EMEA Finance Lead (Senior Finance Manager)

CBRE; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global real estate services firm is seeking an EMEA Finance Lead to manage finance strategies and operations. The role involves leading a team in budget preparation, forecasting, and reporting, ensuring financial policies are maintained. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree with 5-8 years of relevant experience in finance management and strong leadership skills, alongside proficiency in Microsoft Office. This position is full-time and based in various locations across England.

Qualifications

• 5 - 8 years of relevant experience in finance management.
• Experience in staff training, performance evaluation, and mentoring.
• Ability to manage sensitive information and performance expectations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the finance team and manage performance evaluations.
• Drive budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning processes.
• Prepare complex financial reports and present to senior management.

Skills

Leadership skills

Organizational skills

Microsoft Office proficiency

Financial calculations

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Overview

EMEA Finance Lead (Senior Finance Manager)

Job ID 238648

Posted 24-Sep-2025

Service line: GWS Segment

Role type: Full-time

Areas of Interest: Accounting/Finance

Location(s): Birmingham - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Brighton - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Bristol - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Leeds - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Liverpool - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Manchester - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

About the Role

About the Role: As a CBRE Finance Sr. Manager, you will manage a team responsible for producing all output associated with Finance Strategy and Operations, including the annual budget preparation, monthly forecasts, strategic planning, management reporting, and other special projects. This job is part of the Financial Strategy and Operations job function. They are responsible for maintaining accounting, financial, and reporting policies and controls.

What You’ll Do

• Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations and coaching. Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees.
• Coordinate and manage the team\'s daily activities. Establish work schedules, assign tasks, and cross-train staff. Set and track staff and department deadlines. Mentor and coach as needed.
• Drive the budgeting process, forecasting process, strategic planning process, and standard management reporting.
• Approve balance sheet account analysis, statement of cash flows and supporting schedules, and standard consolidated reporting packs.
• Review and approve all monthly journal entries.
• Produce a variety of complex routine and ad hoc financial reports, packages and pro forma analyses for senior management and planning unit.
• Implement research, development and preparation of accounting policy and procedures.
• Manage special projects and prepare presentations for management.
• Exchange and explain difficult information, conveys performance expectations, and handles sensitive issues.
• Influence parties of shared interests to reach agreement.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence parties of shared interests to reach an agreement.
• Apply knowledge of own discipline and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve day-to-day and moderately complex issues which may or may not be evident in existing systems and processes.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor\'s Degree preferred with 5 - 8 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
• Experience in the areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention is preferred.
• Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems.
• Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets with impacts on own job discipline, multiple job disciplines, and department.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Extensive organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.
• Intermediate math skills. Ability to calculate complicated figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculations.

CBRE GWS

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry\'s most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.

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