• Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay
• Discretionary bonus subject to individual and company performance; not guaranteed

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director