Finance Analyst

CBRE Enterprise EMEA; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a financial management professional to join their dynamic team in London. This role involves providing financial governance across various client accounts, ensuring compliance with financial procedures, and delivering insightful analysis to support operational excellence. You will engage with multiple stakeholders, manage complex budgets, and drive financial performance while adhering to tight deadlines. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a passion for financial management, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a collaborative setting, working closely with both internal teams and clients to achieve financial targets.

Qualifications

• Part or newly qualified accountant with strong Excel skills.
• Experience in financial reporting and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial support and manage monthly budget processes.
• Prepare client billing and ensure adherence to contractual requirements.
• Build relationships with operations and support teams.

Skills

Financial Reporting

Stakeholder Engagement

Budget Preparation

Financial Analysis

Excel

PeopleSoft

Iscala

Presentation Skills

Education

Part or Newly Qualified Accountant

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

To provide financial management and governance for the client account across a number of countries in the Europe region. Ensuring appropriate and adequate financial management and controls to meet all Client and CBRE requirements.

As a key member of the finance team, you will actively drive the region to ensure it meets the targets set through exceptional Client and CBRE operational team engagement and service.

Specific areas of focus will include financial reporting (both client and internal), month end preparation, client billing, budget preparation, quarterly reforecasting, and ongoing analysis as required. This role requires excellent Operational stakeholder engagement skills, whilst balancing the demands of ongoing corporate responsibilities.

Working within the financial contractual requirements and meeting all deadlines will be a key deliverable of the role.

Key Tasks:

CBRE Finance Responsibilities

• Provide direct financial support and expertise to the account
• Support the Senior Finance Manager (Europe) and other Finance Managers on the account with all month end processing and control
• Manage the preparation of the monthly budget trackers and ensure all data is uploaded correctly into relevant reporting tools in accordance with month end timing
• Provide commentary on all monthly and year-to-date actual variances to budget
• Manage all balance sheet preparation and reviews in line with control requirements
• Manage the preparation of client billing in line with contractual arrangements
• Manage the Open PO and Invoice Pool process with the relevant Contract Support team
• Support the preparation of CBRE annual budgets & ongoing forecast routines
• Support the financial governance & control environment that supports the introduction of a new commercial model on the account
• Ensure finance procedures are adhered to by the Operations team and take corrective action / escalate where required
• Provide ad-hoc support to Finance & Contract Support teams as required
• Support in ad-hoc financial analysis and projects as required

Client Finance Responsibilities

• Understand the new commercial model and enforce governance and compliance to support effective execution
• Prepare the monthly billing and monthly accruals for the client ensuring adherence to contractual timing and quality
• Prepare the monthly client reporting and analysis
• Support the preparation of annual client budgets & quarterly forecast routines
• Work closely with Operations teams to identify potential savings opportunities and ensure that financial targets are achieved
• Manage the change request process for all business scope changes working closely with Operations to report accurate monthly data
• Achieve results within quality and agreed timeframes

People

• Build trusted relationships with Account Operations, Contract Support Teams, and the Account Finance Teams
• Support with Client relationships and engagement as required
• Involve people and influence decisions
• Ensure adherence to the company and account culture, behaviours, and values

Person Specification:

• Part or newly qualified accountant
• Highly computer literate, with extensive experience in Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Intermediate to advanced level Excel skills are essential (lookups and pivots essential)
• Complex commercial models with KPI reporting
• Experience of PeopleSoft & Iscala
• Working in an environment where delivering financial information within tight timescales is a pre-requisite
• 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
• Familiar with a Cost-plus commercial model
• Presentation skills to effectively communicate ideas and results to senior stakeholders