Headcount Approval Manager, Real Estate Transactions (EMEA and APAC)
Location: Madrid, Spain
Type: On-site, Full time
Job Requisition ID: REQ400440
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About the role
We are seeking a Headcount Approval Manager to join JLL and a high-performing workplace strategy team responsible for liaising with business finance leaders in support of a large volume and variety of real estate transactions that create enterprise value for one of JLL's largest global technology clients.
The role will support a high-performing, multi-disciplinary team tasked with launching, pursuing, and successfully securing transaction-related headcount approvals for global real estate transactions.
This position calls for a highly energetic professional with excellent communication, organization, and client relationship management skills.
You must be a self-starter, ambitious, and thrive on change.
Critical responsibilities include (but are not limited to): Establishing a strong and trusted relationship with the client.Working with the client and account leaders to understand business and real estate strategies and execute on those objectives.Supporting the Workplace Strategy team in securing forecasted headcount (HC) approvals required for real estate transactions.Owning the end-to-end HC approval process with a focus on efficiently driving HC approvals to completion.Establishing strong working relationships with Workplace Strategists / Space Planning Managers and Finance points of contact (POCs) in business orgs to facilitate data gathering and validation of forecasted HC, real estate transaction strategy, and related spend.Coordinating with Transaction Managers (TM) and leveraging the TM workflow management tool to monitor the revolving pipeline of HC-driven real estate transactions.Obtaining and validating HC data with business orgs for individual real estate transactions preparing for spend approval.Creating and launching HC approvals in the approval tool with the appropriate Finance POCs in the approval chain.Monitoring approval chains, facilitating Q&A, identifying blockers, and escalating as appropriate.Ensuring all launched approvals are completed within expected cycle times.Being extremely proactive and responsive."Raising the Bar"
Leveraging, inventing, and simplifying best practices, including continuous improvement of processes, tools, and templates.
Providing actionable advice on mitigation of anticipated risks/taking advantage of opportunities.
Proactively identifying process inefficiencies, formulating and executing on implementation plans, followed by tracking and demonstrating results.
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