Client Accounts & VAT Reporting Specialist (Hybrid, Glasgow)

CBRE Group, Inc.; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE Group, Inc. in Glasgow is seeking a Real Estate Accounting Services professional to deliver complex reporting for a portfolio of clients. You will be the main client contact for queries and support, and coordinate with internal teams to produce timely statutory accounts and VAT returns.

The role requires attention to detail, strong analytical ability, and the capacity to work under tight deadlines within a hybrid Glasgow office environment.

Qualifications

• ACCA/CIMA preferred (or the ambition to work toward)
• Experience in a professional financial services environment
• Excellent and technical understanding of trial balance
• Solid understanding of VAT reporting
• Stakeholder management and client relationship management
• Key analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving
• Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines
• Ability to make decisions
• Excellent communication skills
• Numerical and analytically minded

Responsibilities

• Primary point of contact for client group dealing with queries and providing support
• Internal primary point of contact for Surveying and Management Services group; working closely with colleagues to provide clients with exceptional outcomes
• Delivery of bespoke reporting to internal or external stakeholders in line with internal or contractual KPIS
• Delivery of full statutory accounts
• Delivery of VAT reporting
• Preparation of complex financial Journals
• Review of Trial Balance and corrective actions
• Preparation of Reconciliations
• Preparation of VAT returns to HMRC
• Preparation of IPD returns
• Reconciling clients' funds and ensuring cash is paid over to clients per procedures
• Acting as trusted advisor, guiding clients on systems and processes
• Coordination and resolution of funding issues across portfolio
• Compliance with CBRE ISAE3402 and client controls
• Reviewing transition packs and liaising with REAS to provide outcomes
• Attending client and internal meetings
• Review and approval of team member work prior to submission
• Passing knowledge to new staff
• Support re-engineering and efficiencies across teams

Skills

Stakeholder management

Client relationship mgmt

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Decision making

Communication skills

Numerical skills

Education

ACCA/CIMA preferred

Job description

CBRE Group, Inc. in Glasgow is seeking a Real Estate Accounting Services professional to deliver complex reporting for a portfolio of clients. You will be the main client contact for queries and support, and coordinate with internal teams to produce timely statutory accounts and VAT returns.

The role requires attention to detail, strong analytical ability, and the capacity to work under tight deadlines within a hybrid Glasgow office environment.