Finance Lead
Job ID
175393
Posted
18-Jul-2024
Service line
GWS Segment
Role type
Full-time
Areas of Interest
Accounting/Finance
Location(s)
London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland


Job Title:
Finance Lead
Reports to: Finance Contract Manager


Location:
London, UK
Job Purpose:
To produce excellent Client Reporting and provide excellent financial support to the Account/Portfolio (Finance Contract Manager and their operational teams), through added value financial analysis and valued input to the operational team.
Job

Responsibilities:

Client Finance
-Develop strong relationships with both the Client operational and Client finance teams
-Understand the commercial model and enforce governance and compliance to support effective execution
-Produce Client reports and provide value add financial commentary in their portfolio
-Work with the Client to compile annual budgets & quarterly forecasts
-Working closely with operations and commercial team to identify all possible savings opportunities and ensure that financial targets are achieved
-Support collation of monthly accruals to Client finance teams
CBRE Finance
-Provide direct financial support and expertise to the account
-Provide added value financial commentary to support regular, standard financial reports
-Working closely with Finance Contract Manager to implement baseline and savings tracking reporting and analysis
-Provide ad-hoc support to Finance Contract Manager as required
-Working closely with the team to identify all possible savings opportunities and ensure that financial targets are achieved
-Support compilation of CBRE annual budgets & quarterly forecasts
-Ensure finance procedures are adhered to by operations team, and take corrective action / escalate where required
-Support in ad-hoc financial analysis and projects as required
Quality
-Policy and procedure compliance
-Understanding/familiarity with Power BI and TM1
-Support seamless management of multiple contracts
-Share best practice and innovation especially around contract terms
-Deliver on client expectations
People
-Build trusted relationships with client finance team
-Liaise with Contract Support teams around the contract
-Involve people and influence decisions
-CBRE culture and behaviours adopted
Qualifications
-Higher educational qualifications to 'A' level or degree (or equivalent)
-Part qualified or newly qualified CCAB accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) (desirable)
Skills
-Excellent PC based skills, with experience in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook - intermediate to advance level skills are essential (lookups and pivots essential)
-Highly numerate
-Organised and open to new ways of working to challenge inefficiencies
-Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, and able to communicate with people at all levels across the account and develop effective relationships at all levels
Experience
-Working in an environment where delivering financial information within tight timescales is a pre-requisite
-Reporting in a complex multi-country, multi-divisional, service business (Industry experience) including financial planning and contracts management
-Providing senior management with financial results and analysis
-Demonstrable experience working with complex financial and operational information systems and controls in a large business that provides consistent and reliable information
-Focus on strong focus on customer service
-Previous experience of a customer-facing role using operating systems along with financial / accounting experience would be an advantage (desirable)
-Presentation skills to effectively communicate ideas and results to senior stakeholders (desirable)
Aptitude
-The successful candidate will be able to exercise an attention to detail which will be paramount to delivering the required job performance levels
-Self-motivated, reliable & flexible team player, who is able to work on own initiative.
-Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently
-Calm manner, able to work under pressure and with changing demands and priorities
-Excellent organisational skills who is Results/ task orientated, with attention to detail and accuracy
Circumstances
-The individual must be willing to undertake travel quarterly to Contract Support site
CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)