Job Title: Finance Lead
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. Help manage and report on the GMP.
Job Responsibilities:
Client Finance
* Develop strong relationships with both the Client operational and Client finance teams
* Understand the commercial model (GMP) 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
* Achieve results within quality and time restraints across multiple locations and countries
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 + Account Manager to manage the GMP and all costs associated
* Report monthly on actual figures and support in the reconciliation of the GMP
* Provide ad-hoc support to Finance 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
Qualifications
* Higher educational qualifications to ‘A’ level or degree (or equivalent)
* Part qualified or newly qualified CCAB accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) (desirable)
Experience
* Working in an environment where delivering financial information within tight timescales is a pre-requisite
* Having experience on a GMP contract is desirable
* Reporting in a complex multi-country, multi-divisional, service business (Industry experience) including financial planning and contracts management
* Dealing with Forex in a multi-currency environment
* 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 such as Dynamics AX or Concept software along with financial / accounting experience would be an advantage (desirable)
* Presentation skills to effectively communicate ideas and results to senior stakeholders (desirable)