Grace Ramin

• Strategic Vision: Lead Finance Teams for the Global Design Collective and APAC Project Management (PJM) businesses, aligning financial strategies with organisational goals.
• Operational Excellence: Execute Global PJM Finance projects, driving operational efficiencies and cost savings.
• Collaborative Leadership: Provide financial and commercial insights by collaborating with Global and APAC Leadership, specialised Finance Teams, and cross-functional partners.
• Risk Management: Ensure business alignment on scorecards and metrics linked to strategic objectives.
• Innovative Solutions: Advise senior management on performance improvement and new opportunities.
• Empowering Others: Upskill and educate business clients on best practices for financial management.

Key Achievements:

• Successfully implemented policies and process improvements to reduce year-on-year AR Past Due across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
• Rolled out online training modules for PJM Finance and Non-Finance employees, fostering a growth mindset.
• Led a pivotal acquisition in Singapore and Australia within the first six months in the role.
• Turned around the financial performance of a Joint Venture through effective partnership, collaboration, process improvements, and strategic initiatives.
• Developed Finance training content and supported global teams in creating a PJM playbook for better consistency and standardisation.
• Led entity optimisation projects for operational efficiency, platform consolidations, and cost optimisation.
• Collaborated with FP&A to deliver data-driven financial insights through Power BI Dashboard reporting.

• Holistic Leadership: Led and managed CBRE’s Global Workplace Solutions business in Southeast Asia, covering FP&A, Commercial, Controllership, and business partnering.
• Strategic Turnaround: Drove the turnaround of underperforming enterprise accounts in partnership with business leaders.
• Value-driven pricing: Played an active role in pricing and reviewing client contracts to maximize shareholder returns.
• Informed Decision-Making: Provided SEA Leadership with quality insights for strategic decision-making.
• Structural Excellence: Defined finance team structure and scope of services for the division, SEA countries, and client accounts teams.

Key Achievements:

• Established new business setups in countries and implemented financial reporting structures for PJM Principal Contracting and Technical Services.
• Supported the Contract Support model rollout and led workshops on SEA pricing and commercial guidelines.
• Completed Indonesia business cases with a 5-year plan for principal contracting license applications.
• Established SEA Cost allocation and recharge methodologies, reducing tax costs to CBRE.
• Provided oversight on key APAC Industrial and Fintech Accounts domiciled in SEA.

• Strategic Leadership: Managed accounts payable, accounts receivable, treasury, and financial reporting for Facilities Management and Portfolio Services clients across the Asia Pacific.
• Best Practices Development: Developed and implemented Client Accounting policies and procedures.
• Platform Implementation: Led the implementation of accounting platforms and supported transition for new clients.
• Due Diligence and Transition: Conducted finance due diligence and transition exercises for new, renewed, and expanded accounts.
• Performance Metrics: Introduced performance and KPI deliverable metrics to clients during the rollout of client accounting platforms.
• Stakeholder Management: Served as the single point of contact for GWS Hub Leaders, Alliance Directors, and country leads on client account-related issues.
• Offshoring Success: Successfully orchestrated an offshoring initiative, transferring 40 roles from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur with meticulously documented processes. Additionally, managed workforce transitions, redeploying 80% of the Singapore team while hiring replacements in Kuala Lumpur. The KL team’s exceptional performance over the next 12 months marked this project as CBRE’s most successful to date