Finance Manager Growth

Job Purpose

This newly created role is to set the right finance foundations for our partnership and acquisitions growth. You will be in an unique position to make an impact within IWG on how to integrate, operationalise partnerships with our network development team.

You will interact with key stakeholders such as the Chief Strategy Officer and his Leadership team, Regional CEOs and the Legal Team as well as being representing IWG with external partners.

You will be able to deal externally with our broad partner landscape in an entrepreneurial environment and become their trusted advisor of IWG Finance organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement a scalable service model across our Finance organisation to execute on our growth strategy through our partnership and acquisitions model with the view of building a Self Service Partner reporting platform (ultimately it could drive additional IWG Revenue) by working with our Global Shared Service Centre team.


• Monitor and report on Finance service levels to CFO and his leadership team.  


• Be the Business partner of our Chief Strategy Officer and his leadership team and report on


• Work with the GSC to ensure the right accounting treatment of each type of partnership.


• Be the PoC for any future acquisitions for Legal, the M&A team and Finance driving integration across the financial end to end process.


• Ensure reporting and visibility to both the CFO and the Business stakeholders.


• Ensure Partner reporting and escalations management and resolution. Be the voice of IWG Finance for the external partners.

Partner reporting example would include:

• everything shared with potential partners (revenues, costs, capex).


• Collecting set up fees


• Oversight of fitout spend


• Managing furniture (and wider) rental piece, which I suspect is about to become problematic


• Owning reporting back to partners


• Payments & bad debts

Required Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• A min of 5/7 Years experience and leadership visibility at senior level


• Qualified accountant or equivalent (ACA, ACCA and/or CIMA)


• Experience to have worked in a global finance environment and work with a Shared Service center would be an advantage.

About the company

IWG has been at the forefront of flexible working for more than 30 years. With over 3,500 locations around the globe, spanning brands including Regus, Spaces, Signature and HQ, we have made it possible for businesses of all sizes to make the transition to hybrid working, empowering employees to work wherever and whenever is most convenient.

We help more than 8 million people and their businesses to work more productively, supported by a choice of professional, inspiring and collaborative workspaces, communities and services.

As the world’s leading provider of hybrid work solutions, with four times the number of locations compared to its nearest competitor, IWG is already working with over 80% of the Fortune 500 and counts businesses including Amazon, Netflix, EY and Uber amongst its customers.

Companies of all sizes are shifting to flexible working to lower costs, improve employee retention and lower their carbon emissions. The flexible workspace is expected to grow by 600% by 2023, when 30% of all office space will be hybrid. We are growing our network faster than ever to keep up with demand from customers as we work towards our goal of reaching 30,000 centres.

Carbon Neutral Workplaces
IWG’s purpose of helping everyone have a great day at work, while protecting people and the planet is at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to supply all of our customers worldwide with carbon neutral workplaces, and we have a strong climate action plan in place to help us achieve our objective of Net Zero emissions by 2040.

Leading Employer Award
IWG is proud to be the recipient of a Leading Employer Award in both 2022 and 2023. Awarded exclusively to the top 1% of employers, the accolade is testament to our diverse global workforce and the role everyone plays in bringing our purpose, culture and values to life, every single day. 

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